Alice Waters and Joan Nathan. They created Sips & Suppers six years ago with chef José Andrés to raise money to help feed Washington’s homeless and hungry. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Luigi Diotaiute of Al Tiramisu. You’d be in a gleeful mood, too, if George Clooney named your restaurant his favorite in Washington. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
DC Central Kitchen “students” Antoin Washington, Franklin Garner, and Gregory Jackson at the Sips half of Sips & Suppers at the Newseum. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Pete Conner and George Manolatos of Cashion’s Eat Place serve up a wicked good Manhattan. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Distillers Allison Mandarino and Tallulah Pollard of Bloomery Plantation Distillery in Charles Town, West Virginia. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
An aerial view of Sips & Suppers at the Newseum. The food feast occupied three floors of the building. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
The crew behind the dinner for 27 at the home of Sarah and Bob Nixon. The photo includes the Nixons and chefs Spike Gjerde, Chris Fischer, Chris Swensen, Lee Derosiers, and Olivia Pattison; and their support staff, Hannah Ragan, Kayla Foster, Danielle Pattavina, Elizabeth Davies, and Alison Kirby. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
The first of seven courses at the Nixon dinner: freshly shucked oysters. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Prosciutto and cheese canapés. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Spike Gjerde preps a canapé as Hannah Ragan looks on. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Beach Plum chef Chris Fischer brings out the platter of roast suckling pig. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
The dinner table at the home of Bob and Sarah Nixon. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Sarah Nixon and Andrew Cockburn. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Kirsten Gercke of George Washington University and Abby Eisener of DC Central Kitchen. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
Labor lawyer Jules Bernstein at the dinner table with “knife man” Jeffrey Elliot, who is a representative for Henckels knives and has written a book on kitchen knives. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
The first of three stages of dessert included a fruit pâté, chocolate fudge, and a benne-seed treat. Photograph by Carol Ross Joynt.
