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Contents November 2013 | Vol. xx, No. 11

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The story begins

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Lady in red

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Land that I love

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Farm to table

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Live and learn

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Sunday supper

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Full circle First Steps celebrates 10 years of Vino on the Veranda

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The cat’s pajamas

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Dinner with a view

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Through the years

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Down by the river

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Born and raised

First Lady’s Luncheon celebrates Tennessee agriculture

Council on Aging presents the Sage Awards

The Horticultural Society hosts a stunning alfresco dinner at Cheekwood

Belmont Mansion brings back the roaring ‘20s

Greenways for Nashville supporters dine on the Shelby Street Bridge

Cumberland Heights welcomes Kenny Rogers to the Ryman

Tennessee’s natural beauty is on display at River Swing

The Belcourt’s iNDie Festival applauds all things Nashville

Southern Festival of Books kicks off with Authors in the Round

The Heritage Ball turns 40 and looks better than ever!

The perfect autumn celebration at Once in a Blue Moon

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A joyous fête Eat, drink and eat some more Music City Eats welcomes top chefs and musical talents

New restaurant roundup A look at the new kids on Nashville’s culinary block

8 In our words Epicurean adventures 10 Behind the scenes Chef, musician, entertainer extraordinaire—Chef Nick Pellegrino, Mangia

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Briefs

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Open doors

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Nuptials

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Taking vows

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Arts and galleries

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Deconstructing the dish: Cheater Chef

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This just in

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Backstory

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On the circuit

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Pencil in

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Nretrospect

News, rumors & propaganda

Epicurean and entertaining tips

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Holiday dinner party styled by Unlikely Bunch. Food prepared by Molly Martin of The Food Company. Photographed by Eric England at the home of Ruthie Lindsey (ruthielindseydesign.com). Check out our Joyous Fête feature beginning on page 60 for epicurean and holiday entertaining tips.

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Latest Nashville weddings

Coleman vows

Setting the table

Upcoming performing and visual arts

Creamy, corny comfort

Stix, no stones

Estate of grace

The heart of Nashville’s social season

Calendar of November events

This, that and all the other things

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IN OUR WORDS

Epicurean adventures Eating our way through Nashville

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s it just me, or is this a really good time for food? This is only the second year for our Epicurean and Entertaining issue, and it’s quickly becoming one of our favorites. The Nashville food scene is one that we were all hungry—pun intended—to pursue. So much has happened and is about to happen since our last issue.

If you prefer to entertain at home, our Joyous Fête section brings you suggestions for throwing your own holiday party.

A few of our foodie friends and professional artisans stepped in to show how to create a perfect cheese plate, stock a bar, personalize a winter supper and create the

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If you’d rather go out, we show you what’s happening on the restaurant scene! In the next couple of months, at least seven new restaurants are opening or have opened by press time. We tracked down the chefs for 404, Josephine, Music City Tippler, Cherry Street, Tree House, The Farm House and Pinewood Social and tried their signature dishes. Wonderful! And let’s not forget our old favorites. Chefs in Nashville’s long established favorites are upping their game and worth a visit. Whatever you decide, Nashville’s gastronomic renaissance is worth experiencing.

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BEHIND THE SCENES

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hef Nick Pellegrino wants to entertain you. Yes, he wants to serve you a spectacular Italian meal, but that’s not all he wants to do. He wants you to leave his dinners fed, satisfied and thoroughly entertained.

Nick moved to Nashville in 1994 to pursue a songwriting career. Having learned how to cook from a friend who had attended the Culinary Institute, he always made ends meet with jobs in the food industry. Three years ago at a New Year’s Eve party, he came up with an idea for combining his two loves, food and music. He took the plan to his friend Tim Ness, the owner of Cool Café in Franklin, wanting to know if it was a good idea. Two months later, Mangia Nashville served its first pop-up dinner to a small group of Nick and Tim’s friends. Before he knew it, Nick had every Friday for the next three

months booked solid, and eventually he added a Saturday night meal.

While 120 guests are whetting their palates with deep-fried green olives, lemon risotto cakes and beef short rib Bolognese, the staff provides the entertainment. Waiters sing, a professional ballroom dancer leads Nick in the mambo and before the entrée, guests are encouraged to get up and dance off some of those calories. After the dancing, Nick serves up his famous lemon rosemary chicken along with other seasonal entrées, and he sends everyone home with a paper bag full of zeppoles, deep-fried Italian donuts filled with ricotta cheese.

Nick has finally found his perfect combination of his two passions and he wants you to share in the fun. So if you’re looking for more than just a good Italian dinner, reserve your spot to let Nick entertain you at Mangia Nashville.

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Wesley is a Nashville native who does most of her best writing in her journal. But like any good writer, she is also working on a novel.

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Aging gracefully

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he Council on Aging of Greater Nashville celebrated its forthcoming 22nd annual Sage Awards recently at a Patrons Reception sponsored by Saint Thomas Health at the Hutton Hotel. Don’t let the COA Award name fool you, these award winners are not only healthy and wise, they are still actively engaged community leaders who have demonstrated no penchant for slowing down!

The Sage Awards, presented each year since 1992, are given to older adults who have made outstanding contributions to the well-being of Middle Tennessee citizens through a lifetime commitment of working to improve the quality of life in their communities. This year’s recipients are well-known, exemplary individuals who not only embody the very

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as presenting sponsor chair, Rebecca Climer, who said: “We wanted this night to be all about the Sage Award recipients.” Indeed, it was.

Some of the many notables in attendance were Joe Binkley, Jim Shulman, Dick Ragsdale, Judy Given, Cathy Cate Sullivan, Charlie Cardwell, Nancy Russell, Matt Shaw, Emily James, Jonathan Barnes, Lee Fairbend, James Powers and Audrey Hall.

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learly, the fall season has arrived in Nashville. Based on the attire of the 2014 Ballet Ball committee members at their cocktail chic KickOff party—held at the spectacular home of Patsy and Bob Weigel who hosted the swanky affair along with Judith and Richard Bracken— it was time to pull out the festive frocks. Besides the lovely en-pointe ballerinas gracing the front entrance, Ballet Ball co-chairs Suann Davis and Sarah Reisner were both there, looking spectacular in shimmery metallic gold and silver—reflecting the fact that this year is, after all, the Ball’s silver anniversary.

It was just a lovely affair with everyone dressed to the nines in sophisticated jewel tones of fall with the requisite sparkle of metal sprinkled throughout the rooms. Sandra Lipman wore a navy and black peplum sheath while Mary Spalding looked chic in a deep pink high/low number.

Lucie Carroll looked elegant in black, fresh from her stint as an extra on an episode of the television series, Nashville, (well, at least her feet were filmed stomping divots at the recent Chukkers for Charity and, hopefully, won’t be left on the cutting room floor).

Tickling the ivories was everyone’s favorite, Pat Patrick, along with his Trio performing live musical entertainment. There was just a hint of excitement in the air, especially when Mark O’Bryan, owner of The Tulip

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Kudos to George Cate, Jr., Senator Douglas Henry, Larry Keeton and Lois Orr Winston, this year’s award recipients, all of whom seemed to be having a grand time celebrating with friends and family. Community leaders were literally everywhere mixing and mingling as well as enjoying the bounty of food stations prepared by the catering department at the Hutton. The fried green tomatoes were a definite hit, along with the barbecued brisket and Asian noodle bowl. But, the dessert of waffles and ice cream drizzled with honey and a sprinkling of chocolate chips, had the attendees queueing up for seconds! The reception, which was short and sweet, was long on action, accolades and attention to detail Co-chair Suann Davis, thanks to the superb efforts Paul Vasterling, of Nell Ann Crowe, the Co-chair Sarah Reisner event chair, and Saint Thom-

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Tree and event planner Bruce Pittman unveiled their grand vision for the 2014 version of the Ball.

Dani Kates provided the passed hors d’œuvres and buffet meal of smoked Gouda pimento cheese on corncakes with bacon jam, open face tomato bites, truffled shiitake mushroom tarts, crab cakes and tenderloin of beef on homemade rolls with sweet onion jam. A highlight of the evening was the reveal of the incredible silver anniversary invitations which former BB chair Jay Joyner had printed on special paper hand-selected by local calligrapher Val Cole during a recent trip to an Italian paper factory on the island of Capri.

There is just something wonderfully collegial about this enthusiastic group: once you get involved in Ballet Ball, you’re there forever. Some of the loyal stalwarts in attendance included Nancy Cheadle, Sutton Lipman Costanza, Clare Armistead, Julie Boehm, Elizabeth and Lynn Greer, Kindy Hensler, Jennifer Puryear, Elaina and Ronnie Scott, Paul Vasterling, Sara Broun and Erin Mills.

Sackley, Scott Carey, Leah Logue and John Foley was enjoying the beautiful weather on the patio, sampling hors d’œuvres and delicious African wine.

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ince it opened as an art gallery in the burgeoning 12South neighborhood over 10 years ago, Rumours has always shown daring, eclectic art that you won’t find anywhere else in Nashville. Now renowned as an excellent restaurant and wine bar, Rumours calls the Gulch home, and they recently hosted a benefit for Exile International featuring live music and the sale of original African art and jewelry handmade by war survivors.

Exile International, founded in 2008 by Nashvillian Bethany Haley, provides art therapy and rehabilitative care to former child soldiers.

The walls of Rumours were covered by the beautiful paintings made by these children, most of them aged 12 to 14 years old. Tables offering beautiful and affordable handmade jewelry flanked the private dining room, giv-

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gry. With libations from The Wine Chap, Von Schleinitz Wines and Yazoo Brewing Company, nobody left thirsty, either.

The evening was a celebration of the diversity in Nashville, strengthened through our network of sister cities—Belfast, Northern Ireland; Caen, France; Edmonton, Canada; Magdeburg, Germany; Mendoza, Argentina and Taiyuan, China—and the relationships we’ve built with them throughout the years. When attendees weren’t enjoying the options from the internationally-themed food stations or perusing auction items for exciting exotic getaways, they were making new friends and catching up with old ones.

Heather Cunningham, the executive director of Sister Cities, was excited to honor World of Friendship Honorary Chairman Jimmy Webb, explaining that Jenn McCarthy, John Foley, Christy Shuff as past president of the organization, he’s ing attendees the chance to sip and been instrumental in founding, buildshop in between musical performancing and expanding partnerships with es from Maggie Glasgow, Rebecca our sister cities. Heather was also exMoreland, Jason White, Heather cited to welcome delegates from AusRigdon and Vince Guard. tralia and Germany who are currently A lively crowd including Rumours interning at the Martha O’Bryan Cenowners Christy Shuff, Jenn Mcter and Hillsboro High School, citing Carthy and Tammy Jacobs, Vanda them as shining examples of the sucCampbell, Donna Guest, Lenore cessful exchange program.

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ou may think that it’s impossible to make the Frist Center for the Visual Arts more beautiful, but when the stately halls are filled with beautiful girls wearing Karen Hendrix’s stunning gowns, the impossible has been achieved. For An Evening Like No Other, Karen Hendrix debuted pieces from her 2014 Red Carpet Collection in a fashion show, accenting her breathtaking designs with acclaimed milliner Alain Patterson’s equally breathtaking hats and fascinators, fresh from his Le Jardin de Julia collection.

We were thrilled to chat with Karen—whose designs have been featured in Brides and Martha Stewart Weddings, among others—who was

the event, she discovered that Kimberly’s fiancé was a lieutenant officer in Afghanistan.

Beautiful dresses, a worthy cause, and an upcoming wedding to celebrate? Sounds like an evening like no other to us.

Ladies of influence

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he YWCA’s Academy for Women of Achievement Awards dinner is where Lauren Brisky, Vera Stevens Chatman, Becky Harrell, Beth Harwell, Hope Stringer, Hedy Weinberg and Brenda Wynn will all be honored for their contributions to our community and to the empowerment of women. But, the recent Patrons Party was all about the first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award recipient: the incomparable Jane Eskind. “In honor of the 115th birthday of the YWCA, we decided to salute Jane Eskind, a true leader among women, along with our honorees. Tonight is for Jane,” said co-chairs Beth Fortune and Rita Mitchell.

