Join Jacques Pepin & many fine CT chefs, mixologists & restaurateurs on Wednesday June 8, 2011 at Yale Commons for Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation New Haven

Event Details:

June 8, 2011
5pm VIP / 6pm General Admission until 9pm
Yale Commons located in Woolsey Hall
500 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511 (Google Map & Directions)

Please note: Please note: No one under the age of 21, including children in strollers accompanied by their parents, will be admitted to Taste of the Nation. Please bring valid government-issued photo identification such as a driver’s license or passport for proof of age.

Ticket information

VIP Admission, 5-9pm, $150
VIP guest will enjoy entrance an hour early, exclusive access to an elite lounge featuring seating, special VIP-room only wines, champagnes, top-shelf beverages and fabulous tastings from celebrated chefs. Plus admission to “Confections Row”. VIP Admission price is $175 at the door.

General Admission PLUS, 6-9pm, $125
“Confections Row.” A roped-off area within the Taste of the Nation serving fine pastries & desserts from some of New Haven’s Finest Confectioners. This area is available only to VIP & GA-PLUS Guests. Tickets for this area WILL NOT be sold at the door nor will an upgrade be available at the door.

General Admission, 6-9pm, $85.00
Sample the best food and beverage New Haven has to offer as you help to end childhood hunger! General Admission price is $100 at the door.

About Taste of the Nation

The Nation’s Premier Culinary Benefit

Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation is the nation’s premier culinary benefit dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America.

Since 1988, Taste of the Nation has brought together the most creative culinary minds across the nation. Each spring and summer, pioneers of modern American cuisine, national celebrity chefs and mixologists including David Burke, Stephan Pyles, mixologist Tony Abou-Ganim, Bravo’s Top Chef Tom Collichio, Food Network stars Tyler Florence and Emeril Lagasse and thousands more like them donate their time, talent and passion at nearly 40 events across the United States and Canada with one goal in mind: to raise critical funds needed to help end childhood hunger. 100% of supports Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger.

Taste of the Nation’s success is due to the thousands of dedicated volunteers in cities across the United States. These volunteers—chefs, corporate sponsors, marketing and public relations professionals, event planners, financiers and individuals who believe that no child should know hunger-- have helped raised more than $75 million for anti-hunger organizations that run or advocate for programs that connect at-risk families with the food they need to thrive. This year, funds raised through Taste of the Nation will support No Kid Hungry™, Share Our Strength’s campaign to end childhood hunger in America by 2015, as well as selected international efforts.

Share Our Strength^® and End Hunger Connecticut!, a statewide anti-hunger and food security organization, are launching the Connecticut No Kid Hungry^® Campaign to help end childhood hunger in Connecticut by 2015. Join them and take your own pledge to make sure no child in Connecticut grows up hungry. www.nokidhungry.org/connecticut