Chef Groupie Alert: Rocco Commits to Chefs for Scher Scholarship Benefit

        Rocco Dispirito has joined the constellation of star chefs cooking Monday, July 13 to raise scholarship funds for aspiring restaurateurs at “Chefs for Scher.” The fund will be run through the James Beard Foundation as a memorial to the late Stephen Scher of Main Street Group (Calle Ocho, BarBao, BLT Steak, BLT Prime) who died at 50 in December.

        Well, we know Rocco can dance and sell wine, but can he still cook?

        Joining Chef Laurent Tourondel of BLT Restaurants at the Bowery Terrace in the Bowery Hotel will be Chef Franklin Becker (Abe & Arthur’s), Ed Brown (EightyOne), Scott Conant (Scarpetta), John DeLucie (Waverly Inn),  Bobby Flay (Mesa Grill, Bar Americain, Bobby’s Burger Palace), John Fraser (Dovetail), Alex Garcia (Calle Ocho), Michael Huynh (BarBao), Stephen Kalt (Epicurean Concepts), Elizabeth Katz (BR Guest Restaurants), Paul Liebrandt (Corton), Marc Murphy (Landmarc), Chef Nancy Olson (Gramercy Tavern), and Jean-Georges Vongerichten (Jean Georges, Spice Market).

        To purchase tickets visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/68111 or call 1.800.838.3006. 

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