Interior designer Marjorie Feltus-Hawkins opened her lovely home to the more than 150 attendees, who enjoyed a bountiful buffet of rosemary garlic beef tenderloin, jerk pork tenderloin, mini crab cakes, Thai chicken satay and caramelized pear and goat cheese tarts, created by Traci Denny’s Dining by Design. There was also a video showcasing Kimberly Ramsey, Karen Hendrix Jane’s numerous accomplishments, including being the first woman in Tennessee to hold a honored to partner with the Woundstatewide political office. It was aped Warrior Project for this event. The propriate that honoree Beth Harwell Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofwas there, too, as she is the state’s first it with a mission to foster a successfemale Speaker of the House of Repreful and well-adjusted generation of sentatives, who surely considers Jane wounded service members through a mentor though they’ve operated on programs and services to meet the opposite sides of the political aisle. needs of injured veterans, is close to The verandah of Marjorie’s home the heart of Alain and his godson, proved to be the ideal gathering spot Duran Bunch. for these influential ladies, many of Duran, a former international whom seemed enchanted by the sigmodel and veteran, took riveting nature drink of fruit lemonade, served photos when he was in Afghanistan, both with vodka and without. YWCA a selection of which were displayed Executive Director Pat Shea remiat the Frist for Karen’s show. We also nisced with husband, John and with met one of Karen’s brides, Kimberly Marjorie about her 50th birthday celRamsey, who was modeling Karen’s ebration, which was held in that very incredible “Egypt” dress. In a beautisame festive place. Hershell Warren, ful twist of happenstance, when Karretired but still active on the YWCA en asked Kimberly to participate in board, chuckled knowingly as he had been to many events on that patio as well, including Marjorie’s annual après Steeplechase gathering and many holiday affairs. That Marjorie is certainly an Nfocus kind of girl!

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or this year’s Music and Masterpieces fundraiser, the only thing that could compete with the beautiful evening outside was the beautiful art inside Brett James and Sandy Cornelius’ barn. During the Patrons Party that kicked off the evening of music, food and fun, dedicated supporters of the Thisbe and Noah Scott

We spotted Jay and Katherine Williams, Brad and Tonya Lance, Dabney Day, Richie and Carrie Duborg, Elizabeth Humphreys, Libby Stein, Paige Hastings, Liz Cook, Julie Boswell and Kevin Campbell, Elizabeth McCrary, Maggie Jackson, Carrie McLaren, Adrienne and Richard McRae, Anne and David Trainer, and foundation founders Laurian and John Scott with John’s parents, Gwin and Winn Scott.

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f you’ve yet to attend an event at The Grange at Hidden Valley Farm you must encourage your crowd to schedule a soirée at this rustically elegant local getaway, conveniently located just a mile down River Road off Charlotte Avenue. That’s exactly what the Go Red for Women Healthy Heart folks did on a recent Thursday night. Both top tier donors—the allmale Red Tie Society, and their the female cohorts, the Circle of Red—were recognized alongside the sponsors for their commitment in fighting heart disease with their time, talents and tithes. Their grand campaign event, the GRW luncheon, is set for April of next year.

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of lemon Verbena applesauce. Each course was created from the freshest of ingredients, all sourced right on the property from Sylvia Ganier’s farm.

Among those enjoying the refreshingly different and interactive party agenda were Haden Wiley, Bill Anderson, Jennifer Bailey, Laura Bearden, Shirley Guerrerro, Sandra and John Lillie, Vicki Horne, Betsy Whitaker, Cathy and Craig Polkow, Liz Rozman, Katie Sulkowski, Susan McDonald, Beth Workman, Chase Cole, Laurie Seabury and Brenda and Ron Corbin.

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he line of gorgeous, excited, welldressed women patiently waiting to enter Kelly Pappas Crockett’s Green Hills manse hinted that something spectacular was just on the other side of the massive front door. And from the moment guests stepped foot inside the stunning Hillsboro Pike home, it was obvious their wait was worth it for Nashville Wine Auction’s Champagne and Chardonnay was well underway. The sold-out women’s only event provided great food, luxury shopping and, as the name suggests, both champagne and wine—all the makings of a fabulous evening.

Off the foyer, guests could peruse and purchase a number of beautiful handbags, jewelry and accessories from the evening’s two featured luxury brands, Tori Burch and Judith Ripka. The silent auction offered the ladies a number of glamorous excursions to bid on, including a trip to New York Fashion Week, a Sonoma County wine tasting getaway and a relaxing day of spa treatments at the Lilac Healing Center, in addition to exquisite wines and champagnes.

In the backyard, partygoers sipped their champagne and chardonnay poolside while relaxing on white sofas under a massive tent. Kristen Winston provided the tasty hors d’œuvres and bite-sized desserts that included lemon fruit tarts and white chocolate cranberry bars.

Taking advantage of the large room with two levels for entertaining, co-chair Deby Pitts offered an impassioned plea regarding the urgency of heart healthcare for women, citing her ancestry as the basis of her own genetic heart issues. On a lighter note, she then welcomed singer-songwriter and newest member of the GRW campaign, Tiffany, who provided top-notch entertainment for the dressed all-in-red group of more than 70 in attendance.

Co-chairs Liz Schatzlein and Carol Daniels then introduced St. Louis chef and cookbook author Mark Carboni, who engaged the crowd with heart healthy cooking tips.

Among his pointers were gems such as refrigerating onions before chopping them in order to prevent tears and oiling the cutting board to avoid sticking. Mark, who made a generous donation from the sale of his cookbooks, also served a delicious dinner of roasted pepper and tomato shooters, Asian green salad, fried sweet potatoes, mustard green pesto crostini, Chair Tara Mullaney, Pam Taylor, Kelly mouth-watering heirloom Pappas Crockett, Joanna Montgomery tomatoes and a dessert

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“Anywhere you go, someone has been touched by the money that Nashville Wine Auction raises for cancer research,” she said. Among those contributing to the nonprofit’s efforts were Vicki Horne, Laurin Howell, Kristen Brott, Julianna Martinelli, the evening’s speaker Joanna Montgomery, Nashville Wine Auction’s Executive Director Holly Whaley, Keri McInnis, JJ Seiters, Cyndi Sites, Deby Pitts, Ann Eaden, and co-chairs from this summer’s l’Eté du Vin, Denise McMillan and Lisa Fitzsimmons.

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o celebrate 30 years of providing hope and healing to victims of abuse, the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence hosted Pearls and Pinstripes, a lively cocktail party and auction at the newly renovated Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. The festive party gave supporters of this very worthy cause a chance to contribute to the organization’s ongoing mission to champion change in the fight against domestic and sexual assault.

The skylight gallery provided the backdrop for the soirée, where guests browsed an array of silent auction goodies and feasted on delicious hors d’œuvres from Mason’s.

Brie and pear quesadillas and fried or the past 10 years, the Renewal chicken skewers topped with tomato House has celebrated Thanksgivjam were just a couple of the amazing a little early with their Women’s ing bite-sized eats being offered. A Thanksgiving event, which helps carving station stocked with butfund the nonprofit’s residential termilk and cheddar biscuits, pulled and outpatient services for women pork, shaved beef tenderloin, blue who struggle with addiction. At the cheese crumbles and caramelized kick-off event, the team behind this onions allowed revelers the chance to assemble their own mini sandwiches.

Tables were outfitted in a blend of turquoise and plum ribbons and flowers, draped with pearl accents. Even the cupcake tower was Co-chairs Jennie Zagnoev, Katie Viebranz color coordinated! and Kim Lapidus Everyone’s sweet tooth was satisfi ed year’s annual fundraiser congreby the assortment of petite cakes gated at the stunning event space at and shooters, ranging in flavors from Marathon Village. pumpkin to chocolate salted caraEvent chairs Jennie Zagnoev, mel to margarita.

Katie Viebranz and Kim Lapidus Demetria Kalodimos hosted were on hand as well as Renewal the affair, with Sony recording artist House executive director Laura BerKristen Kelly providing the evelind and board chair Marilyn Dening’s entertainment. Michael Mcbree. While Muddy Dust provided Bride completed a live painting of live music, the crowd bid on silent the party that was auctioned off at and live auction items such as a guithe end of the night. Among those tar autographed by Kenny Chesney spotted in the crowd supporting Tenand a golf outing with Nashville Prednessee Coalition’s goal to end domesators coach Brent Peterson. tic and sexual violence were Pearls Everyone was talking about the and Pinstripes chairman Nancy incredible catering by Chef Donovan Britt, Rebecca Demaree, Kathy and Katrina Pritchard; the bounteWalsh, Bama Wood, William Lamous spread included smoked salmon berth, Phillip Robinson, Brenda crostini, charred cherry tomato and Gilmore and Phillip Smith. green bean panzanella, a baby spinach salad with grilled apples, bleu cheese, pecans and roasted shallot vinaigrette, slow roasted beef brisket, hot chicken biscuits with smoked pear preserves, and the most incredible hummus we’ve ever had. We heard the secret ingredient was pumpkin— how apropos! ConDemetria Kalodimos, Rebecca Demaree, sider our appetites Chair Nancy Britt, Kathy Walsh whetted for the event!

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TREAT YOURSELF TO ACTUAL FOOD With the holidays approaching, everyone is gearing up for party season, and many of us are hosting one (if not more!) of these parties. While invitations, decorations and music are an important part of the planning, most would argue that the main event is usually the food. If you’re looking for a surefire way to impress your guests, bring in Dan’s Actual Food to cater. Chef Dan Forberg specializes in multi-course dinners and wine pairings for small parties, usually between 10 and 20 people. He uses whole, organic foods to create healthy meals that maintain a rich, decadent taste and don’t taste like “health food.”

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THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR JUST GOT BETTER Whether you’re the type of person who makes a daily habit of visiting the mall during the holidays (See’s Candy samples, anyone?) or the type who avoids it like the plague, we’ve got news that will have you spending a bit more time there this season. Crate and Barrel, the one and only, opened a holiday pop-up shop in our very own Mall at Green Hills on October 23. Officially called The Tree Lot at Crate and Barrel, this 1,400-square foot temporary store is designed to resemble a Christmas tree lot, complete with pine trees, strings of holiday lights, and rustic red accents, and is filled to the brim with holiday essentials. Nashvillians will get a taste of the Crate and Barrel brand with their 2013 holiday collection of festive home décor and tree trimming items. Those of us who already have our share of holiday decorations can visit The Crate and Barrel Gift Table, which holds several gift items and stocking stuffers. And of course, like any good holiday shop, there will be candy. The Candy Shop inside the pop-up offers holiday goodies perfectly wrapped for gifting, or who are we kidding, for opening as soon as we get to our car. There will even be special events with live music throughout the season. So bring your gift list and your holiday spirit, whether it’s tomorrow or Christmas Eve, and find yourself and your loved ones some beautiful Crate and Barrel goodness. Who knows, maybe if we’re good this year, they’ll open a permanent store next year. Here’s hoping!

GRAB YOUR MASON JARS, IT’S TIME FOR A DRINK Well Nashvillians, it’s time to shut down those basement distilleries. Tennessee’s newest craft spirit, American Born Moonshine, hit shelves last month, and yes, it comes in a mason jar. Patrick Dillingham and Sean Koffel, California natives and Stanford Business School alumni, became enamored with the tradition of moonshine as they heard stories from friends who had grown up in the Appalachian Mountains. The pair spent a year traveling Appalachia, meeting families who regaled them with firsthand accounts of moonshining and bootlegging, and the tradition came even more alive as they learned of the drink’s rich history. It isn’t just about people getting drunk off of illegal alcohol; it’s about hardworking Americans who distilled alcohol from leftover corn from their fields in order to provide for their families during hard times. From post-Revolution and post-Civil War taxes to prohibition, farmers fought to keep their traditions and their families alive by making moonshine, whether the government liked it or not.

