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Food and philanthropy mix for ‘Mama’s Day’ in La Jolla

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Kasey Crancer, Jen Parsons and Mieko Robert greet visitors to the Piatti Ristorante & Bar table at Mama’s Kitchen’s “Mama’s Day” event.  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Debra and Howard Solomon and Kelly Zien  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Josh, Lisa and Callie Efron, Erica Friedman and Brian Efron  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Mama’s Kitchen chief of food service operations Jason Martini, director of development Jenna Novotny, Chief Executive Alberto Cortes, board President Tom Kwan, event speaker Rocio Rodriguez and event culinary host Sam “The Cooking Guy” Zien gather for the Mama’s Kitchen “Mama’s Day” event at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla.  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Some of the food offered at the various “Mama’s Day” booths is laid out for hungry guests.  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Markissa Hollman, Jamie York and Monia Tonazzo  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Kate Hutson and Adam Rosenberg  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Chocolate lovers could partake of the dipping bar.  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Timothy Reed, Hyatt Regency La Jolla events director Bryan Crail, Ken Adamski and Don Caulfield  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Dave Patterson, Helene Siesel, Don and Carol Nelepovitz and Tony Kawakami  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Craig Smith, Jeff Robers, Alex Tiscareno and David Schrager  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Joan Bentley, Grace Garza and Heidi Striler  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Rachel Burns, Raine Arndt-Couch, Wiara Jackson and Katherine LaMee  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Richard Ogden, Regina Rooney and Haydee and Federico Alderete  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Brian Weathersbee, Roger Werback and Brian Curcio  (Vincent Andrunas)
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Vivi Eidsvig, April Heinze and Valerie Cook  (Vincent Andrunas)

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Mama’s Kitchen, a San Diego nonprofit that works to provide home-delivered meals to people with critical illnesses, presented its 32nd annual “Mama’s Day” event featuring tastes of cuisine from 19 area restaurants on May 4 at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine hotel.

TV cook, restaurateur and cookbook author Sam “The Cooking Guy” Zien served as culinary host for the evening, which also included an auction.

All proceeds go to help people who are at risk of malnutrition because of cancer, congestive heart failure, Type 2 diabetes, HIV, kidney disease and more.

More than $100,000 has been raised as of May 14.

— La Jolla Light staff ◆

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