For Chefs

I'm reaching out for my father turns 80 this year and I feel he deserves a birthday celebration like none other.  My big plan and goal will is to put on a progressive dinner focused on the individual decades and establishments from where he worked at that particular time throughout Atlanta.  
 

If you have been directed to this sight
then this is my personal invitation for you to consider to be a part of this event.
  You were a valuable part of Kurt's past and now we want you to be a part of his celebration.  There will be multiple courses and we would like to invite Chefs to create a course indigenous to the time period or a memory that coincides with the time they spent cooking with Chef Kurt and to even consider a sponsorship of their dish.  This will create a most wonderful meal that will bring together so much talent and certainly create an unforgettable evening.

 

An example would be a starter course featuring an item from The Red Barn Inn's menu.  I want to dig deeper and say for the third course, we would celebrate his time at the Atlanta Athletic Club and for that course, I would invite a chef who worked for him at that time, create a course that is either representative of that time, or something that reminds him of working with my father. With that in mind, each course would be prepared by a former "student", Apprentice, or co-worker of Kurt's and would entail a story of that time and his experience at each of those places.  My idea also includes a documentary-style video interview with Kurt where he would recount his life and specifically the culinary places and progression that follows.  During this event, the part of the interview that corresponds with that particular course can play while that food and corresponding commentary are enjoyed by the guests (guests meaning all his friends and hopefully former employees, and bosses, throughout the years).

 

It's an ambitious project and I am already late to start the planning process but determined to at least try to put it together.  My question to you is if you would at all be interested in being a part of such an event.  

 

Your name attached to this project will garner enough interest to get the rest of this done.  I have no idea if this is of any interest to you, if it's even feasible and what costs you might expect for such an engagement, but I have to start somewhere.  So I am asking what part of this you and I could discuss further.

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If turns into the event I dream it could be, tables could be also sold to those that would have an interest in an Atlanta Culinary history trip through this dinner.  I want it to be the event of the year, but that is just my innermost creativity kicking in.

 

I also know that my Father has never quite achieved the name and notoriety that he deserves in the culinary world.  Last year he was so appreciative when the American Chef's Association gave him a Lifetime Achievement award.  That award means the world to him and my wish is for him to be celebrated while he is still alive and can appreciate it.  So many people are celebrated after their death, and as humbling as that may be for the families, I feel that the actual recipient is cheated of this recognition.

 

I want my father to experience the true recognition and gratitude he rightfully deserves for he has sacrificed his entire adult life to cook, for the people of Atlanta, great food, and has introduced them to his own cooking style influenced by his European heritage and education.

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Please complete the form below to keep in the loop for this event including a request for an invitation but more for your input and capacity to be a part of this unforgettable evening celebrating not only Kurt, the entire progression of the Atlanta dining scene through the years

 

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you

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- a l e x a n d e r

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