Second Annual A Spoonful of Ginger

This past Wednesday, I volunteered at a great event. It was the second annual "A Spoonful of Ginger" at the State Room in downtown Boston on the 33rd floor. There were gorgeous views of downtown and the big dig but also wonderful people and chefs gathered to promote a wonderful cause for the renowned Joslin Diabetes Center AADI (Asian American Diabetes Initiative) lead by Dr. George King and Dr. William Hsu. Event chair Leverett Wing once again organized a wonderful event with lots of help from a great team of volunteers to make it a resounding success. Wonderful food was to be sampled for attendees from offerings ranging from nigiri, chapchae, peking duck, wheat dumplings, ginger cream puffs dipped in chocolate to name a few. There were a number of wonderful items up for bid at the silent auction ranging from a photo from the original negative of JFK and Jackie Kennedy in Hyannisport, Sox tickets, Pats tickets in CLUB 2, Spa night and much more. Local celebrity chefs and restaurants lent their time and names to this wonderful even from Jasper White (looking great of Summer Shack), Ming Tsai (Blue Ginger) and Joanne Chang (Flour Bakery) along with other restaurants from Fugakyu, Oga, Clio, Radius, Changso to name a few. Janet Wu of channel 7 news was on hand to lend her support as emcee for this wonderful event.

I am glad I was able to be on hand to support this cause and thanks to my friends and their friends for coming out to assist as well. The energy was great and there were many people on hand from the community and spotted in attendance were Veronica Chao (editor of the Improper Bostonian) and Shirley Chan ( the Asian Task force Against Domestic Violence).

One of the big sponsors was Sunstar Products and in addition a special guest chef flew in from Osaka, Japan to prepare some two special low calorie dishes that were wonderful. There was some lovely wine tastings supplied by Wine Botega (North End) chosen for their delightful compatibility to Asian cuisine flavors.