Allez Cuisine! Get your oven mitts ready because this year the Pink Ribbon Luncheon is turning up the heat with guest speaker world renowned chef, Cat Cora. The only woman to win the Iron Chef and Bon Appetit Magazine’s Executive Chef, Cat Cora made her TV debut in 1999, as co-host of Food Network’s Melting Pot with Rocco Di Spirito. She went on to host My Country My Kitchen: Greece, Date Plate and Fine Living's Simplify Your Life. A documentary, Cat's In The Kitchen, was also made about her first James Beard dinner in April, 2002.

The Pink Ribbon is excited to have Cat Cora’s expertise instructing our guests on how to live well by cooking and eating healthy delicious food. Cora was raised in a small Greek community in Jackson, Mississippi where a shared meal was the center of family and community life. With advice from of her famous mentor Julia Child, Cat left Mississippi to train at the Culinary Institute of America in New York City, followed by prominent apprenticeships under Chefs Anne Rozenweig and Larry Forgione in New York and chefs George Blanc and Roger Verge in France.

Outside of the kitchen, Cat is known for her philanthropy and is very generous with her time serving as one of 15 of the world’s most prominent chefs on the Macy’s Culinary Council. She is also the President and Founder of Chefs for Humanity, a non-profit organization modeled after Doctors without Borders to support those in emergency and hunger-related crises. Most recently Cat Cora was named nutritional spokesperson for UNICEF. We hope you will join us and Cat Cora for a fun, insightful, and delicious 9th Annual Pink Ribbon Luncheon on Monday, October 4, 2010 at the Duke Energy Convention Center!

For more information about the 9th Annual Pink Ribbon Luncheon, please visit www.pinkribbonluncheon.org.

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