2017 Taste For a Cure Culinary Team Announced!!
It’s official! Can you believe the 2017 Taste For a Cure Gala is almost here? We’re excited to announce the chef line up, and this... Read More
Taste For a Cure: Chef’s Retreat
Today I am overwhelmed with gratitude and excitement. Yesterday we had an opportunity to host a Chef’s Retreat for our Taste For a Cure Gala... Read More
Pastry Chef Extraordinaire!
Evan Sheridan is pastry chef of the Forbes Five Star, AAA Five Diamond The Umstead Hotel and Spa and its signature restaurant, Herons. We are... Read More
Oui, Chef: A Frenchmen’s Twist on Southern Faire
When I began planning the gala and started researching local chefs, there was one name that kept popping up. So many people in the local... Read More
Italian Meets Southern Boy
Justin Anderson is the sous chef at Gocciolina, an Italian restaurant in Durham recognized by Greg Cox of the News & Observer as the “2015 Restaurant of the... Read More
A Farmer and a Chef
I first met Geoff Seelen of Piedmont Biofarms while attending a Chicken Wire dinner this past July. My husband had called me over to taste his potato... Read More
Big Taste, Small Town
The first time I stepped into Harvest I was greeted by the amazing aromas that came out of the kitchen in this inviting and warm historic... Read More
Petals-Sassafras Fork Farm
A few months ago while in Oxford, NC I met Kathleen of Sassafras Fork Farm. How we met was serendipitous. At the time I was... Read More
MRA’s Recent Grant Funding: A Closer Look
Proceeds from Taste for the Cure will benefit Polka Dot Mama’s charitable partner, the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA). We carefully chose this organization out of... Read More
MRA Chief Science Officer Quoted in Allure
Is SPF clothing the new black? Louise M. Perkins, the chief science officer at the Melanoma Research Alliance, gets her moment in the sun, (figuratively,... Read More