The applications are in, the mailbox is closed and now its time to make way for the Makes-Me-Wanna Shout Semifinals where the public joins the official judges to advance five coconut cakes to the final round at Eatonville Restaurant (April 27). The Semifinals will feature a variety of coconut cakes beyond the expectations of this contest.
Tickets are now on sale for the Semifinals, Saturday, March 19 from 2 – 4 PM at Miriam’s Kitchen (2401 Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037). The price is $15/person. Sales benefit Miriam’s Kitchen. Click on this link to buy your tickets today!
Meet Our Semifinals Judges
Joan Nathan, a James Beard Award winner, author of 10 cookbooks including her most recent Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France as well as host of the PBS television series “Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan.”
Brenda Rhodes Miller, author of The Church Ladies’ Divine Desserts and Sweet Recollections, The Laying on of Hands, and The Church Ladies’ Celestial Suppers and Sensible Advice.
Scott Schenkelberg, Executive Director of Miriam’s Kitchen. Miriam’s Kitchen serves an average of 300 guests meals each day and provides services to over 3,000 men and women a year.
Anas “Andy” Shallal, owner Eatonville Restaurant and Busboys and Poets. Eatonville Restaurant, “ The Soul of Southern Food,” was opened in 2009 and is inspired by the life and writings of Zora Neale Hurston, a prominent writer, folklorist and anthropologist of the Harlem Renaissance. Eatonville is named for Hurston’s Florida hometown and the country’s first, post-Civil War, African American incorporated town and the focal point in her most famous work, Their Eye Were Watching God.
