10th Annual Chefs’ Dinner for PAWS

Dana Spain, founder of PAWS, and Walt Moura.

Ed and Lin Snider. Earlier this week, Ed announced he was cancer-free after finishing treatment.

From left: Neil and Barbara Smit with Craig and Erin Elmore Spitzer.

From left: Richard Lebert, Dennis Milstein, Ron Hankin and Lisa Silveri enjoyed a meal from Fond.

Tammy Veneza and Kenneth Paul.

Vicky and Steve Levy.

From left: Dice Raw, Kristen Cook, Adam Spivak and Karen Sajda.

From left: Chef Jeremy Nolen, Christina Marchesani, Sarah DePre and Henrik “The Hammer” Ringbom of Brauhaus Schmitz. Nolen’s new book, New German Cooking: Recipes for Classics Revisited will be published on December 9th. This weekend Brauhaus Schmitz expects 5,000 people to come out to their Oktoberfest block party.

From left: Michael Rand, Lou Ann Dorney, Dr. Alizia Daniels, Carol Serena, and Ramy Shraim.

From left: Pennsylvania 6 chef Marc Plessis, Samantha Mooper, Ian Branning, Tara Vlissi, and Chad Gant all had a great time on their first outing at the annual PAWS dinner.

From left: Chip Roman of Treemont served Cured Cobia, Corn Soup and Lamb Loin for dinner, with Tony Clark, who is currently running the kitchen at Valley Forge Casino and has been tapped to helm the kitchen at the new restaurant in Cooper River Park tentatively called River Bistro>.

Michael Howard and Barbara Spiro. Barbara won the live auction for the trip to France in a hotly contested bidding war with her bid of $12,500. She told me she’d go on the trip with friends and family next fall.

John Kelly and Jill Brasington of Capital Grille.

Drew Coblitz and Kristy Sevag.

Brittany, Shray, Tricia and Angela from Delilah’s Steakhouse volunteered for the evening and sold raffle tickets for the 50/50.

Nicole Potito and Matthew Benigno of Potito’s Bakery provided tasty treats for the dessert portion of the evening, along with Classic Cakes, Fruit Flowers and Dol Cice Gelato Company.