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Celebrity Chefs Gather for GMHC's Annual Savor Event

Hosted by Food Network's Ted Allen

On Monday, March 8, 2010, GMHC and Ted Allen of Food Network’s Chopped hosted Savor, GMHC’s annual culinary fundraiser at Gotham Hall.  The glamorous evening began with cocktails and a silent auction, followed by a decadent four-course dinner and Passing the Whisk: a fast-paced, culinary relay featuring the star-chef judges from Food Network’s Chopped.  Participating chefs included: Amanda Freitag of The Harrison, Alex Guarnaschelli of Butter, Marc Murphy of Landmarc, Aaron Sanchez of Paladar, Chris Santos of Stanton Social and Geoffrey Zakarian of The Lambs Club.    

Some of New York’s most high-profile names in theatre, philanthropy and the culinary world stepped out to support the evening’s honorees and long-time GMHC supporters, Dr. Yvette C. Burton, Senior Global Business Development Executive for IBM, and philanthropist and theatrical producer, Ted Snowdon, for their ongoing dedication to the fight against HIV/AIDS. 

More than 480 guests attended raising nearly $500,000 in support of GMHC’s care services, HIV prevention, and advocacy efforts including its Meals Program which addresses hunger by providing warm meals, nutrition counseling, and a food pantry to thousands of low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS every year.   At the end of the night, guests received a Savor cookbook, which included recipes from the evening’s chefs and other GMHC supporters including:  Bethenny Frankel, Tim Gunn, Liz Smith and Joan Tisch.

Attendees included: Dr. Marjorie Hill, GMHC’s CEO, Yvette Burton, Ted Snowdon, Ted Allen, Amanda Freitag, Alex Guarnaschelli, Marc Murphy, Aaron Sanchez, Chris Santos, Anita Jaffe, Jean Doumanian, Jerry and Mary Frankel, Leslie F. Pomerantz, Charlotte Moore, Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton, Emily Tisch-Sussman, Robert Tuschman, Bruce Seidel, Dana Tyler, Felicia Taylor, Tim Gill, Evan Wolfson, Bronson Van Wyck, Emma Snowdon Jones, Georgette Farkas, Kipton Cronkite, Catherine Moellering, Scott Frankel and Jim Joseph, Reid Williams, John Knott, Christian Leone, Andrew Sedlock, Christopher Spitzmiller.

About GMHC: GMHC is a not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS. We provide prevention, treatment and care services to more than 15,000 men, women and families that are living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS in New York City, and advocate for scientific, evidence-based public health solutions for hundreds of thousands worldwide. GMHC’s mission is to fight to end the AIDS epidemic and uplift the lives of all affected.

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