NKF-MD Reveals Menu for Sante: A Culinary Odyssey, Nov. 20

LUTHERVILLE, Md. – To whet your appetite, the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland is offering a menu preview of its 5th annual Santé: A Culinary Odyssey celebration, taking place Thursday, Nov. 20, from 6 to 10 p.m., at the M&T Bank Stadium, North Club Level Lounge in downtown Baltimore.

As the area’s premier cuisine event, Santé will feature signature dishes from over 45 top local chefs. Restaurants and caterers will compete for awards voted on by celebrity judges. They also will vie to be named the People’s Choice winner. To date, the evening’s bill of fare includes the following:

Aida Bistro: Trio of Dips

B&O: Wild Boar & Yam Sausage

Barrett’s Grill: Roasted Corn and Crab Chowder

Bertha’s: Mussels

Birroteca: Crispy Pork Belly with Fig Agro Dolce

Black Tie Caterers:Suckling Crusted Pit Beef on Toast Points

Brio Tuscan Grille:Shrimp and Lobster Campanelle

Café Hon: Famous Bread Pudding

Clementine: Pate/ appetizers

Cooking with Catherine:Dark Chocolate Coconut Almond Clusters

Corner BYOB: Braised Tongue Tacos

Dooby’s: Pork Buns

George Martin’s Grillfire: Pan roasted sea scallop with andouille sausage and sweet corn grits

Grano Emporio: Frittata Di Pasta Fiorentina and Frittata Di Pasta Alla Norma

Heavy Seas: Pumpkin soup with heavy seas peg leg stout and warm fall spices

Laurrapin: Roasted butternut fondant filled with smoked pork rillettes

Maggie’s Farm: Rettland Farm Bacon Pate

Natasha’s Just Brittle: Maple Bacon Brittle & Maple Bacon Brittle Popcorn

Nutreatious: Nutreatious Grownups’ Cookies & Milk

Portalli’s: Espresso Panna Cotta

Richardson Farms: Whole Suckling Pig

Sobo Café: Baltimore’s Best Biscuit

Stratford University: Pastry and Dessert Display

Sugar and Ice: An assortment of candy

Taharka Brothers: Pumpkin spice ice cream and salted caramel ice cream

Talara: Chipotle and Tropical Fruit Ceviche

Tark’s Grill: Pumpkin & Wild Mushroom Risotto

Ten Ten American Bistro: Cunningham Farms Pork Belly

The Boathouse: Lobster Cavatappi and Cheese

The House of Audré: Samosas and Peri-Peri Sauce

Wit and Wisdom: Roasted butternut squash soup

Warehouse 518: Dixie Shrimp and Grit Canapé

The Nickel Taphouse: Chicken Roulade

Adding to the fun will be a signature drink, interactive food demonstrations, live entertainment and a silent auction featuring sports memorabilia, dining, entertainment, local art, spa, health and fitness, and vacation packages.
Guests also can raise their paddles to directly support the local kidney community by contributing to the evening’s Fund-The-Mission campaign.

The live auction will offer the chance to win one-of-a-kind experiences in the live auction, including a Meet & Greet with The NFL Today Team where two people can meet host, James Brown, and analysts, Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, Tony Gonzalez and Bart Scott, and watch the pre-game and half-time broadcasts and all the day’s games from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York.

Father and daughter duo, Jim and Lindsey Duquette will serve as mission speakers. Jim is a former Baltimore Orioles executive and current baseball analyst who donated a kidney to Lindsey, in 2012, when she was 10 years old. The pair is doing well and will briefly share their experience at Santé in order to put local faces to kidney disease.

Event honorees are Lawrence J. Appel, M.D., M.P.H. (C. David Molina Professor of Medicine and Director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) and Jonathan S. Bromberg, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Surgery and Microbiology and Immunology and Chief of the Division of Transplantation at the University of Maryland School of Medicine).

Sponsorship chair is Stuart Bowers (president, DST Brokerage Solutions) and restaurant committee chair is Ben Simpkins CEC CCA WCC (executive chef at Richardson Farms, who was on dialysis following a car accident at age 16 before receiving one of his mother’s kidneys in a transplant the following year).

Proceeds from Santé will fund vital research at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, and directly support NKF-MD’s patient emergency assistance program, which provides essentials such as food, housing costs, utilities, medication and transportation to dialysis.

Admission is $125 per person for as-available lounge seating, $250 per person for a reserved seat and $2,500 for a reserved table for 10. Sponsorships are also available. For admission, sponsorship or auction donation information, visit www.santebaltimore.com or contact Averil Christens-Barry at 410.494.8545 or achristens-barry@kidneymd.org.

About NKF-MD
Now celebrating its 50th year as an affiliate, The National Kidney Foundation of Maryland, serving central and western Maryland, the Delmarva Peninsula and portions of West Virginia, is the area’s only voluntary health agency dedicated to the prevention, treatment and cure of kidney and urinary tract diseases. For more information, visit www.kidneymd.org.