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Eat, talk to chefs at Beard dinners on tour

By Mary MacVean
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For years, chefs both famous and up-and-coming have cooked dinners in the Greenwich Village house where James Beard lived. But it’s a small place, and we can’t all go to New York for dinner. A shame, of course.

But Jeff Black’s Celebrity Chef Tour tries to re-create the experience around the country, including a dinner set for Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Penthouse at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica.

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For $130 to $150, diners will have six courses, with wine, cooked by five chefs: Stefan Richter of L.A. Farm, C.J. Jacobson from The Yard, Shannon Swindle of Craft, Jeffrey Nimer of Haute Chefs and Seth Greenburg of the Penthouse.

After dinner, the chefs are to join the guests and talk about -– what else? -– food and being a chef.

“Even though $150 is a lot of money for people, for this dinner, it’s still an amazing value,” said Black, president of the Celebrity Chef Tour.

A portion of the proceeds benefit the James Beard Foundation, and Black said the tours have raised $850,000 for the foundation since 2004.

The Santa Monica dinner is one of 20 being held around the country this year.

-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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