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A true taste of N'Awlins
By JANET K. KEELER
Published September 30, 2005
Hurricane Rita hampered a Safety Harbor restaurant's relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina victims. But, weather permitting, the event will go on this weekend.
Chef-owner Dawn Algieri of Lincoln Heights Bistro planned to bring in a displaced New Orleans chef to cook in her kitchen last weekend. But he was stranded in Baton Rouge, where he sought safe haven from Katrina, when Hurricane Rita hit.
Chef Richard Bond, owner of the Mardi Gras School of Cooking and Catering in New Orleans, is now scheduled to serve up such Louisiana favorites as chicken and andouille gumbo, bread pudding with bourbon sauce and oyster bisque for brunch and dinner Sunday and dinner on Monday.
Algieri is paying for Bond's trip from Baton Rouge. His cooking school was damaged and he is out of work, she says. Besides cooking at Lincoln Heights, Bond will be a guest chef at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at La Maison Gourmet, 471 Main St. in Dunedin. Call (727) 736-3070 for more information.
Bond is the first of several displaced chefs that Algieri hopes to bring to her restaurant for a weekend series of fundraisers called "Cookin' fer N'Awlins." Besides paying the chefs, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross.
Sunday's brunch seatings are 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Price is $24.95. Dinner on Sunday and Monday is at 6 p.m. and costs $49.95. Lincoln Heights, which seats just 45 people, is at 603 Elm St. Call (727) 726-4210 to make reservations.
[Last modified September 30, 2005, 01:36:15]
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