This spirit of rebellion, Patrick and Sean believe, is what makes Americans Americans, what helps us survive, and they want to pay homage to the spirit with American Born Moonshine. This corn whiskey is carefully handcrafted from timeless recipes, a perfect blend of corn, sugar and water that comes in three different flavors: Original, Apple Pie and Dixie. In keeping with tradition, it’s a strong brew, but it’s smooth enough to drink alone or mixed with a simple juice or soda. Next time you’re at the liquor store, give it a shot (literally), and taste the history of American Born Moonshine.

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f you’re going to enjoy lunch in the garden, what better garden than the one at the Governor’s Mansion? For more than 600 women—and a few gentlemen—the garden provided the perfect backdrop for the biannual First Lady’s Luncheon benefiting the Tennessee Residence Foundation. The luncheon, started by former First Lady Andrea Conte when the residence was being renovated, is part of an ongoing initiative to restore and maintain the Executive Residence and its surrounding landscape.

This year’s luncheon celebrated the completion of the Kitchen and Cutting Garden, finished in July with the intent of promoting Tennessee agriculture and farmto-table sustainability. It also served as the launch of Phase III of the landscape project, which includes the addition of a greenhouse and Secret Garden. Prior to dining, guests enjoyed a tour of the Kitchen and Cutting Garden, admiring the various greenery and produce planted by students who have visited the residence in recent months.

Governor Bill Haslam greeted the crowd and introduced his lovely wife, Crissy, calling her “one of the very best things our state has going for it.” Crissy offered a warm welcome to her guests, taking a moment to acknowledge a few special attendees in the crowd: first female Speaker of the House Beth Harwell and former First Ladies Honey Alexander and Betty Dunn, who was accompanied by her husband, Winfield. American Idol finalist and Tennessee native Janelle Arthur sang the blessing, choosing a very appropriate hymn for the gathering: “In the Garden.”

The divine lunch, provided by Opryland, celebrated local agriculture, as well, featuring ingredients from area farms. In between courses, guests perused the silent auction where a sustainable garden install from HGTV was causing quite a bidding frenzy!

After a video update of all the exciting things happening with the Tennessee Residence Foundation, the dashing Chris Lambton, host of HGTV’s Going Yard and former contestant on The Bachelorette, shared a few words on farm-to-table sustainability before closing remarks from Crissy. The reclaimed barn wood planter centerpieces, filled with flowers or veggies, were available for purchase allowing guests to take home a memento of the afternoon—from the First Lady’s table to your own.

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Live and learn Council on Aging present the Sage Awards

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ldous Huxley said that “the secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.” And at the 22nd annual Sage Awards, the room was filled with individuals who embody this philosophy. Presented by the Council on Aging, the event honored older adults who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to improving the quality of life in their communities.

Upon walking into the banquet room at Hillwood Country Club, you were greeted by a sea of purple and red attire, due to the enthusiastic turnout of Red Hat Society chapters in attendance, many of whom were there to support one of the honorees, Lois Orr Winston, Founder and Queen Mother of the Fantasia-in-Red Chapter of the Red Hat Society. With these fabulous red-hatted ladies there’s plenty of room for more than one queen; we also spotted Barbara Williams, who is Queen of the Reflections in Red chapter, chatting with Mary Churchwell.

The room was packed with old friends catching up and introducing their families to each other, including honoree Larry Keeton—owner of Dick’s Flowers and namesake of FiftyForward’s Larry Keeton Theatre, where he regularly performs— who brought his cousin Novarese Klingenberg. Senator Douglas Henry, who was also honored that afternoon, was in attendance with his lovely wife, Lolly, and daughter, Kathryn Henry-Choisser. We also saw honoree and longtime Nashville leader George Cate mugging for the camera before sitting down for lunch.

The luncheon commenced with a welcome from master of ceremonies Harry Chapman and an invocation from Lynn Ragland. After an address from Jocelyn A. Stevenson, president of the Council on Aging of Greater Nashville, the awards were presented to the four esteemed honorees while guests enjoyed a light chicken salad lunch entrée, nicely balanced with a decadent cheesecake for dessert. Because, life is too short to skip dessert, right?

Lois Orr Winston, George Cate, Robert Bogen, George Kersey

Tammy Hakim, Nancy Carr

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Sunday supper The Horticultural Society hosts a stunning alfresco dinner at Cheekwood

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hen it comes to alfresco dining, there’s no better time than autumn in Nashville, and perhaps no location more picturesque than the gardens of Cheekwood. The Horticultural Society of Middle Tennessee gave supporters a rare opportunity to supper in the midst of one of our city’s most beautiful and beloved natural treasures at the first-ever Fall Harvest Dinner. And with Bruce Munro’s LIGHT exhibit making Cheekwood dreamier and more gorgeous than ever, this was the perfect year for the Horticultural Society to launch such a wonderful event.

The festivities kicked off in the Sigourney Cheek Literary Garden with cocktails, hors d’œuvres and bluegrass music from Off the Wagon. A tasting station from the fine folks at Buffalo Trace provided five unique kinds of bourbon for sampling.

Guests preferring something other than the Kentucky whiskey could choose from a bar stocked with libations or two signature cocktails from PourTaste. Howlin’ at the Moon was a clever blend of vodka, sage, black currant and lemon, while the Southern Hymn offered a jazzed-up version of bourbon, sweetened and spiced with apple butter, lemon and ginger. Seeing how busy PourTaste’s purveyors, the adorable married duo of Jon and Lindsay Yeager, stayed throughout the night, it’s obvious the drinks were a big hit with this crowd.

For the three-course, farm-to-table feast, Dani Kates relied on local farms across Tennessee and Georgia. The fall kale salad—comprised of beechwood smoked speck, butternut squash, chèvre, apples, cranberries, toasted almonds and honey vinaigrette—accompanied by truffled chicken liver mousse, quince jam and grilled Tuscan bread was a decadent start to the meal. Osso buco Milanese, paired with shaved Brussels sprouts and caramelized carrots, served as the entrée with a warm chocolate fudge tart topped with white chocolate bourbon ice cream and bacon candy—yes, bacon candy!—following for dessert.

The only thing richer than the meal was the lively conversations happening across the Wills Perennial Garden at the long community tables, adorned with burlap runners, miniature white pumpkins and vases of burnt orange Chinese lantern flowers. The divine dinner, warm company and breathtaking locale left everyone departing with high hopes that this first-time event would return year after year.

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Monica and John Mackie, Jordan Harris

Jennifer Faucett, Carrie Wingfield, Co-chair Shannon Goff-Kukulka

Beverly Grant, Kirsten Schriner, Dee Parker

Susan Brownie, Bob Martineau, Heather Higgins

Will Cheek and Kathryn Barnett, Candice Reed, Sean Kirk

Full circle First Steps celebrates 10 years of Vino on the Veranda

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or the 10th annual Vino on the Veranda, the wine tasting event and auction for First Steps came full circle and returned to the location of the first event, The Hermitage Hotel. The fundraiser, which got its name from the hotel’s beautiful veranda, bounced around town the last few years, but the folks at First Steps were thrilled to return to their original site and welcome a crowd roughly three times the size of that first gathering.

Guests enjoyed strolling along the lovely veranda to sip and sample an array of vinos, a boast-worthy selection that included more than 45 varieties total.

Fortunately, there was also an assortment of delicious cheeses, fresh vegetables and fruit on hand to keep guests satiated during the tasting and focused on the greater task at hand: choosing which of the amazing silent auction items to bid on.

The 75+ items up for sale represented a wide range of activities and goods, a vast majority of which celebrated Nashville culture. Travel lovers could enjoy a guided fly fishing excursion on the Caney Fork River or a downtown staycation at the Hermitage Hotel; sports fanatics could choose between tickets to see the Titans, Commodores or Predators; foodies were thrilled by the wide variety of gift cards to local faves like Silo, McCabe Pub and Yazoo Brewery, and music fans had their pick of outings and items that included Music City Roots VIP passes, an autographed George Strait cowboy hat and Hatch Show Prints for Trace Adkins, Gruhn’s Guitars, BB King and Willie Nelson.

Susan Brownie and Bob Martineau, co-chairs of the first Vino on the Veranda 10 years ago, were thrilled to see how the event had changed and grown over the past decade. This year’s co-chairing quartet, Meg Feltham, Shannon Goff-Kukulka, Amanda Knight and Katy Miller, certainly did a beautiful job pulling the party together. And although much has changed over the years, one thing remains the same: the unwavering devotion and commitment of First Steps to educate and care for children with special needs. We’ll toast to that!

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The cat’s pajamas Belmont Mansion brings back the roaring ‘20s

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ou may have heard that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but the Belmont Mansion Association proves that it’s possible to repeat history, sans doom.

Recalling a famous duel between brothers of two famous Nashvillians—Adelicia Acklen and James K. Polk—the second annual Dueling Cocktails party centered around a spirited face-off in which attendees sampled two delectable cocktails and then voted for their favorite. I think we can all agree that a duel with spirits instead of swords ends better for all involved parties, right?

While last year’s event had a more buttoned-up Victorian feel, this year celebrated the glamour of the 1920s, which meant there were a lot of fun, sequined dresses on the ladies and dapper suits on the gents. The party was brilliantly hosted

by Damon and Susan Byrd—Susan also served as the event chair, and she looked absolutely fabulous!—and the Byrds’ backyard was dressed to the nines by Bob Deal, Jason Bradshaw and Phillipe Chadwick.

After the customary champagne sabering by Robert Hicks—really, shouldn’t every bottle of bubbly be opened with a sword?—drew cheers from the crowd, everyone was eager to start researching which way their votes would fall.

While voters were torn between the guest-submitted recipes—Beth and Charlie Sell’s Belmontillado Cotton Gin and Charlie and Camille Biter’s Side Porch—they had time to ponder their options over the tantalizing spread from Emily Frith’s Corner Market Catering, a robust buffet of caviar pie, smoked salmon on potato cakes, cucumber watercress sandwiches, fig and sweet potato biscuits, a massive fruit and cheese plate and beef tenderloin on crostini. Post-dinner, everyone indulged in passed desserts of mini lemon tarts with blueberries and chocolate truffles.

But let’s get back to the election—after Mac Hardcastle led an entertaining live auction, it was time to reveal the results. Would it be the Corsair gin-infused Cotton Gin, sweetened with cinnamon and a tiny marshmallow, or the bourbon-drenched Side Porch? As a general rule, we try to stay impartial in a duel, but we were swayed by the Cotton Gin, which took the victory. It just might be our new favorite cocktail!

What’s even more victorious is that this year’s Dueling Cocktails netted double over last year’s event—we’ll drink to that!

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Campbell West, Joe Wooley, Jim Schmidt

Anne Davis and Karl Dean, Sherry and Dudley West

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Dinner with a view Greenways for Nashville supporters dine on the Shelby Street Bridge Mayumi and Alexei Khimenko

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olding outdoor events in Nashville is always risky business, as last year’s Dinner on the Bridge had to be moved indoors due to inclement weather. While being on the 21st floor of the Pinnacle Building was certainly no slouch—and incredible views of our ever-expanding city definitely softened the blow—everyone was excited to bring the popular event, which benefits Greenways for Nashville, back home to the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge.

And when Mother Nature RSVPs “yes” to the party, she arrives dressed to the nines. The early October evening could not have been more perfect; as the sun was dropping below the Nashville skyline, guests ascended the bridge, enjoying the light show as the sun descended and the bridge lights slowly started to glimmer. A gaggle of acrobatic jugglers from Playing By Air entertained the crowd as they mingled.

