Dinner w/ Food Network Star Ted Allen at Del Posto NYC All proceeds benefit Feeding America Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 770.00 Time Left - Bid Count 23 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, November 14, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location New York, NY See more about 'Dinner w/ Food Network Star Ted Allen at Del Posto NYC' Description Auction     Volunteer and Dine with Food Network star Ted Allen at Iron Chef Mario Batali’s Del Posto in New York The highest bidder and a guest will participate in the ultimate foodie experience, courtesy of Food Detectives star Ted Allen! Join food authority Ted Allen to help give back to the community for an afternoon at The Food Bank for New York City. Afterwards, indulge in an evening of food and wine with Ted at Iron Chef Mario Batali’s restaurant, Del Posto. Mario Batali is one of the most celebrated and recognizable chefs worldwide and the winner of this package will be guided through the menu by esteemed colleague Ted Allen, with perfectly paired wine accompaniments. The highest bidder will provide much needed hunger-relief, get the inside scoop on Ted’s new Food Network show, Food Detectives, and take in an evening every foodie wishes for in New York! Ted Allen is the host for a new Food Network series, Food Detectives, which takes popular food myths and misconceptions and puts them to the test. Most famously, Ted was the food and wine specialist on the Emmy Award-winning NBC/Bravo hit “Queer Eye” and is the author of The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes (Clarkson-Potter), a cookbook for beginners that features easy, all-natural recipes for everything from steak to cocktails. Ted will guide the highest bidder and a guest through an evening of fine dining as per his role as Food and Wine Ambassador for Robert Mondavi Private Selection wines, offering his expertise on pairing wine with food. Additionally, Ted has been a contributing editor at Esquire magazine since 1997, writing about food, wine, style and everything else the American male needs to know. As if spending an evening with Ted Allen wasn’t enough, the winner of this package will be in store for an out-of-this-world culinary experience at Iron Chef Mario Batali’s Del Posto restaurant in New York. The menu at the critically acclaimed restaurant is a perfect credit to Batali’s strength of blending traditional Italian principles with intelligent culinary innovation. Aside from Food Network fame, Batali makes sure consumers eagerly clean their plates each night at his twelve successful restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Among his many accolades, he has received the coveted James Beard Foundation’s “Best Chef: New York City” award in 2002, and “Outstanding Chef of the Year,” in 2005. Mario is also one of the recipients of the 2001 D’Artagnan Cervena Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America, which is a prestigious lifetime achievement award. What is included? The winner and a guest will spend an afternoon volunteering with Ted Allen at The Food Bank for New York City Dinner for two with Ted Allen at Mario Batali’s Del Posto restaurant in New York Food and wine pairings presented by Ted Allen Dates valid: December 1, 2009- January 1, 2010 Does this package include travel? No Special Details/Rules: Experience to take place on a mutually agreed upon date based upon Ted Allen’s availability and advanced reservations at Del Posto. Package Donated By: Ted Allen 100% of all proceeds from the auction will benefit Feeding America. Feeding America is the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through its network of more than 200 member food banks, Feeding America annually provides assistance to more than 25 million people in need in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each year, Feeding America secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of food and grocery products to support feeding programs at approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters. To learn more, visit www.feedingamerica.org. Official Auction Terms: A bid is a legally binding contract. This is for a charitable purpose—do not bid if you are not 100% certain you can follow through with payment. All bids and sales are final, so please verify your bid amount before placing it. 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