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foot models which graced the entrance to Beard’s home, surrounded by cherry blossoms.
Huge colors photos processed by David Moore of The Inn’s suppliers and local celebrities, including Mrs. Mattie Ball Fletcher, were displayed on easels loaned by artists Tonya Richey and Dan Lewis.
Bruce Wetteroth of The Earth Gallery provided sounds of crickets chirping.
Elizabeth Pierson raised a bumper herd of rabbits which became the main course braised in fresh pressed cider (the Emporium’s last gallon ’til next year) and the season’s first wild merkles (known in New York as morels) supplied by John Jenkins.
Naturally, only Virginia wines were poured, generously donated by three outstanding nearby wineries. Misty Mountain of Madison offered their 1989 Vinter’s Reserve Chardonnay. Prince Michel’s 1991 Cabernet Sauvignon, Cask 91, accompanied the rabbit and a Linden Late Harvest Vidal was showcased as a dessert wine.
The dinner proved to be one of the most successful fundraisers ever held at The Beard House, according to O’Connell and Lynch. The money raised will support the ongoing efforts of the James Beard Foundation to further the culinary vision of the man known as the Dean of American Cuisine.
As for the dinner, O’Connell said, “Those blase New Yorkers were certainly surprised with the bountiful harvest produced from our area.”
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