In the pre-dinner cocktail hour, attendees enjoyed libations from sponsors Ajax Turner and nibbled on crab cakes with spicy remoulade and smoked pimento cheese on corncake tomato chutney. Before dinner, when the crowd wasn’t swarming the bars for cocktails, we caught several people taking Instagramapproved selfies on the side of the bridge, the illuminated city serving as their Facebook-ready background.

After a welcoming from Greenways for Nashville president Mark Deutschmann and Karl Dean and Anne Davis, everyone assembled at the incredibly long table—because, we like to dine family-style in the South!—for an elevated dining experience. After a kale salad dressed with roasted butternut squash, Israeli couscous, almonds and dried cranberries, the main course of stuffed grilled flank steak, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, chimichurri, white cheddar grits and asparagus thrilled the hungry group. The finale of bittersweet chocolate pot de crème and Apple Brown Betty with sorghum crème anglaise was a perfect way to end a perfect evening.

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nticipation was running high as supporters of Cumberland Heights gathered downtown for an exclusive pre-party before the annual Concert for Cumberland Heights. The Hilton Nashville was packed with revelers thrilled to be supporting such a worthy cause and equally delighted for the exciting night ahead: a concert at the Ryman Auditorium with the one and only Kenny Rogers.

To fuel up for the fun-filled concert, guests enjoyed a delicious spread that included pulled pork and biscuits, mushroom ravioli, cured meats, fresh cheese and marinated vegetables. More than one guest was overhead admiring the adorable presentation of pecan-encrusted chicken fingers and waffle fries, served in mini fryer baskets lined with paper. The delectable mini desserts and truffles certainly didn’t go unnoticed either. Not a single treat was left as the end of the party drew near. Fortunately, the real treat was yet to come as guests made their way down 5th Avenue to the Ryman.

As always, John Hiatt made a special appearance at the concert to welcome Kenny to the stage. John makes quite the appropriate emcee, considering proceeds from the event support the John Hiatt Fund for Adolescent Treatment at Cumberland Heights. Over the course of the past 16 years, the concert has raised funds in excess of $2 million!

Once Kenny took the stage, there was nonstop cheering, laughing, singing and dancing as the legendary country artist performed hit after hit. One lucky fan in the front row even earned $150 as Kenny threw 10 bucks at him every time he performed a recognizable number, joking, “I’m not above buying fans.” From “Lucille” to “Lady,” “Coward of the County” to “The Gambler,” Kenny kept the crowd entertained from start to finish. At one point, he even got a little help from a special surprise guest, the always-adorable Kellie Pickler who joined him for a duet of “Someone Somewhere Tonight.”

One of the more poignant moments of the night came when Kenny performed a heartfelt cover of John Hiatt’s “Have a Little Faith in Me,” an apt anthem for the work that Cumberland Heights does, providing unwavering support and encouragement to individuals seeking freedom from their addictions.

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Kevin and Mandi Sage

Laurie and Simon Hartland, Jason Ritzen, Stephanie Hardy

Ann Dobson, Ashley Walker, Amanda Elcan, Camy Sanchez

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Down by the river Tennessee’s natural beauty is on display at River Swing

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other Nature certainly seems to be supportive of the Harpeth River.

The mild, clear October night was perfect for the Harpeth River Watershed Association’s annual fundraiser, River Swing, held at Matt and Ann Dobson’s scenic Westover Farm in Franklin. Guests donned their finest denim and boots for a fun-filled fall night celebrating one of our area’s most important natural resources.

The festivities kicked off with a lively cocktail hour behind the Dobsons’ home, where revelers enjoyed The Bees Knees, a specialty drink comprised of Corsair gin, grapefruit and pineapple, and a sampling of hors d’œuvres from Whole Foods that included smoked chicken skewers and mini crab cakes with roasted red pepper aioli. Perhaps the most entertaining part of the gathering was Gracie, the Dobsons’ adorable golden retriever, who spent the evening getting guests to throw her ball into the pool so she had a reason to jump in after it.

As the crowd moved to the dinner tent out front, they were met with one of the most spectacular scenes. Artist Dennas Davis’ 8-foot by 24-foot acrylic painting of the Harpeth River provided a gorgeous backdrop for both the shindig and the most creative photo booth we’ve ever seen. The hilarious array of props—oars, life vests and a taxidermied beaver in a bowtie and otter in glasses—kept guests entertained all night as they posed for pictures. Dennas’s artwork will be on display at Franklin City Hall for anyone who missed seeing it at River Swing.

The Higher Ground Band provided dinnertime tunes as guests noshed on the down-home spread of maple chipotle chicken, BBQ brisket, Southern roasted veggies, lemon-thyme sweet potatoes and mac n’ cheese with parmesan and breadcrumbs. For dessert, chocolate and vanilla cakes, each decorated with the fish-playing-guitar logo of River Swing, satisfied everyone’s sweet tooth.

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he Belcourt Theatre’s fourth annual iNDie Festival—formerly known as the nD Festival—certainly puts the fun in fundraising, with multiple events celebrating the talented makers who call Nashville home. The event raises money for the Belcourt’s education and engagement programs inside and outside of the historic theatre’s walls, encouraging visual literacy among area youth and bringing Q&A sessions, panels and discussions to theatergoers.

The event kicked off with iNDie Made at Marathon Village, where attendees had the opportunity to “meet the makers” who comprise the creative community of Marathon Village, which celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. Guests wandered around the building, stopping in at the headquarters of Imogene + Willie, Otis James and Emil Erwin, to name but a few. After enjoying food from the likes of The Southern and treats from Bang Candy Co., everyone retreated to William Collier’s for a cocktail and some extremely entertaining storytelling from Marathon owner Barry Walker.

The second night of iNDie, held back at home base at the Belcourt Theatre, gave attendees a sneak preview of acclaimed music documentary Muscle Shoals.

Before the film, the audience enjoyed cocktails and food from Josh Habiger (The Catbird Seat, The Patterson House), Roderick Bailey (The Silly Goose) and the most delicious hand pies by Lisa Donovan (Husk Nashville, Buttermilk Road Sunday Suppers). After the film, Rick Hall, proprietor of FAME Studios—and center of the Muscle Shoals story—participated in a Q&A session, an example of the kind of programming the event helps fund.

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The closing night of iNDie, held at Third Man Records, featured Alloy Orchestra performing a live score to accompany the 1929 classic silent film Man With a Movie Camera. Before the show, guests gathered on Third Man’s back patio, where they enjoyed incredible food from Sardinia Ristorante and watched film shorts from the Belcourt’s educational outreach programs.

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he always-popular Southern Festival of Books commemorated a major milestone this year, marking the 25th anniversary of the beloved literary event. Bibliophiles of all ages came together for the packed weekend of free events that included lectures, book signings and readings, kicked off on Friday night by Authors in the Round. The seated dinner at War Memorial created an intimate setting for readers to get up close and personal with their favorite writers, while simultaneously serving as an important fundraiser for Humanities Tennessee.

Co-chairs Helen and Neil Hemphill orchestrated the beautiful affair, which began with cocktails in the courtyard. The selection of passed hors d’œuvres from Chef ’s Market—a clever play on the theme that included Stevenson’s shrimp, Capote’s crab cakes and Tolstoy’s tomato bruschetta—served as the perfect prologue to the delicious feast and fun-filled night ahead. The incomparable John Seigenthaler, who laughed off Tim Henderson’s warm introduction by joking “I’m a legend in my own mind,” served as master of ceremonies and started the dinner by honoring all 40 participating authors and the “tough work” they do. The authors, ranging from best-selling veterans to critically acclaimed debut novelists, were each assigned to a separate table to dine with partygoers. War Memorial was filled with excited chatter as each table engaged in spirited discourse with their designated author throughout the meal.

The dinner, a “narrative” of Shakespeare themed fare, included The Taming of the Straw (strawberry and goat cheese salad), Chicken As You Like It (stuffed with apples and brie), Richard II Baked Potatoes, Asparagus and Cleopatra and the Two Noble Kinsmen Rolls. The evening’s epilogue? The Adventures of Huckleberry Cheesecake, of course. Carrying the literary theme throughout the décor, the centerpieces were sculptures using reclaimed books crafted by local artists and available for sale at the end of the night.

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he Heritage Ball, the longest running black-tie soirée in Williamson County, turned 40 this year and celebrated in style with a lavish party at Carnton Plantation, one of Franklin’s historic gems. The hallowed ground of the Eastern Flank Battlefield was transformed into a spectacular site for the gala, tented and dressed up in red for the formal affair.

Co-chairs Andy and Jan Marshall welcomed guests to the lively cocktail hour, where an impressive silent auction boasted items that ranged from a Cabo San Lucas vacation rental to a year of Botox to a private brandy cocktail tasting event at GRAYS on Main. Speaking of cocktails, The Heritage Ball teamed up with PourTaste and GRAYS to create a specialty drink for the night called Preservation Punch. A blend of orange, fig and apple that featured local distillery Corsair’s appleinfused quinoa whiskey, the delicious concoction tasted like autumn in a glass! It certainly kept revelers in good spirits throughout the long, fun-filled night.

In keeping with tradition, d.Kates Catering prepared the incredible food for the Ball, a farm-to-fork inspired spread that utilized locally sourced ingredients. Hors d’œuvres, such as tomato basil bites and smoked gouda pimento cheese corncakes, paved the way to the unforgettable three-course dinner that included a roasted baby beets salad, dry-aged angus filet and a sorghum cake with cinnamon crème fraîche, salted caramel and candied pecans.

The dinner tent was dressed to the nines, thanks to the hard work of a committee led by design chair Angela Calhoun. Pale gold tablecloths and gold Chiavari chairs offered a subtle sophisticated backdrop for vibrant pops of red provided by the chic rose centerpieces and scarlet draped fabric. The Patron Award, presented by last year’s recipient Tim Pagliara, was given to the family of Coach Gentry. The crowd gave a standing ovation as 14 members from three generations of the Gentry family took the stage. Heritage Ball King and Queen honors went to Joseph and continued on page 54

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Following the dinner and awards presentation, The Jimmy Church Band took the stage with an upbeat performance that had guests on their feet within minutes. And when partygoers finally returned to their cars, they were greeted with a commemorative bottle of white wine and specialty chocolate bar from Schakolad, a little something to keep the party going at home.

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here’s no better reminder of just how important the work of the Land Trust for Tennessee is than a party on a beautiful stretch of countryside under a canopy of stars. Such was the case at Once in a Blue Moon, the annual fall fundraiser for the land conservation nonprofit. Revelers converged at the Williamson County intersection of Old Hillsboro Road and Del Rio Pike on the historic, protected viewshed for the casual and lively autumn gathering, a celebration of Tennessee’s natural beauty and the arrival of fall.

Chairmoons Jodi Banks, Clark Harwell and Collins Hooper welcomed guests to the open-air cocktail party, tented only by strands of Italian street fair lights. The Hog Slop String Band provided the pre-dinner tunes and Dani Kates supplied the tasty hors d’œuvres, which included deviled eggs with bacon jam and country ham and cheese biscuits. Throughout the property, lights shining on round hay bales gave the appearance of moons littered across the field.

Following the cocktail party, guests took a short jaunt over to find the dinner tent aglow with the dreamy light of hundreds of tea light candles in mason jars lining each table. White paper lanterns in various sizes hung from the center of the tent creating a modern-looking chandelier of sorts, and, as to be expected, an image of the moon was projected onto one side of the tent.

A beautiful invocation from Lissa Smith and a word of welcome from Land Trust president Jeanie Nelson provided a poignant moment of reflection for the crowd about the blessing of our Tennessee landscape and the need to protect it.

Fortunately, Land Trust of Tennessee is working tirelessly to guard the land that we love, adding 20,000 acres in the last year. In the next few months, the organization will exceed 100,000 acres of protected open spaces across the state.

The party continued well into the night with a delicious three-course feast from d.Kates, an interactive clogging performance from Tommy Jackson’s Rocky Top Revue and dancing to bluegrass music from The Grass Stains. As the night wore on, guests made their way to the roaring bonfire to toast marshmallows and toast to the kind of festive night that only happens once in a blue moon.

