NEW YORK CITY: DAVID ARQUETTE
HOSTED CITY HARVEST’S "AN EVENING OF
PRACTICAL MAGIC" ON
APRIL 22ND AT CIPRIANI 42ND STREET .
MATCH BOX 20’S
ROB THOMAS AND COMPOSER MARC SHAIMAN
PERFORMED, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
ADAM SHANKMAN. THE EVENT HONORED
RACHAEL RAY AND ERIC RIPERT, AMONG
OTHERS.
LAST YEAR’S EVENT ATTRACTED OVER 600
PEOPLE AND RAISED ALMOST $1.3
MILLION. AN EVENING OF PRACTICAL
MAGIC PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE EFFORTS OF
INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO
HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND IN THEIR
COMMITMENT TO HELP CITY HARVEST FEED
NEW YORK’S HUNGRY. CITY HARVEST’S
EFFORTS TO FEED HUNGRY INDIVIDUALS
AND FAMILIES BY RESCUING FOOD THAT
WOULD OTHERWISE GO TO WASTE HAS BEEN
REFERRED TO AS PRACTICAL MAGIC. IN
THE CURRENT ECONOMY, INCREASING
NUMBERS OF THE CITY’S MOST
VULNERABLE CITIZENS ARE NOW IN NEED
OF EMERGENCY FOOD, MANY FOR THE VERY
FIRST TIME.
ATTENDEE’S INCLUDED DAVID ARQUETTE,
RACHEL RAY, ROB THOMAS, ERIC RIPERT,
CHEF DAVID CHANG OF MOMOFUKU,
COMPOSER MARC SHAIMAN, ADAM SHANKMAN,
, ALL MY CHILDREN’S CHRISHELL STAUSE,
REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK CITY’S
KELLY KILLOREN BENSIMON, NEWLY
CROWNED MISS USA 2009 KRISTEN
DALTON, PROMINENT MEMBERS OF NEW
YORK SOCIETY INCLUDING: MITCHELL
DAVIDSON AND NINA RENNERT DAVIDSON,
SIMONE AND DAVID LEVINSON, DIANA AND
JOE DIMENNA, FIONA AND ERIC RUDIN,
JACQUELINE AND MORTIMER SACKLER,
CARYN ZUCKER, STEPHANIE WINSTON
WOLKOFF AND DAVID WOLKOFF, TRACY AND
ERIC SEMLER, JENNY AND JOHN PAULSON,
HEATHER AND STEVEN MNUCHIN, MICHELLE
AND TIMOTHY BARAKETT AND TRACY
NIEPORENT, ALONG WITH FOOD INDUSTRY
NOTABLES INCLUDING CHEF AND CO-OWNER
OF AQUAVIT RESTAURANT MARCUS
SAMUELSSON, RESTAURATEUR VITTORIO
ASSAF, CHEF ALEX GUARNASCHELLI,
ARIANE DAGUIN OWNER OF D'ARTAGNAN
RESTAURANT, CHEF FRANCOIS PAYARD OF
PAYARD PATISSERIE & BISTRO, ALDO
SOHM, WINE DIRECTOR AT LE BERNARDIN,
AND ADAM PERRY LANE, AMONG OTHERS.