Giving Kitchen Celebration at Ovation

Please join James Beard Award winners Giving Kitchen and The Bitter Southerner as we celebrate the 2024 James Beard Award nominees and Giving Kitchen's milestone of serving 19,000 food service workers in crisis.

On June 9th, from 2:30PM – 4:30PM, raise a glass with Giving Kitchen as we celebrate the 2024 James Beard nominees and share news of what Giving Kitchen is doing to assist food service workers in crisis across the nation. Guests will enjoy libations and tasty bites as Giving Kitchen’s Founder, Jen Hidinger-Kendrick, provides insight into our work, an update on our national expansion and share GK’s vision to serve 100,000 food service workers annually by 2030 though a community where crisis is met with compassion and care. The Bitter Southerner co-founders, Kyle Tibbs Jones and Dave Whitling, will be on hand to do what they do best: bring folks together who work to build a Better South. 

Giving Kitchen received a James Beard Foundation Humanitarian Award in 2019. The Bitter Southerner has received four James Beard Foundation awards for Food Coverage in a General Interest Publication, since 2020.

Celebration at Ovation

Hosted by Giving Kitchen & The Bitter Southerner

June 9, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Ovation
2324 W. Fulton Street, Chicago, IL 60612
(Less than 4 miles from the Hilton Chicago)

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GK founder Jen Hidinger-Kendrick at our 2023 celebration

Guests eating at last year's celebration

The Bitter Southerner staff at last year's celebration

About Giving Kitchen

Giving Kitchen is a James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of The Year Award-winning nonprofit that helps food service workers in crisis. Giving Kitchen has served more than 19,000 food service workers and provided more than $12 million dollars in financial aid (rent, mortgage and utility support) to food service workers facing illness, injury, death or a housing disaster as well as providing stability through a network of community resources. If you know of a food service worker in crisis, please visit https://thegivingkitchen.org/help or en español https://thegivingkitchen.org/ayuda.

About The Bitter Southerner

Bitter Southerner has a single aim - to uncover the American South in all its truth and complexity — and in the process to break stereotypes about the region and its people by pushing out important, difficult, uncomfortable, irreverent, witty, and addictive stories in their print magazine, The Bitter Southerner and online. We believe in a better south.

About The James Beard Foundation

The James Beard Foundation (JBF) is a 501(c)3 organization that celebrates and supports the people behind America’s food culture, while pushing for new standards in the restaurant industry to create a future where all have the opportunity to thrive. Established over 30 years ago, the Foundation has highlighted the centrality of food culture in our daily lives and is committed to supporting a resilient and flourishing industry that honors its diverse communities.