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A JOYOUS FÊTE What better way to greet the holiday season than in the company of good friends? Whether an elaborate cocktail party or an intimate dinner, an evening spent surrounded by loved ones is the perfect antidote to the stress and chaos so common this time of year. To help you throw the kind of convivial celebration everyone will be talking about, we sought out culinary and entertaining advice from some of our city’s finest experts so that you don’t have to be one. From hors d’œuvres to dessert and everything in between, we’ve got the tips and tricks you need to make your holiday party an event no one will forget. Cheers to that!

BY NANCY FLOYD

LE FROMAGE Is there anything in the world more delicious than cheese? Creamy, nutty, crumbly, tangy—the vast varieties of fromage are diverse enough to satisfy any palate. A small pre-dinner snack, a hearty hors d’œuvres platter or in lieu of a dessert course, cheese can fill multiple roles at any holiday gathering. A combination of sweet and savory, smooth and textured, a cheese plate assumes many aliases, satisfying guests and serving as a statement piece in the process. And the best part about it?

You never even need to turn on the oven.

SUGAR AND SPICE NUTS 1/3 cup dark-brown sugar 2/3 cup white granulated sugar 1-1/2 teaspoon kosher salt Generous pinch of cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 pound walnuts, pecan halves or whole peeled hazelnuts 1 egg white, room temperature 1 tablespoon water Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a small mixing bowl, combine white sugar, brown sugar, salt, cayenne and cinnamon; set aside. Beat egg white and water until frothy. Stir in walnuts, hazelnuts or pecans until evenly coated. Toss nuts with sugar mixture to coat all sides. Spread in a single layer on baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. As nuts cool, break them apart. Serve with a variety of cheeses, jams and fruit.

(Recipe adapted from smittenkitchen.com where it was adapted from Elizabeth Karmel of Hill Country)

SELECT

SERVE

SUPPLEMENT

For an interesting and palatable cheese plate, choose three to five types that vary in texture and intensity, ensuring there’s something for everyone’s tastes.

Kathleen Cotter, owner of The Bloomy Rind, recommends selecting one kind from each of the following categories for a well-rounded sampling sure to satisfy everyone at your party.

• SOFT: O’Banon, a fresh goat cheese wrapped in bourbonsoaked chestnut leaves, or a Camembert style, such as Green Hill • SEMI-FIRM TO FIRM: Cumberland, a rustic tomme style from Tennessee, nutty sheep milk Pyranees, or Marieke Gouda, aged 12-24 months • HARDER AGED: Manchegoesque Dante or Asiagoinspired Calvander • BLUE: Buttery Asher Blue from Georgia or creamy sheep milk Bohemian Blue • WASHED RIND: Tangy Peach Mead Gouda or seasonal gem Rush Creek Reserve with its custardy texture and hints of bacon

To get the most out of your cheese, set the platter out 30 minutes to an hour before guests arrive. Colder temperatures can mute the flavors of the cheese so serving it at room temperature is ideal. For a platter that looks as good as it tastes, think beyond the cube. Firmer cheeses that retain their form can be cut into thin slices or wedges; crumbly cheeses are best served, well, crumbled into little chunks easy enough to grab; and soft cheeses can be displayed with a small bit sliced off the end to get it started.

Invest in a nice set of cheese tools—typically consisting of a cheese cleaver, spade, forktip knife and spreaders—to make serving easier. Keeping each kind of cheese clumped together on the platter lets guests know what they’re sampling so they can easily returns for seconds (or thirds... or fourths...). If you have any questions about how a cheese should be served, don’t hesitate to ask your cheesemonger for recommendations. They’re the experts, after all.

A great cheese plate is about more than simply cheeses. Sure, they’re the centerpiece, but a selection of tasty accouterments assists in bringing out the rich flavors of each variety. Bread or crackers are an absolute must-have, serving as a vehicle for the cheese. Try a sliced baguette from Provence or some artisan flatbread crackers.

For something savory, add in some sliced salami, shaved deli meats or pâté from Porter Road Butcher, Marcona almonds or candied nuts, pickled vegetables or a spread of whole grain mustard. To sweeten things up and stay true to the season, add in fresh fruit, such as figs, apples or pears, or try some holiday preserves. The jamstresses at Nashville’s own Bathtub Gin offer tasty seasonal selections like Cognac Cranberry Twist or Riesling Rosemary Pear. The pepper jellies at The Nashville Jam Company provide a nice blend of sweet and spicy with decadent flavors like peach habañero, raspberry jalapeño or six pepper jelly.

ABOUT OUR CHEESE EXPERT The Bloomy Rind is Nashville’s only cut-to-order cheese counter and features a unique selection of American artisan cheeses. Owner/ cheesemonger Kathleen Cotter also founded the Southern Artisan Cheese Festival. For more information, please visit facebook.com/thebloomyrind.

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LES BOISSONS The table’s set, the candles are lit, the fire is roaring—the only way to make your guests feel more relaxed and comfortable is to put a drink in their hand. A well-stocked bar does wonders at setting the tone and creating a convivial atmosphere that continues long after the last bite is consumed, the final gift is unwrapped or the ball drops at midnight.

ABOUT OUR COCKTAILS EXPERT Ryan Henry is the General Manager at William Collier’s. Named for the chief engineer of Marathon Motor Works, William Collier’s is a pub located in historic Marathon Village. Open Monday through Saturday starting at 11:30 a.m., William Collier’s features high-end whiskeys, bourbons and specialty cocktails. For more information, visit facebook.com/williamcolliers or @ WColliersNash on Twitter.

Photographed by Michael W. Bunch at William Collier’s. Drinks courtesy of Ryan Henry/William Collier’s.

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A JOYOUS FÊTE Know your audience.

Keep it simple.

Spice it up.

Stick with the season.

Take your time.

Knowing your party guests and their preferences defines what you should have behind the bar. If you’re hosting a crowd that’s partial to bourbon or whiskey, focus on offering a few varieties of the same kind of liquor, rather than trying to stock every possible option available. Don’t be afraid to swap a specialty liquor for a traditional one in a recipe.

Rye whiskey, for example, is incredibly popular this year.

Substitute it in any classic cocktail to get a spiced note, perfect for fall or winter.

A high quality liquor can stand on its own with little in the way of mix-ins or garnishes.

Stocking your bar with topshelf spirits frees you from the pressure of having to be a master mixologist—just a splash of water and some ice is usually enough. For a slightly sweeter cocktail, mix together a batch of simple syrup in lieu of juices or cordials. The concoction—a blend of 50% sugar and 50% warm water, stirred together until the sugar dissolves—is an easy way to sweeten a drink without overpowering the spirit.

Cocktails should be a full sensory experience that relies on aromas and appearance, just as much as taste. Turn to traditional holiday flavors to spruce up ordinary cocktails.

Stock your bar with a variety of fresh herbs and spices to zest onto drinks or use as a garnish. Fresh spices, such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, are a clever way to infuse warm winter flavors into libations. Take a cue from your favorite holiday recipes to find herbs, like rosemary and sage, to smarten drinks and complement the meal.

Draw inspiration from seasonal favorites when crafting your mixed drinks. In the summer, everyone expects lemon or lime in beverages, but in the fall and winter, you can get a little more creative with your fruit garnishes. Sliced or crushed seasonal fruit—plums, figs, cranberries or darker berries, like blackberries or muscadines—is a simple way to put a spin on ordinary potables, while adding a beautiful visual element and drawing out the flavors found in a customary holiday meal.

Don’t get overwhelmed this holiday season by trying to become an expert bartender overnight and learning the recipes to 20 different concoctions. Plan to offer only a couple specialty cocktails, handcrafted for each guest and made with care. A menu of just one or two mixed drinks, along with some beer and wine options, is more than enough. Familiarize yourself with all of your ingredients so that you can easily offer customizations to drinks that will please anyone’s palate.

Don’t forget the beer...

...or the cider.

Tell a story.

Premium cocktails are a special touch that add elegance to any celebration, but a good bar should still offer a couple varieties of beer. Seasonal selections, like pumpkin ales or winter lagers, are a popular choice to have on hand, and darker beers, such as porters and stouts, are perfect for the cooler weather. Check out Nashville’s area breweries— Yazoo, Jackalope, Fat Bottom, Blackstone or Turtle Anarchy, to name a few—and sample a few varieties before settling on a couple that you— and your crowd—love.

A lot of people think of ciders as summer standards only, but their light flavor lends itself to incorporating seasonal tastes and aromas.

A crisp and smooth cider, such as Crispin, serves as a fruit envelope, taking on the flavors it’s blended with. Drop in some sliced apple, fresh grated cinnamon and nutmeg, or sliced figs for an instant autumn hit. Or, pour cider over muddled fruit at the bottom of a pint glass to really enhance the flavor and transform the cider into a delicious cold weather offering.

Cultivate conversation by being deliberate with your bar selections. Choose libations with an interesting history or something that has personal meaning to you. Distillers like Corsair, Belle Meade Bourbon, Jailers, Collier and McKeel, and Chattanooga Whiskey not only have a local connection that makes for interesting discussion (especially for out-of-town guests), many of them offer small-batch seasonal or experimental spirits, turning a simple libation into a conversation piece.

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THE FINAL WARD

2 oz. Collier and McKeel Tennessee Whiskey 1 oz. Dolin Rouge Vermouth Peychurds Bitters Luxardo Maraschino cherries

1 oz. Corsair Ryemageddon 1 oz. Green Chartreuse 1 oz. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur 1 Tbsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice (about 2 lemon wedges) Luxardo Maraschino cherries

In a rocks glass over ice, combine whiskey, vermouth and bitters. Drop two cherries in and stir well.

To add a simple twist to this cocktail, use half the amount of Vermouth and add a syrup from The Bang Candy Company, like Smoked Spiced Orange or Hibiscus Orange Flower Ginger. Don’t cheat on the cherry. Get Luxardo.

VIN As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Good wine is a necessity of life.” A necessity of life and a necessity of a good party.

For tips on wine for holiday entertaining, we turned to our friends Laura Nevins and Ames Bailey from Harvest Wine Market in Belle Meade. Here’s their best advice when it comes to wine selection:

Combine all ingredients except cherries in a shaker tin. Add ice and shake vigorously.

Strain into a martini glass over a cherry.

Plan ahead

Sip and sample

Stock the pantry

Take your menu, whether a full dinner or simply hors d’œuvres, to the wine store well in advance and talk to a wine professional about the best vintages to complement your meal.

In the weeks leading up to your party, buy a few bottles of wine to sample. Find options that you like so you’ll be confident and excited when pouring a glass for guests.

Wine isn’t just for drinking!

Stock up on popular wines for baking—such as cream and dry sherry, Marsala, Madeira, brandy and port—and spare yourself the panic of realizing you don’t have what you need halfway through a recipe.

Add some sparkle

Buy in bulk

Trust the experts

Nothing says “festive” quite like a glass of sparking wine, the perfect way to start or end an evening. For a new take on a traditional favorite, try adding a splash of your favorite liqueur or a paperthin slice of pear.

If you find a couple wines that you absolutely love, order them by the case. Not only will you always have it on hand when hosting friends, but many stores will offer you a discount for purchasing a larger quantity.

When all else fails, stop by Harvest Wine Market or your favorite liquor store and ask for recommendations.

They can suggest seasonal offerings, new alternatives and classic standbys to help make your holiday get-together a memorable night. Cheers!

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LES PLATS PRINCIPEAUX There’s no better time of year to host a dinner party than the holidays. As the days grow shorter and the temperatures get cooler, there’s something wonderfully comforting about filling your table with friends and loved ones, sharing great food and engaging in spirited conversation. Mary Hooper, Lauren Ledbetter and Amy Stroup—the creative minds behind the dinner series, Unlikely Bunch—teamed up with The Food Company’s culinary director, Molly Martin, to create this intimate dinner party and offer their insight for planning one of your own. nfocusnashville.com

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A JOYOUS FÊTE Use what you have.

