An Artful Bacon Class

Those of you who have read my blog for a while know that I'm involved with the Artfully Done Cookbook that benefits the Wichita Art Museum. Serving on the Friends Board has been a great joy, meeting very talented, lovely people and giving back to one of my favorite philanthropic causes, the arts.

Over the past year, I've become quite close friends with RoxAnn Dicker, who is the editor of the cookbook, and the daughter of the lovely woman that it was written in memory of. RoxAnn and I have shared many, many bottles of wine in my kitchen brainstorming up crazy ideas of how to market the book, and talking about our love of bacon. RoxAnn is friends with a woman by the name of Bonnie Aeschliman, who has a lovely cooking school here in town (which I never knew!).

Well, my good friend RoxAnn came up with the fabulous idea of asking Bonnie if she was brave enough to let she and I teach a class all about bacon, and promoting the Artfully Done Cookbook. Bonnie "bit" on the idea, and we're scheduled to teach a class on March 17th.

For information on how to sign up, click on Cooking at Bonnie's Place. Bonnie's is located at 9747 East 21st Street North – Suite 139 in Wichita, Kansas 67206. Call 316-425-5224 to make your reservation.

Hope to see you on St. Patty's Day for a delightfully bacon-filled cooking class!

Bacon wrapped dates image courtesy of Sunset magazine.

Artfully Done Cookbook Launch Party

This is part 1 of the party. I'm going to break this post into 2 pieces because there are so many great pictures.

The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum were responsible for gathering recipes and including 100 pieces of art from the Museum's collection. Connie Kendall and Karla Fazio were in charge of putting on the event, and wow did they do an incredible job! The cookbook was complied in memory of Carlene Banks, a longtime Friend. The party was a huge success and fun was had by all!

Tribute to Carlene

Room ready for the party

I love this chandelier!

Our fearless leaders on this adventurous project!

From left to right: Mary Ellen Joyner (Chairperson of the FWAM), Joan Seaton (Cookbook Committee Co-chair), RoxAnn Banks Dicker (Editor and daughter of Carlene Banks), Patty Bennett (Cookbook Committee Co-chair) and Stephen Gleissner (WAM Curator).