Nepal fundraisers schedule; More Mother’s Day opportunities; Grandma Linda’s Ice Cream closes
We in Sonoma care about our people. Our people include the immigrants from Nepal, most of whom use the last name of Sherpa. They work in lots of our restaurants, run a taxi company, and take care of people. All of them have family in earthquake-ravaged Nepal. And they need help.
Here are some ways you can help, if you choose, by attending events and sampling good food. They are listed chronologically.
Tuesday, May 12: Murphy’s Irish Pub and Taste of Himalayas host their Tuesday Night Farmers Market After Party with Sean Carscadden playing. Murphy’s will give 25 percent of what you spend to relief. Taste of Himalayas will serve a buffet with all funds going for relief.
Thursday, May 14: Ramekins Culinary School & Event Center will host a community-?wide fundraiser with 100 percent of funds raised going to relief in small villages that suffered greatly and are not receiving the same level of relief that Katmandu residents are getting.
Local chefs donating, participating and sponsoring include those of Ramekins, Burgers & Vine Whiskey Bar, Maya Restaurant, Shiso Modern Asian Kitchen, Depot Hotel, Aventine Glen Ellen, Saddles Steakhouse, Yeti Restaurant, Glen Ellen Star, Crisp Bake Shop, Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn, The Swiss Hotel, The Red Grape, The Epicurean Connection, Cafe LaHaye, La Salette, El Dorado Kitchen, Cornerstone Sonoma and Chateau Sonoma. La Tavola Linens is donating linens for the fundraising dinner.
Sonoma Valley chefs will serve dinner at 6 p.m. with Jon Reiter, just back from Nepal, and local Sherpa leader Nima Sherpa will speak with a short slide show from the field.
Let’s not miss this opportunity to help in a big way. This event has no administrative expenses.
Bring your checkbooks for an impassioned Fund-In-Need. No auction. All funds go to the Himalayan Sherpa Club Sonoma (501 c3). $200. 5 to 8 p.m. 450 W. Spain St., Sonoma. Reservations at Ramekins.com or 933-0450.
Thursday, May 21: Saddles Steakhouse at MacArthur Place will join with the Himalaya Sherpa Club of Sonoma (501 c3), also to help raise funds for smaller villages in outlying areas of Nepal. Executive chef Dana Jaffe, chef Sanjeev K. Singh, and several Sherpas will prepare “traditional” food. Contact Dana Jaffe at dana@macarthurplace.com if you would like to donate auction items. $50. More details to come.
Sondra Bernstein and her staff at the girl & the fig and fig cafe are encouraging donations directly to charitywater.org or donatecharitywater.org/donate/nepal, said to be a great organization working to deliver clean water throughout Nepal.
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Mother’s Day alert:
A couple more Mother’s Day brunch outings have cropped up, and they present wildly different styles and pricing.
For a Mother’s Day celebration for the whole fam damily, you might try the annual Glen Ellen Firefighters’ Association Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast right in the Glen Ellen firehouse and its parking area on Sunday, May 10. Always a great feast, this might be the best pancake breakfast in Sonoma Valley. Sometimes there are even takeaway plants for moms.
You will enjoy an endless plethora of pancakes, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, fresh fruit, orange juice and coffee. And such a deal to benefit the Glen Ellen Firegighters’ Association and Glen Ellen Fire Association Auxiliary. We all need to support our fire departments. We need these public servants. $8 adults, $4 ages 4 to 17, free for ages 3 and under. 8 a.m. to noon. 13445 Arnold Drive, Glen Ellen.
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At the other end of the spectrum, you might sample Steve Ledson’s new Zina Lounge at his Ledson Hotel introducing chef Yoshiharu Sogi and wines from Ledson and his Zina Hyde Cunningham labels. The menu of small plates might include excellent raw oysters two ways; clam chowder with edamame and a crispy wonton strip; tastes of seared ahi and salmon; marinated pork loin with raisin chutney; strip beef loin with small Brussels sprouts and fingerling potatoes; and a taste of chocolate mousse with banana flambe. $150. Seatings at 1, 5:30 and 8 p.m. 480 First St. E., Sonoma. Reservations at 538-3823 or ledson.com.
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P.S. DO NOT text or email your mother to tell her how much you appreciate and love her. CALL HER or see her in person. Thank you.
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Grandma Linda’s Ice Cream shop has closed. The Troy Marmaduke family opened a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop on the Plaza, a few years later disassociated with Ben & Jerry’s, and reopened as an independent ice cream shop named for Grandma Linda Marmaduke who had passed away fairly recently. So sorry to see a family that gives much to our community leave Sonoma Plaza. They did not respond to my email inquiry.
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