Tell your story.

Mix and match.

When you begin the party planning process, think about what you have. What room will the party be held in?

What china or glassware do you definitely want to use?

What’s one recipe that has to be on the menu? Allow these choices to inspire you and establish how the rest of the night will go. Let the colors or styles of your location dictate the motif of the party, use the dinnerware to establish the concept and allow your favorite recipe to influence the other flavors of the night.

If you begin with what you have, the rest of the party will be a natural extension of your distinct personality and taste.

Opening your home for a dinner party is about sharing—not just your space or your food, but your story. Allow your dinner gathering to tell a story, reveal your history, express your sentiment. Pull in items that are precious to you, whether it be your grandmother’s china, a cherished token from a family vacation or a beloved recipe that’s been passed down for generations.

These things create unique conversation starters and allow you to share part of your story with your guests.

Gone are the days when everything needs to be perfectly color coordinated.

Effortless style is the goal—a well-executed aesthetic that doesn’t look like you stressed about it for months (even if you actually did!) will help guests feel more comfortable and relaxed at your shindig.

Add a personal touch to holiday gatherings by mixing in eclectic items that have personal significance to you, simultaneously adding a distinct flourish to the overall design that makes your party unique and memorable.

Set the tone.

Involve your guests.

A common thread.

Create the right atmosphere and make your loved ones feel at home by carefully thinking through the small, often unnoticed, details of your party. Lighting and candles create a cozy and welcoming ambiance, background music adds to the merriment and something as simple as having poured wine or prepared cocktails for your guests right when they arrive truly help make people feel at ease. These behindthe-scenes decisions might go consciously unobserved, but they’re the very things that set the tone for the night and leave a lasting impression on guests.

Regardless of how prepared you are before your guests arrive, everyone will inevitably want to be part of the action.

Providing some way for partygoers to interact with you as their host makes them feel connected. Molly from The Food Company recommends a soup bar for winter festivities, giving guests who congregate in the kitchen (as they always do) something to do while they stand around. It keeps revelers busy, encourages conversation and offers a sneak peek at the culinary delights to come. Keep a pot warming on the stove, along with an array of toppings for guests to choose from, so everyone can scoop a serving and make it their own.

Parties no longer have to revolve around an obvious theme—say aloha to that Blue Hawaiian Christmas Extravaganza you’ve been toying with throwing—but should offer some sense of completion and consistency throughout. An easy way to weave a unifying thread through the night is through your food. For this menu, Molly relied on unexpected spices to create a subtle Moroccan theme throughout the meal.

Cozy, rustic touches were interwoven throughout the night through the use of handdrawn menus, mismatched bowls at the soup bar and the simple floral arrangements comprised of fresh flowers from the backyard.

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Photographed by Eric England at the home of Ruthie Lindsey (ruthielindseydesign.com). Styled by Unlikely Bunch. Food prepared by Molly Martin of The Food Company.

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LES DESSERTS ’Tis the season to satisfy your sweet tooth. A dessert bar serves as a final wow factor for a holiday dinner, or stands alone as a centerpiece of a casual cocktail party. Rich in seasonal flavors and utilizing local goodies, these dessert treats from Frosted Affair are almost too pretty to eat. Almost.

Go local.

Offer variety.

Add interest.

Create a focal point.

Mix and match.

Incorporate your favorite Music City flavors into traditional desserts by making simple ingredient swaps. Using goods from local purveyors adds a nice touch, especially if you’re hosting any out-of-town guests, while also supporting the businesses and vendors that make Nashville so unique. For this gorgeous dessert table, the ladies at Frosted Affair utilized apple pie flavored American Born Moonshine in mini spice cupcakes, CREMA espresso in mocha cupcakes (sprinkled with Nashville Toffee Company toffee bits) and espresso mousse cups, an assortment of marshmallows from The Bang Candy Company and Olive & Sinclair chocolate to drizzle onto cupcakes and coat cake pops.

The best part about a dessert buffet is the sheer number of flavor options it provides your guests. Even though you likely have a favorite dessert, your taste might not be shared by the crowd.

Instead of limiting yourself to one type of dessert, a dessert bar allows options for everyone with a variety of bite-sized treats. Chocolate is a must-have for most sweets enthusiasts, but balance it out with lighter flavors and seasonal options. For holiday entertaining, using ingredients that are only available during the fall and winter months makes the selections feel more special.

Pull in warm spiced flavors, like cinnamon, pumpkin or ginger, to create tasty desserts that are specific to the season.

Elevate the appearance of everyday desserts with simple, creative touches.

The addition of decorative straws to cake pops or marshmallows creates a fun and festive way to display treats. The striped straws come in nearly every hue imaginable, providing the perfect way to add a pop of color or complement the party’s décor. Make cupcakes look fancier by drizzling with chocolate ganache, lightly dusting with cinnamon sugar or sprinkling with crushed cookie or candy crumbs.

Homemade or storebought cookies go from expected to exceptional when bundled and tied with ribbon. Plus, they make a darling party favor at the end of the night!

Every dessert buffet should have a focal point that catches the eye and anchors the table. For birthdays or weddings, a beautiful, multitiered cake is an obvious choice but for holiday entertaining, choose another dessert to put front and center. Cookies tied with ribbon, a tray of pretty little cake pops or dressed up cupcakes are ideal options.

Simply pick your prettiest dessert and design your entire spread around it.

Displaying the desserts on a beautiful platter or stacked atop an unconventional accessory (like the antique scale and vintage suitcases at this dessert buffet) add another wow factor. Group desserts together by flavor or type for easier selection.

Don’t be afraid to mix and match when it comes to serving pieces. Pair your crystal platters with found objects around the house to create an interesting, eclectic and eye-catching buffet. Items like vintage luggage, wooden crates or antique accessories add variety and texture to a table, while also serving the very important role of adding height to your display. “A flat table is a boring table,” Bree from Frosted Affair says. Walk through your home and garden and try to view ordinary objects with a new perspective. A candlestick can be a pedestal for a platter, or a vintage barn door works as a display table. If all else fails, contact Stockroom Vintage to rent the eclectic items used for this shoot.

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OLIVE & SINCLAIR CHOCOLATE GANACHE 2 bars of Olive & Sinclair 67% Chocolate 1/4 cup heavy cream

CREMA ESPRESSO MOUSSE 2 cups fresh whipped cream 1/2 cup chocolate ganache (cooled) 1/8 cup (2 shots) espresso

Use a chef’s knife to roughly chop two bars of Olive & Sinclair 67% Chocolate. Heat 1/4 cup heavy cream in a microwave safe bowl for two minutes on 40% power. Pour hot cream over chopped chocolate and stir until chocolate is melted. Allow ganache to come to room temperature. Use ganache in place of chocolate syrup or sauce for desserts. Cover and store unused ganache in refrigerator for up to one week. Reheat in microwave.

Put your mixing bowl into the freezer for 10 minutes. Make your ganache (recipe beside). Stir 1/8 cup (2 shots) of CREMA espresso into your prepared chocolate ganache. Allow mixture to cool completely.

While you’re waiting, make your whipped cream. Get mixing bowl out of freezer. Add 1 1/2 cups heavy cream and 2-3 tablespoons of powdered sugar. Beat with whisk attachment just until stiff peaks form.

When ganache has come to room temperature, gently fold it into the fresh whipped cream until it is fully incorporated. Spoon mousse into espresso cups and top with vanilla sugar cookies to dip into mousse.

Serve immediately.

Note: if you need to prepare mousse in advance, you can also substitute 2 cups of a prepared whipped topping that will have more stability.

ABOUT OUR DESSERT EXPERTS Frosted Affair is the brainchild of Bree Roberts Smith, a schoolteacher-turned-cake fashionista, and Amy Millslagle, former Marketing VP of a Fortune 100 company. Frosted Affair delivers a complete custom party in one stop—invitations, decorations, party favors, and most importantly, gourmet buttercream cakes, cookies, cupcakes and cake pops! Frosted Affair also boasts a separate 1,500 sq. foot party room, complete with kitchen prep area, tables, chairs and linens that’s perfect for birthdays, showers, holiday parties or a simple adults night out! Frosted Affair has partnered with some of Nashville’s best entertainers, including Enchanted Entertainment, to provide additional entertainment options for party lovers of all ages.

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Eat, drink and eat some more Music City Eats welcomes top chefs and musical talents

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he inaugural Music City Eats brought the culinary curious out in droves to Public Square Park for two days of food, wine, music and fun.

Despite a rainy night preceding the event, by Saturday morning, it appeared that somebody ordered perfect weather off the menu. When guests arrived to the park, they were given a bag containing the weekend’s packed schedule, a cup for wine and spirits tastings, and a couple of Goo Goo Clusters. They sure know the way to our hearts!

Hungry attendees pillaged the variety of options found in the Flavors of Nashville tasting tents, which featured ample samplings from the area’s most beloved establishments. Vendors included Nashville classics like Merchants Restaurant and Arnold’s Country Kitchen, and we marveled over the amount of newer kids on the block in attendance—such as Etch, Hattie B’s, Otaku South, Peg Leg Porker and SILO—showing the incredible growth and breadth of our local culinary scene.

But Music City Eats wasn’t just about the food: Oenophiles had a wide variety of national and international wineries to choose from, and there were plenty of beer and spirits options on hand. We fell particularly in love with Deep Eddy Ruby Red Vodka, a grapefruit-infused liquor that packed quite a punch yet was delightfully refreshing on what turned into a warm autumn day.

The idea of Music City Eats originated with Nashville band Kings of Leon’s Caleb and Nathan Followill and the man the L.A. Times dubbed “the Eric Clapton of chefs,” Chef Jonathan Waxman (Barbuto, Jams, Chez Panisse, Michael’s and TopChef Masters).

We asked Jonathan how two rock and rollers and one legendary chef ended up collaborating, and he explained how he struck up a friendship with Caleb and his wife, who were frequent diners at Barbuto in New York City.

“We just hit it off, we talked about everything under the sun, but mainly about music and food,” Jonathan explained. “One day he says, ‘You know, Jonathan, how come we don’t have a music and food festival in Nashville like they’re doing in Miami or L.A. or San Francisco?’ And I said, ‘Well, let’s make it happen.’ And it was as simple as that.”

After getting Vector Management’s Ken Levitan and Andy Mendelsohn on board, along with Austin-based C3 Presents, a couple of years later, the vision became a reality. A delicious reality.

While it was difficult to tear oneself away from the delectable eats and drinks in the tasting tents, the dynamic cooking demonstrations lured us in. We caught the lovely Trisha Yearwood making a Southern favorite, sausage balls. She immediately charmed the crowd, saying, “Thank you for showing up—when I got here, there were about 10 people here, so I panicked!” Oh, Trisha! We love you. She also gave us the inside scoop on some of her favorite Nashville restaurants, like Rotier’s—she likes the fried chicken livers—and SILO, remarking that the food scene had changed since she moved here in 1985, when “we pretty much had a Shoney’s.”

We also watched a lively demo from the gorgeous Giada de Laurentis, who invited Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill and his wife, singer-songwriter Jessie Baylin, to assist her as she prepped a hearty salad. While Jessie certainly knew her way around the kitchen, we learned that it was the first time that Nathan had cracked an egg. We also learned that Giada’s favorite cocktail is tequila on ice with freshsqueezed orange, although she did try a Pabst with her fried bologna sandwich the night before at Robert’s. Perhaps she’ll try that out on her show?

On Saturday evening, Music City Eats offered a farm-to-palate extravaganza at the Walk of Fame Park featuring an all-star pantheon of guest chefs including Jonathan Waxman, Aaron Sanchez, Jon Shook, Vinny Dotolo and John Besh. Following the dinner, War Memorial Auditorium welcomed Petty Fest Nashville, which featured an all-star pantheon of musicians—Kings of Leon, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, Norah Jones, Patrick Carney, Jakob Dylan, Buddy Miller, Ruby Amanfu and more—celebrating all things Petty.

