Black Culinary Arts Dinner

Last night Marchette and I got all dressed up for the BCA annual fundraising dinner.



The BCA is a nationwide non-profit, educational and networking organization of hospitality and food service professionals. Its mission is to create exposure and provide educational and professional opportunities for culinary and hospitality professionals of color. They provide quality educational and employment resources, job coaching, mentoring and assistance with placement, and networking support. Additionally, the BCA exposes inner-city high school students to the culinary arts through a series of workshops that serve to introduce culinary arts as a viable career option.

Our company hosts BCA workshops and employs BCA interns.
























The students from various BCA member schools prepared the cocktail reception food, the main dinner, and dessert.





















We were joined by my coworkers Susan Stockton( with husband Rick), Patalia Tate (with her charming date Bernard).

March Update

I like to write something at least once a month, so here's an update on some random stuff that's been happening to me over the past 4-6 weeks.

Marchette has really been into modeling recently and has almost complete her own portfolio.


She was lucky enough to snag some tickets for the 2009 Mercedes Fashion Week events




We had bad snowstorm in February



And I was lucky enough to have some work to do in Miami Beach



where we entertained some of advertising clients, trying to get a greater share of their 2009 spending.



I also went to an awards dinner for our CEO where country star and 2008 Celebrity Apprentice runner-up Trace Adkins performed



The next week I attended a dinner for Diversity Inc magazine where Dr. Michael Eric Dyson gave the keynote speech.



and finally I spent one Sunday morning preparing Marty for the coming warmer temperatures by shaving all his hair.