Producer Elise Jaffe will host a party Wednesday night with food by top local chefs who will have come up with an adult’s approach to children’s food favorites.
The party is being held for the “mission launch” of her reality-based TV show, “Fooditude,” that teaches eight-to-12-year old “tweens” the basics of cooking and nutrition, in a fun, relevant and age-appropriate way.
In other words, the party will be a way to alert guests to the need for funds to complete the half-hour pilot and get the timely show in front of an audience.
(The party can’t be officially stated as a fund-raiser, since the company, Fooditude Media LLC, is for-profit.)
After being in the works for six years, “Fooditude’s” time may have arrived. The show’s nutrition-awareness theme intersects with the medical profession’s increasing concern about overweight and obese children and the need for changing their dietary and lifestyle habits.
“We don’t have a completed pilot because we exhausted our resources,” explains Jaffe, of Big Teeth Productions. “We realized it would be better to have a trailer, a video, that we could pitch to networks. That’s what we will show Wednesday night.”
For the mission launch party, “chefs were asked to prepare an adult version of what a child might eat, such as a ham and cheese or hot dog maki, from AI & Tsuki Sushi” says Jaffe.
Manning the nine food stations will chefs from AI & Tsuki Sushi, Purple Asparagus, Jewell Events and Catering, Pear Tree Catering, Personal Chef Patricia Zadony, Chef Prep, Rich Chocolates, Sweet Galit and Brown Eyed Suzan’s Cookies.
There’s also a silent auction, live music played by several local bands and drinks provided by Girasole Vineyards, Arcadia Ales and Vitamin Water.
“Fooditude’s” “Kid Chefs” will assist the chefs to prepare and serve the dishes.
