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Texas Taste Teaser

Amateur chefs such as the dean of the School of Dentistry at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), John Valenza, D.D.S., will find out if those family recipes are as good as they think at a Tuesday, April 17, Texas-style culinary competition benefiting the school’s community outreach program. The program provides care to more than 10,000 underserved adults and children a year.

Valenza is one of more than a dozen professional and amateur chefs entering dishes in the school’s second “Texas Taste Teaser” fundraiser at The Denton A. Cooley, MD and Ralph C. Cooley University Life Center.

Attire: Texas chic

Celebrity judges include: Chef Michael Cordúa of Cordúa Restaurants; Houston Fire Department Chief Samuel Pena; NFL referee and school alum Walt Anderson, D.D.S.; and Bravo’s “Married to Medicine Houston” star Ashandra Batiste-Cumby, D.D.S.

Emcees include: “Texas Tooth Lady” and alum Terri Alani, D.D.S.; Chef David Cordúa; alum and Community Outreach Director Margo Melchor, R.D.H.; Ed.D.; and alum Afshan Kaviani-Anderson, D.D.S., wife of Walt Anderson.

Proceeds help support the school’s annual Give Kids A Smile® program, oral health care for homeless veterans and the elderly, and the school’s two mobile dental vans, which travel throughout the Houston area.

Participating chefs will prepare and present appetizer-sized samples of their favorite creations. Ticket holders and the celebrity judges then go from table to table tasting the samples, with the judges choosing winners in a variety of categories, and ticket holders voting for the People’s Choice Award. The event also includes a Silent Auction featuring items donated by the chefs. 

This year, the event will honor the UTHealth students, residents, faculty and staff who rushed to provide emergency oral health care for evacuees in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

Reservations are $60 per person and may be made here, which is also the site to sign up as a volunteer or get more information. 

Event type: 
Dates: 
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Price: 
$60 per person
Phone number: 
713-486-4028
Venue: 
The Denton A. Cooley, MD and Ralph C. Cooley University Life Center
Address: 
7440 Cambridge St.
Houston, TX 77054

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