Chefs to End Hunger

 

Vesta Foodservice established nonprofit, Chefs to End Hunger in 2012 to facilitate the redistribution of prepared food from hotel, restaurant, and other foodservice customers to local charitable organizations that serve meals to their communities in need.

Chefs to end Hunger  provides free of charge kits; cardboard boxes, aluminum food pans, plastic bags and labels to our foodservice partners. They  also provide pick up services for all donated food items and deliver them to organizations in the Los Angeles area who repurpose and redistribute the food to those in need.

In 2023 alone, customers returned 16,524 kits, redistributing an estimated 479,196lbs of food. 

Participating in Chefs to End Hunger supports community efforts and ensures your donors comply with SB 1383.

Tier 1 Businesses (effective January 1, 2022): Supermarkets, grocery stores over 10,000 square feet, food service providers, food distributors,and wholesale food vendors.

Tier 2 Businesses (effective January 1, 2024): Restaurants, hotels, health facilities, large venues and events, certain state agency cafeterias,local education agencies, and non-local entities.

Chefs to End Hunger will be hosting a fundraising event on September 9 at the legendary Hotel Bel-Air, a Dorchester Collection Hotel.  The celebrity chef event will usher out the summer season in style with the return of the end-of-summer barbecue extravaganza. The event is helmed by the hotel's Culinary Director Joe Garcia. The line-up of lauded culinary professionals and establishments includes Burt Bakman (Slab), Saw Naing (The Dutchess Ojai and Joplin's), Jackson Kalb (Ospi and Jemma), San Laurel by José Andrés, Ray Garcia (Asterid, Qué Bárbaro, ¡VIVA! and The Brown Sheep), Alisa Vannah (Chi Spacca by Nancy Silverton), Jeremy Fox (Rustic Canyon), Ashley James (The Beverly Hills Hotel), The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, and Dialog Cafe.

What to Expect

          •        Date & Time: Tuesday, September 9, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM  .

          •        Location: The Front Lawn by Swan Lake at Hotel Bel-Air 

          •        Atmosphere: A refined, communal outdoor dining experience under the stars, in the hotel’s signature lush and serene surroundings .

          •        Price: $350 per person, plus tax and gratuity—including wine and spirit This event is part of Hotel Bel-Air’s annual visiting chef series.

 

Posted by Rob Longwell, editor.
 

 

 

 

 

Glasses that Give Digital Vision to the Blind

the .lumen is a startup that builds glasses which empower the blind to live a better life. 

The guide dog is a great, but not a scalable solution. There are 40 million blind people worldwide but only 28 thousand guide dogs. 

The .lumen Glasses use self-driving technology scaled down to a headset to help the other 39 million blind individuals who can't have a guide dog. These glasses replicate the main features of a guide dog and more. 

The guide dog pulls your hand, the .lumen Glasses pull your head. The Glasses will understand obstacles above or below the ground and keep you away from them. They will understand where it is safe and not to walk, and keep you on the sidewalk, away from the road, puddles, or mud. They compute 100 times a second where you can walk and will take you there. 

With continous Software Updates, the Glasses learn to help you more. Reading, shopping, hiking, and even empowering new jobs. 

These glasses are powered by haptic interface. Thousands of hours of tests made the .lumen Glasses compatible with 80% of adult heads. . For more information see their website at https://www.dotlumen.com/ 

by: Tara Tabiband Rob Longwell, editors

A Visual Tour of Monterey Car Week and Concours de Elegance

 Many of the sights and Cars of the Pebble Beach Concours de Elegance are beyond description. Here we have captured a Photograhic jouney of the wide variety of cars and venues you might see if you go there. Some are from nooks and crannies that might even go unnoticed.

The week leading up to the Concours showcase on the the golf course in Pebble Beach is referred to as Monterey Car Week. Actually more than a week, perhaps 12 days, car week offers enthusiasts dozens of venues and events to see the latest and greatest in the car world ranging from muscle cars to vintage collector specimens to hi speed race cars.

View this photo collection as if you were walking through the show and hopping from event to event as you might actually see it from the ground. 

Many of these events are as follows:

The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Awards at the Quail

TOUR D'ELEGANCE

WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca

Monterey Pre-Reunion

PORSCHE MONTEREY CLASSIC

Broad Arrow Auctions

Hagerty's Motorlux

PEBBLE BEACH MOTORING CLASSIC

THE LITTLE CAR SHOW

PEBBLE BEACH TOUR D'ELEGANCE PRESENTED BY ROLEX

PRANCING PONIES CAR SHOW Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea

MECUM AUTO AUCTIONS: MUSCLE CARS

BONHAMS QUAIL LODGE AUCTION

RM SOTHEBY’S MONTEREY

Quail  Motorsports Gathering  The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering has provided an unparalleled and exclusive experience for motorsports enthusiasts and collectors from around the world to enjoy rare collections of fine automobiles and motorcycles in a garden-party setting on the rolling greens of Quail Lodge & Golf Club.

 CONCORSO ITALIANO Benvenuto! Concorso Italiano is a key part the traditional Monterey Automobile Week. Concorso Italiano’s unique format features more 800 vehicles of Italian origin, and its atmosphere is on the vehicles on display, conversations between people who love and appreciate them, and elements of Italian style such as fashion, food, music and art – all of this on the beautiful grounds of the Black Horse Golf Club.

 

And finally on Sunday Aug 13, 2023 the Concours de Elegance is not a contest of speed, but of elegance. Automobiles and motorcycles are judged for their historical accuracy, their technical merit and their style—and the best garner reward and recognition.

 

 

by Rob Longo Longwell