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Dinner with Art Smith


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Harold Davis, left of Live Oak is congratulated by Eddie Accardi Chevrolet-Mazda general manager Al Alvaiado last week af-
ter he won a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado pickup. Davis, who is employed by Gold Kist Inc drew the winning key tral opened
the door to the Chevrolet pickup. The promotion was a'summer-long contest sponsored by Eddie Accardi Cheviolet Power
Country 102 radio station.and B&B Food Stores. "I am looking forward to driving my new truck," said Davis, "and, it's a
great value to win a pickup." Photo:Submitted


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 Celebrity chef Art
 Smith, whose association
 with talk-show host Oprah
 Winfrey has brought him
 fame and fortune as an au-
 thor and television person-
 ality, will be the featured
 guest at a fund-raising din-
 ner and reception, spon-
 sored,by the FSU College
 of Business. The event will
 be:
 Friday, Sept. 15, 6-9
 p.m., FSU Alumni Center,
 1030 W..Tennessee St.,
 Tallahassee '
 Tickets are $100 per per-
 son, with all proceeds go-
ing to the Ashby Stiff
Scholarship Fund. Stiff, a
longtime member of the
faculty in FSU's Dedman
School of'Hospitalitr,,
,taught several generations
of students at FSU from
l '35" until his retireirenli


/" Back To The Table by Art Sminth won the 2002 James Beard Award a
 Received a 2001 Gournand World Cookbook Award. Ph-oin Sunmin~d


in 2001. Smith credits the
beginning of his culinary
career to the three years he
spent as a student at FSU
and to the instruction he
received from Stiff.
 A native of Jasper, Smith
has run his own restaurant
in Chicago and has cooked
for families, including
those of politicians and
celebrities, all over the
world. In fact, one of his
first jobs after college was
as chef to then-Florida
Gov. Bob Graham at the
Governor's Mansion in
Tallahassee. Smith has
been Winfrey and her com-
panion Stedman Graham's
chef for eight years.
 Bringing back meaning
and .symbolism to the word.
"table," Smith has united
families and friends
through the sharing of a
 meal. He is a 2002
 James Beard Award
 %% inner for his first
 bestseling cook-
 book. "Back to the
 Table: The Reunion
 of Food and Family"
 (Hyperion, 20- 01).
 Smith also received
 the prestigious 2001
 Gourmand \ world
 Cookbook Award.
 He also runs a
 nonprofit organiza-
 tion, Our Common
 'Threads, which is
 based on his pas-
 sionate belief that
 families i \ whether a
 family b3 blood or a'
 family\ of friends) all
 share an innate de-
 sire to care for each
 other, regardless of
 culture, race or geo-
 graphic location.
 The organization's
 mission is to foster a
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