Sunday afternoon offered another bounty of food and drinks, capping a wonderful weekend filled with tastings, book signings, demonstrations and panels featuring locals like Mangia’s Nick Pellegrino, Margot’s Margot McCormack and City House’s Tandy Wilson and visiting chefs like Tim Love, Nancy Silverton and Michael Symon.

And, looking forward, Jonathan is enthusiastic about Nashville’s evolving epicurean community.

“Nashville, in the last five or 10 years, has grown up as a culinary town,” Jonathan said. “I just adore it—you’re lucky to be in a great place. It’s not just the music or the food, the people are just great.”

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NEW RESTAURANT ROUNDUP The culinary scene in Nashville is rapidly growing in stature and diversity, creating a veritable melting pot of different tastes and cultural influences that mirrors the booming growth of the city. We talked to some of the most exciting players in the game—some so new that they won’t even be open at press time—so you can get a jump on the rest of the crowd clamoring for a reservation. Whether you’re looking for a break from holiday entertaining, somewhere to grab a quick lunch or the next hot place to have dinner with your friends, you have options, and a lot of them! We asked some of our favorite chefs to tell you what to expect in their new establishments, and what to order when you get there.

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Cherry Street Eatery & Sweetery

West Lobby of Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 1 Symphony Place nashvillesymphony.org/dining Opened September 2013 The chef: Meg Giuffrida (Red Wagon, Turnip Truck)

What to expect: The no-frills lunch stop (it’s open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays and two hours before Symphony shows and events on weekends) is easily accessible via the courtyard at the Schermerhorn, making it a great place to stop for a quick lunch or a bite before a show.

And even though Meg doesn’t have a full kitchen, she’s serving up some of the tastiest sandwiches and salads you’ll find downtown, including some old favorites from beloved East Nashville outpost Red Wagon, like her famous pimento cheese sandwich. Meg, who planned the Cherry Street concept and menu in just a week, says that she’s motivated by what she feels like eating at the time. “I know I’m not breaking new ground,” she humbly says. “I’m sticking with what I do best, making yummy breakfast and lunch food.” Meg offers baked goods from Dozen Bakery, Wolfe Gourmet Cakes and Drew’s Brews Coffee. Also, two of her employees are Magdalene House graduates, and she hopes to employ more.

What to order: Meg says that one of her most popular items has been the sesame chicken salad: a hearty mix of chicken, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, shredded carrots, apples, almonds, raisins and cilantro. You can get it on a bed of mixed greens with ginger soy dressing, or as a sandwich on toasted Provence whole grain farm bread.

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The chef: Josh Habiger (The Catbird Seat, The Patterson House)

The chef: Trey Cioccia (Capitol Grille, Cantina Laredo)

What to expect: The highly-anticipated Pinewood Social, Strategic Hospitality’s latest endeavor, promises to be like nothing you’ve ever seen in the 615. In addition to offering breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with a late-night menu and brunch on the weekends, the Rolling Mill Hill establishment will have a six-lane bowling alley, an outdoor pool with cabanas and a reconditioned Airstream fashioned into a tiki bar. Meeting rooms by day transform into private dinner rooms—we hear there may be karaoke—by night. The food will be Americana style, with simple dishes executed in a modern way. Expect exceptional coffee from CREMA and large format menu items, i.e. family-style. “It’s a social club, we want to be as social as possible,” Josh explains.

What to expect: While it seems like everyone is boasting that they’re farm-to-table nowadays, Mt. Juliet native Trey Cioccia walks the walk, sourcing food for The Farm House from 21 area farms (ask him where he gets his eggs, and you’ll learn all about the friendly Amish farmer with 11 children).

Located in the ground floor of the Encore in SoBro, he personally hauled the reclaimed barnwood that covers the interior from Knoxville, transforming the sterile room into a homey place at the juxtaposition of rustic and upscale. In fact, everything about the new establishment exemplifies Trey’s vision—he says it originated when he was only 14—for The Farm House, a place that is suitable for an anniversary dinner or for a casual lunch. The bar offers inventive gratis snacks that change every day, from housemade “Cheez-its” to boiled peanut hummus with cornmeal bacon “chips.”

What to order: “I’m looking forward to the fried chicken,” Josh says. “It seems to be ubiquitous, but I think using well-sourced chicken and frying it under a pressurized fryer will create a better end product.”

The chicken, which will be extra moist yet crispy as it’s fried longer at a lower temperature, will be served in white paper buckets, which will make it easy to pass around the table for seconds.

What to order: The pork belly agnolotti is a wonderful example of how Trey melds his Italian heritage with his Southern roots. This dish features Bear Creek Farm pork belly shredded and stuffed into hand-rolled pasta with house bacon, malted cream, mustards, peas and Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese’s Ted, a five-year aged white cheddar.

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Music City Tippler

The 404 Hotel & Kitchen

The Treehouse Restaurant 1011 Clearview Avenue treehousenashville.com Opened October 2013

2316 12th Avenue South josephineon12th.com Expected opening: Late November

The chef: Abe Tsavalakoglou (Aria in Las Vegas)

The chef: Matt Bolus (Flyte, Watermark)

The chef: Todd Alan Martin (Lockeland Table, Watanabe)

The chef: Andrew Little (Sheppard Mansion in Hanover, Penn.)

What to expect: According to executive chef Abe Tsavalakoglou, Music City Tippler is “casual yet upscale with an ungapatchka theme” (I had to Google it, too—a Yiddish word meaning “a little of everything”). Located in the Adelicia, the Tippler is the first place in Nashville to offer draft cocktails, and they also have a late-night bar menu for night owls and a lively, fun atmosphere great for larger groups or date nights. Chef Abe says that a lot of his food has those “old-school Greek grandmother flairs,” as he was raised in the kitchen. “The best chef I know is mom,” he says. “She always said, ‘less is more’ and ‘simple is best.’” As for the menu, which Abe says is an American Rotisserie concept with a great craft cocktail menu, it’s clear that he definitely listened to his mother: “I like to keep things simple, but out-ofthe-box creative.”

What to expect: Here’s another first for Nashville: a five-room luxury boutique hotel located adjacent to The Station Inn in the epicenter of the Gulch. Anchoring this new hotel is The 404 Kitchen, with 40 indoor seats and 16 on the patio, housed in a former storage container.

The space is sleek and modern, nodding to the industrial architecture of the building, and not one square inch is wasted—Chef Matt Bolus joked that the kitchen attire will be “olive oil and Speedos.” Matt and his team will offer a new take on classic European fare, or as Matt describes it, “quality food in a casual atmosphere that’s fresh, honest and uncomplicated.”

What to expect: East Nashville’s Five Points is known for its tight-knit sense of community, and The Treehouse is a welcome addition to the neighborhood of eclectic, independent restaurants and shops. The Treehouse embodies the very spirit of its name: an escape, a place you can go to let your imagination run wild.

You’ll spot it by the colorful treehouse outside, and inside, you’ll find beautiful woodwork by Martin Cadieux and handmade plates by Sarah Longenecker in the welcoming 42-seat space. The menu will rotate frequently but focus on the cuisine of the Americas (Central and South America) and Asia, with Southern accents. The kitchen will be open until 1 a.m. on weeknights and 3 a.m. on the weekends to feed those night owls.

What to expect: Josephine is the newest offering from Miranda Whitcomb Pontes—Burger Up, Frothy Monkey— which is part of Community Hospitality, who will also open Prima in the Terrazzo in the Gulch in Spring 2014. Chef Andy Little, who moved from Pennsylvania to Nashville in August, says that Josephine will be a welcoming neighborhood restaurant offering great food in a comfortable environment. And while many establishments try to buy local, Andy takes it a step further, visiting the farms so he can see the animals and the produce. As for the menu, which will change seasonally, Andy says that it’s Modern American fare that will take products from the area prepared with respect; an early menu draft shows plenty of fresh vegetables, smoked duck confit, beef cheeks, scallops and a tantalizing dessert menu—save us some malted milk cake, please!

1922 Adelicia Street musiccitytippler.com Opened August 2013

What to order: For fall, Abe recommends the roasted heirloom beet salad, which his grandmother used to make for him. “I fell in love as a child, and I reconstructed this salad into a gorgeous masterpiece,” he says. The colorful dish is comprised of roasted gold and red beets dressed with confit garlic toasted pine nuts. The beets are garnished with frisée lettuce, fresh herbs, Maldon flake salt and cipollini onion vinaigrette.

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What to order: Classically French trained, Matt believes that nature makes it best, and keeps things as close to nature as possible. He recommends the burrata, which starts with Caputo Brothers curd, which is then turned into mozzarella, pulled into strings, and mixed with Devon cream to make stracciatella.

Matt pulls more mozzarella from the curd, and then stuffs the stracciatella into that. This dish can be executed many ways, and Matt plans to try fresh truffles, buttermilk or pimento to mix things up. This particular version is served with white wine-braised celery, apples, walnuts and lemon Agrumato.

What to order: Chef Todd Alan Martin, who studied at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio, says the Tiradito, a Japanese-inspired Peruvian type of raw fish ceviche, is one of his favorites on the menu. Todd used mahi mahi in this version, covering the fish in a bright yellow spicy sauce made of aji amarillo chilies, and dressed with flavorful black mint leaves, tomatillo, pecans, masago and huacatay. It’s light and ideal for sharing, like many of the dishes on the Treehouse menu.

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What to order: Andy recommends the rabbit dumpling, which he says feels like “fall in Nashville” without necessarily being “comfort food.” He starts with an apple cider reduction, adding potato dumplings, country ham, sage and mushrooms to balance the sweetness of the braised rabbit, resulting in a dish that he says “wraps you up like a sweater.”

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They married in June at Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Reverend Doctor Carson Salyer officiating. Organist Doctor Polly Brecht serenaded guests as they arrived, and soloist Chris Simonsen sang. As a nod to the bride’s Scottish heritage, she processed to “Highland Cathedral” performed by bagpiper Jay Dawson.

Escorted by her father, Jack Frederick King, and her stepfather, Thomas Francis Corcoran, Langhorne wore a strapless gown of Thai silk fashioned by Modern Trousseau and a cathedral length illusion and lace veil made by family friend Zahra Zare. Terry White of the English Garden

designed her bouquet, which included photographs of each of the bride’s grandparents to honor them. Bridesmaids wore Tiffany blue gowns and carried blue hydrangeas with white roses and green hypericum berries.

Piano music greeted guests for the reception at Belle Meade Country Club, and waiters served specialty cocktails of pink lemonade, mint and vodka accented with a raspberry. A seated dinner followed in the ballroom decorated with antiqued gold candelabra draped with blue hydrangeas and white roses. Tiffany blue boxes served as place cards on the tables covered with pale gold sheers topped with intricately beaded overlays. Guests dined on filet mignon, carrot flan, roasted fingerling potatoes and green beans. Dessert Designs made the chocolate ganache, caramel and sour cream pound cake.

After dinner, action moved to the dance tent awash in Tiffany blue lighting with chandeliers hanging over the dance floor and the bourbon/

champagne specialty bar. Burning Las Vegas, performing on a Lucite stage backlit with the couple’s initials, featured a special Michael Jackson set where each guest received a single white glove that glowed in black light.

White sofas with Tiffany blue pillows provided seating for those guests who preferred to watch, and a photo booth produced mementoes of the evening. Event coordinator Jayne Bubis saw to every detail. The newlyweds departed in a vintage blue Jaguar, and guests went home with Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

After a wedding trip to St. Lucia, the couple returned to Nashville where she works on special projects in the development office at Montgomery Bell Academy and he is a senior web developer for Optimum Solutions. Langhorne is a graduate of University School of Nashville and University of Texas at Austin. Andrew is an alumnus of Kings High School in Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati.

