Chances are if you’re reading this you don’t
know SAM. SAM is a nickname for Severe Acute Malnutrition, affecting 20 million
children worldwide each year and is the cause driving chefs from Aria, Table 1280 and other Atlanta restaurants to jam
out with peanut butter, creating PBJ for Good menu specials. Table 1280, for
example, gussies up the spreads in a peanut butter and jelly mousse bar dessert
of freshly baked homemade sponge cake with peanut butter mousse and strawberry
gelée. From World Hunger Day, Friday, October 16 through Sunday, October 25,
participating restaurants will donate sales proceeds from their chefs’ PB&J
creations to STOP SAM
so the nonprofit can purchase and provide Mother Administered Nutritive Aid
(MANA) to malnourished children around the world. The lifesaving packets of
RUTF, Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, are a simple blend of fortified peanut
butter, milk and nutrients made right here in Georgia. Eating just three MANA
packets a day for six to seven weeks returns a SAM-suffering child to
sustainable good health.
Time to call it curtains on a day at the office and dabble in a little wine tasting at Table 1280 at the Woodruff Arts Center. Receive 10 wine tastes for $15 on Wednesday, August 26 beginning at 5:30 p.m. (not including tax or gratuity). It’s worth remembering that Table 1280 stages these wine tastings on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. No need to bow out early, the restaurant offers a dinner menu of locally sourced, farm-to-fork fare until 8 p.m.
All bottled up after a long workweek? Pop the cork on half-priced bottles of wine all summer long at Table 1280 in the Woodruff Arts Center. For lunch, dinner or before an Atlanta Symphony performance or Alliance Theatre production, slip into Table 1280 for “Wine Down Fridays” and a menu brimming with local, farm-to-fork fare. Open Fridays from 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Make reservations online or call 404-897-1280.
This year, the theme of the
High Museum Atlanta Wine
Auction celebrates generations of both winemaking and auction families
during “Legends of the Vine” wine week, March 26-29. The annual auction is the
sixth-largest charity wine auction in the U.S. Guest winemakers and Atlanta’s
top chefs cook throughout Atlanta on Wednesday, March 26, to participate in
multi-course winemaker dinners with wine pairings at host homes. Aqua blue, Aria, Chicken and the Egg, No. 246 and Table 1280 are all
taking part in various auction-related events. Tip for next year’s timeline:
buy your tickets early. This year’s winemaker dinners and Saturday night’s vintners’
reception and live auction are sold out!
