NACE Houston Meeting: October 20, 2010

October Meeting

	Lunch with Chef Monica Pope October Program October 20, 2010 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM T'afia Restaurant 3701 Travis Houston, TX 77007 $30.00 Monthly member meeting fee $45.00 after October 18 $45.00 Guest monthly meeting fee $60.00 after October 18
Monica Pope - October Presenter Named 2009's Best Chef at the Houston Culinary Awards, Monica Pope is a 2007 James Beard Award Nominee for Best Chef: Southwest and the owner of t'afia and Beaver's in Houston. The only Texas woman to ever be named a Top 10 Best New Chef by Food & Wine magazine, Pope first learned to cook from her Czech grandmother and went on to earn her Chef's title from Prue Leith's School of Food and Wine in London. After working in Europe and San Francisco, Pope returned home to Houston to open her first restaurant, the critically acclaimed The Quilted Toque.  Soon after opening her second Houston restaurant, Boulevard Bistrot, she garnered national praise from top critical publications including Travel & Leisure, which hailed her "one of the most ingenious restaurateurs around." Her latest venture, t'afia, has been featured in Gourmet, O: The Oprah Magazine, Bon Appetit, and Fortune. She recently published a digital cookbook, Eat Where Your Food Lives(available at http://www.chefmonicapope.com/ and is currently working on a cooking memoir entitled Eating Hope (and Other Things I've Had to Stomach).

NACE Houston Meeting: October 20, 2010