Wine. Dine. Donate

NEW YORK, April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Epicurious.com, the premier award-winning website for people who love to eat, announces the second annual Wine. Dine. Donate restaurant series to mark National Hunger Awareness Day-- Tuesday, June 5, 2007 -- with a weeklong series of benefit dinners held at five of the country's top restaurants.

Epicurious.com's editor-in-chief Tanya Steel will host each dinner, which will feature courses cooked by the host chef and celebrity chef friends. Proceeds will benefit each city's local food bank through America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest charitable hunger-relief organization. This year's restaurant series schedule is:

  -- Monday, June 4, 6:30 p.m. - Blue Hill Restaurant, New York City
     ($150/person) Chefs Dan Barber (Blue Hill), Gabriel Kreuther (The
     Modern), Cyril Renaud (Fleur de Sel)
  -- Tuesday, June 5, 6:30 p.m. - Great Bay at the Hotel Commonwealth,
     Boston ($100/person) Chefs Michael Schlow (Great Bay, Via Matta,
     Radius), Seth and Angela Raynor (The Pearl), Joanne Chang (Flour)
  -- Wednesday, June 6, 6:30 p.m. - MK, Chicago ($100/person) Chefs Michael
     Kornick (MK), Kate Neumann (MK, pastry), Mark Chmielewski (Blue Water
     Grill), Michael Shrader (Nine Steakhouse)
  -- Thursday, June 7, 6:30 p.m. - Table 8, Los Angeles ($100/person) Chefs
     Govind Armstrong (Table 8), Neal Fraser (Grace/BLD), Ben Ford (Ford's
     Filling Station)
  -- Friday, June 8, 6:30 p.m. - Farallon, San Francisco ($100/person) Chefs

     Mark Franz (Farallon, Water Bar), Jan Birnbaum (Epic Roasthouse), Parke

     Ulrich (Water Bar), Terri Wu (Farallon, pastry)

For more information and to purchase tickets to the dinners, visit http://www.epicurious.com/donate

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