2012 Blue Jeans Ball

Chef Peter Smith. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Chef Peter Smith and his daughter Lucy. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Norah O’Donnell, Capital Area Food Bank CEO Lynn Brantley, Host Committee chair Kristen Olson. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Meatballs from Carmine’s. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Marriott Wardman Park ballroom. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Live auctioneers Paul and David Quinn. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Live auction bidding. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Kwame Brown. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Hannah Hawkins CAFB board member and founder/director of Children of Mine Inc. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Guacamole from Rosa Mexicano. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Dave and Jamie Dorros, Sassy and Chris Jacobs. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Chef Geoff’s Geoff Tracy, Amber Hsu, and Walter Hsu. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Chef Geoff’s DC executive chef Warren Hutchinson, and line cook Barbara Garcia with Mediterranean shrimp chickpea salad. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Tables, stage. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

PAUL bakery: Laetitia Steinier, Anika Brown, and Andrey Walter. Photograph by Neshan Naltchayan.

Lemongrass and lime cocktail from Ping Pong Dim Sum. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Kristin Bodenstedt (Host committee Bicardi USA) and Artem Gassan. Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.

Host Committee chair Kristen Olson, CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, and Claudia Callaway (Host Committee partner Katten, Muchin, Rosenman, LLP). Photograph by Kevin Allen for the Capital Area Food Bank.