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Children’s Home Society
prepares for
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ABOVE: Chefs prepared bite-sized
portions of their restaurants’ most
popular dishes last year at Caring
Chefs 2011.
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ortheast Florida’s first,
biggest and arguably
best food and winetasting event will return
to The Avenues Mall
Sunday, Oct. 14, for its 29th edition.
Caring Chefs, slated to run from
7–9:30 p.m., features more than 50
of the best First Coast restaurants,
caterers and wine vendors offering
their most well-known dishes and
libations.
Tickets are $60, with proceeds
benefitting Children’s Home Society of Florida’s efforts to break the
cycle of child abuse and neglect.
Each year, sell-out crowds of
more than 2,000 fill the mall sampling the best cuisine in Northeast
Florida.
Now in its 29th year, Caring Chefs
helps Children’s Home Society
of Florida embrace children and
inspire lives. Since 1902, CHS has
helped build, strengthen and heal
families and now serves more
than 2,500 children and families in
Northeast Florida every day.
CHS believes every child
deserves to be safe, happy and
loved. To that end, CHS offered
family-centered and child-focused
programs designed to nurture children and bring families together.
Through adoption, foster care,
counseling, residential care and
parent education programs, CHS
is passionate about stopping the
generational cycle of abuse and
neglect for children.
Caring Chefs sponsors have
helped thousands of children
heal from abusive backgrounds
and find loving, forever families.
They’ve provided a safe harbor for
abused toddlers, found parents for
abandoned children, redirected
troubled teens and transformed
addicted mothers into productive
parents.
Since the venue, food, beverages
and advertising are donated, 90
percent of the revenue from sponsorships goes directly to help the
children