La. Eats! Poppy Tooker & "Splendid Table" host Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Thanks to everybody for coming out and making this event a success!

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Make your pledge of $365 to WWNO before March 23rd and get tickets to see Lynne Rossetto Kasper (host of The Splendid Table) and Poppy Tooker (host of Louisiana Eats!) at a special event March 23, 2012.  Pledge now and choose the show tickets as your thank you gift.

 As our thanks you will receive a pair of tickets to "Louisiana Eats! behind the scenes with Splendid Table." It's an evening with Poppy Tooker, Lynn Rossetto Kasper, and Jane and Michael Stern -- with food, drinks and a live recording of Louisiana Eats! at the Royal Sonesta Hotel's Grand Ballroom. Friday evening, March 23, beginning at 6:00 p.m. with a special reception for WWNO Dollar-a-Day members, and continuing with a live recording of Louisiana Eats! from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. A limited number of tickets are available!

Evening program will showcase Poppy Tooker of Louisiana Eats!, The Splendid Table’s Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift, and Roadfood.com’s Jane and Michael Stern

WWNO, Roadfood.com and the New Orleans Convention Company, Inc., will kickoff the 4th Annual New Orleans Roadfood Festival with an evening event that includes live music, a taping of WWNO’s Louisiana Eats! and the presentation of Roadfood’s annual Blue Plate Award. 

This special evening will begin with hors d’oeuvres and live music from Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, which will include a performance of their original "Louisiana Eats!” theme song, in addition to their full repertoire of rock, funk, and New Orleans’ favorites.  A cash bar will be available, and guests will enjoy a live taping of WWNO’s Louisiana Eats! program hosted by Poppy Tooker, which will feature The Splendid Table star Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Roadfood.com creators Jane and Michael Stern, and a number of notable chefs including New Orleans’ own Frank Brigtsen.

The evening will also include book signings of How to Eat Weekends by Kasper and producer Sally Swift, as well as the newest edition of Roadfood by Roadfood.com founders Jane and Michael Stern. Louisiana Eats! host Poppy Tooker will sign her book, Crescent City Farmers Market Cookbook. The New Orleans Roadfood Festival’s non-profit beneficiary, Café Reconcile, will also have representatives on hand to promote their cookbook, Café Reconcile: Feed Your Soul.