"Chefs and Chiefs" Dinner Nov. 17 Will Benefit Chucalissa Museum
For release: Nov. 7, 2002
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Six courses plus six wines plus six stellar chefs will equal one spectacular evening Sunday, Nov. 17, at "Chefs and Chiefs: A Benefit Dinner for Chucalissa." The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. at Chez Phillipe at The Peabody. A silent auction will also be conducted from 6 to 9 p.m.

Chefs participating in this unique fund-raiser are Karen Blockman Carrier, Erling Jensen, Judd Grisanti, Scott Lenhart, Stan Gibson, and Chez Phillipe's José Gutierrez.

The menu will include striped bass with crayfish, crispy skin rainbow trout with smoked catfish and soybeans, venison a la "tom-tom" with muscadine sauce and sweet potatoes frites, and crème brule with wild river berries. The dishes will all be made with foods that were originally found only in the "New World" before Europeans arrived.

Tickets are $125 per person. Proceeds will support Chucalissa Archaeological Museum, a reconstructed Native American village, which is operated by the Department of Anthropology at The University of Memphis. The national historic landmark is located on a 187-acre tract of land in southwest Memphis. It is home to the C.H. Nash Museum, the museum's associated collections and research facilities, as well as a reconstructed 15th century Native American village located on an actual archaeological site.

For reservations, call Jay Turney or Juanita Odin at 901-528-4188.

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