{"id":7333,"date":"2013-05-31T07:04:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2013-05-31T07:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:04:43","slug":"north-central-nama-gathers-for-culinary-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7333","title":{"rendered":"North Central NAMA Gathers for Culinary Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"638\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/NC-members-cooking-dinner-5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7339\" title=\"NC-members-cooking-dinner-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/NC-members-cooking-dinner-5.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>North Central NAMA members gathered May 20 for a unique culinary experience in Minneapolis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitcheninthemarket.com\/visit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Midtown Global Market<\/a>. The event kicked off with a champagne cocktail and a local cheese tasting course.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the group was split into six teams and given assignments for their portion of the dinner menu.This, of course, necessitated a shopping trip in the market visiting various ethnic grocery vendors to purchase the needed ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 Once the ingredients were purchased, the teams donned aprons and set about creating their masterpieces, on the fly, and with guidance from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kitchen in the Market\u00e2\u20ac\u009d staff.\u00c2\u00a0 The six dishes were all deemed a success and were enjoyed as a family-style dinner afterwards.\u00c2\u00a0 It proved a great opportunity to learn about and use fresh, local, in-season products, along with a wonderful opportunity to network with each other.\u00c2\u00a0 The group, as a whole, decided this should be a repeat in the chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s programming next year.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Minnesota\u00c2\u00a0student NAMA chapter\u00c2\u00a0was applauded for their first place win in the NAMA marketing competition in April.\u00c2\u00a0 A plaque recognizing their win was shown to the group.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, Cheri Johnson, Weber Shandwick, and Melissa Norby, The Lacek Group, both won gift cards recognizing their efforts for the North Central\u00c2\u00a0chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s membership drive.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Central NAMA members gathered May 20 for a unique culinary experience in Minneapolis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Midtown Global Market. The event kicked off with a champagne cocktail and a local cheese tasting course.\u00c2\u00a0 Then the group was split into six teams and given assignments for their portion of the dinner menu.This, of course, necessitated a shopping trip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general","category-student-nama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}