Wine Dinner at Bistro By The Tracks featuring Banfi Wines: Chef Luciano Parolari and his wife will be the honorary guests for the evening. Chef Parolari will prepare one risotto dish. The wine dinner is set for Tuesday, July 19. Tickets are $95 per person.

Cooking Class with Chef Parolari featuring Banfi and Antinori Wines: The chef will lead an exclusive cooking class at Bridgewater Place, 205 Bridgewater Road in Knoxville. Class begins at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, July 20, and cost is $300 per person.

Chef’s Dinner 2016 featuring Antinori Wines: Chef Parolari will prepare a complete dinner with the help of five well-known chefs from the region who will serve as his sous chefs. The dinner begins at 6:30 pm on Saturday, July 23, at Bella Notte al Lago del Gambuzza, the home of Belinda and Frank Gambuzza, 809 Emory Church Road in West Knoxville.

“Frank and I are excited to open our home to Chef Parolari, his sous chefs and supporters of the L5 Foundation,” says Belinda Gambuzza, who is a member of the L5 Foundation board of directors. “This is an important way we can support the cancer patients in our community.” To register for any of the Chef’s Week and Chef’s Dinner events, visit www.livefivefoundation.org/events. To prepare for the Chef’s Dinner, Parolari is teaming up with five regionally renowned chefs who will serve as his sous chefs at the dinner. Collectively the chefs will shop together to purchase locally sourced ingredients for the event. The sous chefs are: Kevin Green, owner of Chef Kevin; David Pinckney, executive chef at Cherokee Country Club; Aaron Swerksy, fishmonger at Abundant Seafood in Charleston, S.C.; Michael Sullivan, butcher and regional sales manager at Creekstone Farms in Arkansas City, Kansas; and Danny Wilhoit, executive chef at Bistro By the Tracks. In addition to the sous chefs, students from the University of Tennessee Culinary Institute will serve as hosts to the chefs and assist with the prep work for the Chef’s Dinner. “Food is an integral part of everyone’s life. We celebrate, comfort ourselves, grieve and heal with food,” Newman says. “One bite of our favorite dish can transport us back to memories of our childhood, an important trip or a momentous occasion. Food is life, and it sustains us physically, emotionally and spiritually. What better way to acknowledge the importance of food and nourishment in the life of a cancer patient than to celebrate that life with some of the best Italian cuisine in the world?” To learn more about the L5 Foundation as well as Chef’s Week and Chef’s Dinner 2016, visit www.livefivefoundation.org.]]>