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Ladies get cookin’ at Dames in the City Sunday

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With apologies to Oscar Hammerstein, there is nothing like Les Dames.

That’s Les Dames d’Escoffier, the organization of women in the food game. And their big annual event, Dames in the City: Raiser Grazer 2012, comes to Union Station downtown on Sunday.

Two dozen women chefs, winemakers and purveyors from across North Texas, including former Cuidad chef Joanne Bondy (Old Hickory Steakhouse at the Gaylord Texan), Janice Provost (Parigi), Sharon Hage (formerly of York Street), Paula Lambert (The Mozzarella Company), food writer June Naylor for Perini Ranch in Buffalo Gap, and more.

The event runs 5–8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $50 and can be obtained at LDEDDallas.org.

—  Arnold Wayne Jones

Good eatin’: Sunday’s Chefs’ Picnic at the Lake

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Part of me wonders why anyone who lives in Texas ever plans to do anything outdoors between Memorial Day and Labor Day. But then you have a nice event like Sunday’s Chefs’ Picnic at the Lake, and you know.

The food-a-thon started Saturday with a series of events — brunch to late-dinner — and concluded Sunday with a well-attended but still fairly intimate barbecue, all hosted by top local chefs. Sunday’s picnic, commemorating the centennial of White Rock Lake, featured fresh Texas peaches, watermelon salad, orzo, baked beans, grilled chicken, beef brisket and delicious housemade salad from host-chef Brian C. Luscher of The Grape (pictured with Parigi’s Janice Provost). There were also banana puddings, cupcakes and best of all: Iced tea vodka from Deep Eddy. And I managed to stay in the shade most of the time with a breeze off the water.

—  Arnold Wayne Jones