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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Black History Month Food Festival Begins Tonight

Posted By on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Gussie's chef Michele Wilson, cooking for you.
  • Gussie's chef Michele Wilson, cooking for you.
This year, SF Noir caps off its annual San Francisco Black History Month activities with a five-day celebration of African American culinary culture. The festival, which lasts from Feb. 24 through Feb. 28, begins with a celebrity-chef shrimp and grits cook-off tonight (sold out, unfortunately) and follows with events on both sides of the bay, including wine

tastings, spoken-word

performances, and two simultaneously occurring jazz brunches.

The week culminates this Saturday with a massive gala in downtown San Francisco. Many of the Bay Area's best-known black chefs ― including

Michele Wilson of Gussie's, the Front Porch's Michael Law, and Dean

Dupuis of Pican ― will be preparing dishes for the gala, and you should

find at least one wine out of the 120 being poured to go with each

dish. (Though SFoodie recommends you avoid conducting a systematic

search.)

Event details:
SF Noir Food & Wine Gala
Time: Sat.,

Feb. 27, 7-11 p.m.
Location: The Atrium, 101 Second St. (at

Mission)
Tickets: $60 from

SF Noir until tomorrow, $75

afterward

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