Weekend with Chef Edward Lee
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Join us for a weekend with James Beard Award Winner Chef Edward Lee!
Saturday, August 23: Four-course Dinner with Wine Paring
Mareé Lounge
7:00pm
$255 per person
Sunday, August 24: Industry Night - The Journey to a Plastic Free Kitchen
Location TBD
4pm
Private Event
Edward Lee is the Chef and Owner of 610 Magnolia and Nami in Louisville, KY and the Chef of SHIA in Washington D.C. He is the Culinary Director for both Succotash restaurants in the Washington DC area. He is also the Co-Founder of The LEE Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to diversity and equality in the restaurant industry for which he won the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award in 2021.
Chef Lee is also the recipient of the 2024 James Beard Humanitarian Award. He has a 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for his book, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot Cuisine. His first book, Smoke & Pickles (Artisan Books, May 2013) was a national bestseller. His new book, Bourbon Land, explores the culinary diversity of KY Bourbon. Lee has been a six-time finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Southeast. In 2018, Food & Wine Magazine named 610 Magnolia one of the country’s most important restaurants of the past 40 years. The Michelin Guide DC awarded Succotash a Bib Gourmand in 2019.
Nami was recently named one of the country’s Top Restaurants in 2023 by USA Today. He was nominated for a daytime Emmy for his role as host of the Emmy-winning series, Mind of Chef on PBS. He has hosted and written a feature documentary called Fermented. Most recently, he was a finalist for the global Netflix hit cooking show, Culinary Class War.