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Wishing Chair Productions’ whimsical puppets bring the classic story to life while introducing children to the Nashville Symphony. November 16. Tickets $14-23. Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 1 Symphony Place, 687-6500, nashvillesymphony.org.

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New Works: New Directions Fresh faces, work and perspectives are the focus of this collection of contemporary American Realism pieces. Through November 16. Gratis.

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The Paintings of Bob Short Symbolism is the key to this Tennessee resident and visionary artist’s paintings. Through December 29. Gratis.

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The Producers A has-been Broadway producer conspires to create a flop, but his plan is thwarted when the dud becomes a smash hit. Through November 16. Tickets $12-27. Boiler Room Theatre, 230 Franklin Road, Building 6, Franklin, 794-7744, boilerroomtheatre.com.

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ublic sculpture used to be easy. Slap a bronze honoree on a bronze horse and be done with it. No more. Here in the new millennium, Nashville gets an homage to a derailed roller coaster on the East Bank and what looks like a field full of gigantic pick-up sticks at the new Eighth Avenue roundabout. “[The] 750K project near Music City Center is city’s priciest,” read the The Tennessean headline. (I should hope so.) “A well-known California artist,” Charles Moeller, is responsible. Charles is a native of Germany, and a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA for you civilians). The piece consists of “a collection of 30 javenlike [sic] structures made of red cedar wood.”

Each is 85 feet long and 21 inches in diameter.

The sculpture was “inspired by native American themes and colors” according to The Tennessean. So what exactly are Native American colors and how are they different from, say, Polish American colors? That’s murky.

Then why not just call it “politically correct” themes and colors and get it over with?

There’s a long list of people and things I might have honored with a sculpture before choosing these two abstract pieces: Hank Williams, think Colossus of Rhodes (tourists would love it); a biscuit the size of a city bus (makes more sense than Claes Oldenburg’s 45-feet high clothespin in Philadelphia); Sequoyah, if I’m playing the Native American chord (he created the written language for the Cherokees); and maybe a portrait sculpture of Rosa Parks by a local African American sculptor (we have the street, why not the monument?).

“We felt like we needed an artist of national caliber,” the executive director of the arts commission told The

Tennessean. Nah. What we needed was a sculpture of national caliber that resonates with Nashvillians. Did we get it?

Sometimes I think we as Southerners are so worried somebody will mistake us for hicks, we bend over backwards and then some to defer to folks that aren’t from around here. In the ’50s, this may have been appropriate. (How many nanoseconds would Musica have lasted in 1952?)

But today, what local art lover hasn’t been to MOMA and the Met and the Guggenheim in New York, the museum at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Louvre and the Picasso museum in Paris, the Tate in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburg, and all those freebie museums in D.C., not to mention the traveling exhibits at the Frist? And that’s not all. Rumor has it that some local folk even have a masterpiece or two hanging on their living room walls.

People in Nashville who care about art, who care about what piece of sculpture goes in a roundabout, are no longer intimidated. They get it. So, I’ll go ahead and say it: “the emperor has no clothes.” And no amount of huffing and puffing from on high is going to change that.

So who decides next time around when another three quarters of a million dollars comes up for grabs? Here’s the beginning of a list, in random order: Martha Ingram, Anne Brown, somebody from the Frist family, James Threalkill, Carol Stein, Alan LeQuire, Ron York, Michael McBride and Arunima Orr. No, I didn’t call them.

And by the way, don’t even think about calling moi. To paraphrase Mr. Marx, I wouldn’t be a part of any selection committee that would have me as a member.

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don’t ordinarily attend estate sales. Attracted to them, curious about what treasures might be within, yes. But I try not to indulge in habits that will cost me in the long run. Live by the estate sale, die by the estate sale, warns my inner CFO. It’s hard enough to part with anything I already own, so I resist the temptation to collect things I can’t afford and don’t have room for. Nine years ago after my mother had died, my sister and I sold almost everything in my parents’ house in a focused and fearful frenzy, hoping to add a little something to my dad’s lifetime earnings for his daily care.

I let go of gifts from my siblings (not sure they thought this was such a good idea), the Mme. Alexander cast of dolls from Little Women, handmade costumes (the most wonderful Queen of Hearts costume with real faux ermine trim!), my mother’s wedding gown and my own. And many, many books collected by two people who loved reading so much they owned a bookstore.

As I offered the latest best sellers to the lady running the sale, she said, “Those are best sellers because they’re in everybody’s house,” as she tagged several with a $3 sticker. It felt as if we were thrusting the stuff of our parents’ lives before the altar of fate, devaluing it while hoping to find favor there somehow.

I ran into a friend recently who was having a sale for happier reasons. Even so, it’s hard to part with special things. I dropped by hop-

ing to find some little girl toys for my 16-month-old granddaughter. I bought a lovely multimedia art piece for her room at my house; a giant stuffed tiger, since her latest fascination is growling like a big cat; and several costumes because a costume closet is a wondrous thing. “My mother made these for my girls,” said Dallas, fingering featherweight skirts in which snowballs floated. “They were snow princesses.”

To the untrained eye, maybe this looked like inexpensive white netting and Styrofoam, but I could see the magic. There was also an old Mother Goose book that I found hard to put down. “That belonged to my grandmother,” Dallas said. It was a book I remember my mother reading to me, in those idyllic days when I was an only child. I flipped through the pages and could hear my mother reading “Hickory Dickory Dock” before I could even conceive of what sort of creature a mouse might be.

Though I went home with a backseat full of small treasures, the Mother Goose book was not one of them. Remorse filled my dreams that night though, so the next morning I drove back to see whether it was still there. Binding peeling, there it sat atop a stack of small toys.

This time, for $3, the book went with me when I left. It occurred to me that the sentimentality Dallas and I feel over a book loved long ago would be lost on a little person who might see only an old tattered book. But I remember relishing the Big Little Books from my mother’s childhood I discovered at my grandmother’s house.

I still can’t tell whether the book of nursery rhymes and the costumes were for Mamie—or for me. But I began to feel that some of the most precious items we sold had come back home.

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We had our fill of buffalo tenderloin, tuna ceviche, polenta, and the incredible cream puffs paired with Whisper Creek Sipping Cream. One thing everyone could agree on was how fabulous the night’s honoree was, Miss Misty Ellis of Nashville CARES, who was distinguished as Family Life Educator of the Year.

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09.28.13 At Conexión Américas’ Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, the packed house enjoyed authentic Latin American food— pupusas, empanadas and taquitos, oh my!—and live Latin music. The event honored Luz Belleza-Binns and Anne Moctezuma-Galicia with the Orgullo Hispano (“Hispanic Pride”) award, and celebrated former board member Kaki Friskics-Warren for her work with Casa Azafrán and Justice for Our Neighbors.

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November 2013 What: Conservancy Gala For: The Conservancy: Parthenon and Centennial Park When: Sat., Nov. 2, 7 p.m.

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02 What: Chili Cook-off Where: Factory at Franklin Tariff: $75 per person For: Linda’s Hope Info: feedamericafirst.com When: Sat., Nov. 2, 3 p.m.

Where: Home of Ford Tomlin 07 What: National Philanthropy Day Tariff: $20 per person Awards Luncheon Info: lindashope.org For: Association of 02 What: Harvest Moon Ball Fundraising Professionals When: Thurs., Nov. 7, 11 a.m.

For: Second Harvest Food Bank Where: Music City Center When: Sat., Nov. 2, 6 p.m.

Party note: Honoring Vince Gill Where: Second Harvest Food Bank Tariff: $55 per person Co-chairs: Barbara Anne Corbett, Info: afpnashville.org Libby Scanlan and Holly Williams Tariff: $250 per person 08 What: Literary Award Patrons Info: secondharvestmidtn.org/ For: Nashville Public Library harvestmoonball When: Fri., Nov. 8, 6 p.m.

03 Where: Home of Margaret What: A Women’s Thanksgiving Ann Robinson For: Renewal House Info: nplf.org/gala When: Sun., Nov. 3, 5 p.m.

Where: Millennium Maxwell 08 What: Big Kid Night House Hotel For: Nashville Children’s Theatre Tariff: $75 per person When: Fri., Nov. 8, 5:30 p.m.

Info: renewalhouse.org Where: Nashville Children’s Theatre 05 Tariff: $30 per person What: Hands on Heart Reception Info: nashvillechildrenstheatre.org For: American Heart Association When: Tues., Nov. 5, 5:30 p.m.

08 What: Taste of Nashville Where: Bridge Building For: Phoenix Club for Boys Info: 340-4118 and Girls Club 06 When: Fri., Nov. 8, 7 p.m.

What: Birthday Breakfast Where: Rocketown For: Faith Family Medical Center Chair: Allen Grant When: Wed., Nov. 6, 7:30 a.m.

Info: tasteofnashville.com Where: Woodmont Christian Church 09 What: American Girl Fashion Show Party note: Honoring For: Mercy Community Healthcare Tom Henderson When: Sat., Nov. 9, 10 a.m.

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What: Fall Leadership Luncheon For: Young Leaders Council When: Wed., Nov. 13, 11 a.m.

Where: Renaissance Hotel Tariff: $45 per person Info: ylcnashville.org What: Christmas Village For: Vandy Bill Wilkerson Center When: Nov. 15-17 Where: TN State Fairgrounds Tariff: $10 per person Info: christmasvillage.org What: Laughter for the Children For: Monroe Harding When: Fri., Nov. 15, 6 p.m.

Where: OZ Nashville Party note: Honorary chair Rodney Atkins Tariff: $120 per person Info: laughterforthechildren.com What: Party with a Purpose For: Best Buddies When: Fri., Nov. 15, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Rocketown Tariff: $65 per person Info: bestbuddiestennessee.org/ champion What: Sparkle and Twang VII For: State Museum When: Fri., Nov. 15, 8 p.m.

Where: Bridge Building Tariff: $90 per person Info: tnmuseum.org What: A Mad Men Affair For: Nashville Opera When: Sat., Nov. 16, 7 p.m.

Where: Lexus of Nashville Tariff: $350 per person Info: nashvilleopera.org/madmen

17 What: Music with a Mission For: Nashville Rescue Mission When: Sun., Nov. 17, 7 p.m.

Where: Schermerhorn Symphony Center Tariff: $32-$115 per person Info: mwmnashville.org

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Where: Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Party note: Award to Mike Curb Tariff: $300 per person Info: mhamt.org

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Where: Country Music Hall of Fame Tariff: $125 general Info: starsnashville.org What: The Boulevard Bolt For: Homeless of Nashville When: Thurs., Nov. 28, 8 a.m.

Where: Belle Meade Boulevard Tariff: $35 per person Info: boulevardbolt.org What: Bal d’Hiver For: CASA, Family and Children’s Service and Kappa Alpha Theta Scholarship Fndtn.

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Where: Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Co-chairs: Elizabeth Coble and Laura Dale Info: nashvillethetas.org

What: Literary Award Gala For: Nashville Public Library When: Sat., Nov. 9, 6:30 p.m.

Where: Nashville Public Library, Downtown Co-chairs: Kate Satz and Jessica Viner Party note: Honoring Robert K. Massie Tariff: $500 per person Info: nplf.org/gala

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ne hundred years ago, St. Luke’s Community House opened their doors and West Nashville has never been the same. What started as a free medical clinic has evolved into a family resource center, serving and meeting the needs of the working poor of West Nashville. Throughout the years, a tireless and selfless army of volunteers and staff have helped make St. Luke’s mission a reality, dedicating their time and finances to this very worthy cause. A mainstay of the nonprofit’s fundraising and service efforts, the This ’N That Thrift Store, opened its doors in 1971 as both a place for affordable goods for neighborhood residents and a source of income for St. Luke’s Child Development Program. It’s also been home to some of the organization’s most dedicated volunteers, men and women who to this day continue to invest their time and energy into enriching West Nashville and serving its residents. We salute St. Luke’s century of service. Here’s to the next 100 years!

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