It was a lively scene last night at Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle in Aventura. Forty local chefs cooked to raise money for programs to feed children in need.

SAVE THE DATE: Taste of Miami Spice Kickoff Event & Fundraiser
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive
The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Miami Beach Convention Center and Centerplate Catering invite you to enjoy the 2nd Annual Taste of Miami Spice Kickoff Event & Fundraiser, featuring tastings from a selection of participating Miami Spice restaurants and celebrity chefs selling and signing cookbooks. A potion of the proceeds will benefit Share Our Strength. Tickets will go on sale soon. Visit www.ILoveMiamiSpice.com for details.

SUP: By John Tanasychuk, Sun-Sentinel 

This week brings two opportunities to contribute to Share Our Strength, the hunger relief organization.

It culminates with two benefits—June 2 at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale and July 7 at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle resort—when guests get to sample some of the best food and wine from area restaurants.

Taylor Morgan is the founder/owner of www.SouthFloridaDines.com, a company she started in 2001 when the worldwide web was just taking hold.

An array of South Palm Beach and Broward County’s chefs and restaurants will gather for Share Our Strength’s “Taste of the Nation,” a culinary benefit, to offer their specialties and to cook up support for the nationwide fight against childhood hunger in America.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BankAtlantic, Florida’s Most Convenient Bank, announced today that it is pleased to partner with the Children’s Services Council of Broward County (the “CSC”) in support of the upcoming Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation^® Fort Lauderdale on June 2, 2011.

by Bill Citara, Boca Raton Magazine

At last night’s Taste of the Nation culinary competition, Café Boulud’s Zach Bell bested 3030 Ocean’s Dean James Max in Battle Sea Bass, a 15-minute cook-off featuring a wealth of ingredients from a mystery basket unveiled only minutes before the competition started.

By Liz Balmaseda   |  Dining  |  April 06, 2011
Palm Beach Pulse

It’s always a good culinary event when chef Zach Bell (Café Boulud) is involved. It’s even better when the event raises money to fight childhood hunger. Taste of the Nation Palm Beach, which comes to the Kravis Center next Wednesday night is such an occasion.

by Kenny Spahn
Boca Raton Restaurant Examiner

Named “South Florida’s most outstanding Food and Wine Celebration,” Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation is coming back to Palm Beach County! The delicious fundraiser takes place Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion. Considered one of the country’s premier food and wine events, the Taste has made its way to Palm Beach, with four-time James Beard nominee, Chef Zach Bell, of Café Boulud, at the helm.

By John Tanasychuk April 1, 2011
SUP: Eating around South Florida

Share our Strength Taste of the Nation returns to Palm Beach County Wednesday.

Top chefs and restaurants from across the county will offer samples of their fare at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion in West Palm Beach.