A Tasteful Experience at the Pleasantdale Chateau

by Melody Kettle


Last year, Hot From The Kettle® attended the Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation’s signature event, A Tasteful Experience. 

This year, the event will be held on Monday, November 12, 2012, at the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange, NJ. Funds raised will benefit the Medical Center’s Child Life Program which helps children and their families cope with illness and hospitalization.

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A Tasteful Experience!

by Melody Kettle


Well over 350 wine and food lovers attended A Tasteful Experience last night at the Pleasantdale Chateau.

The event, which benefits the Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation featured inventive tastings from our area’s best restaurants, like CulinAriane, Fascino, Bar Cara, Giotto, The Orange Squirrel, Blu, Toast, Mesob, and many others. 

There was plenty of wine as well! For the seventh year in a row, Sharon Sevrens, proprietor of Amanti Vino, coordinated eighty wines that were enjoyed over the course of the evening. 

Enjoy the slideshow and the video!

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Time For A Tasteful Experience

by Melody Kettle in


It's time for A Tasteful Experience! The annual Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation's signature food event of the Fall will take place on on Monday, November 14, 2011.  The food-studded charity event will be hosted at one of New Jersey’s most beautiful and exclusive banquet facitilities, the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange.  If you've never been there, take the Hot From The Kettle video tour of the Chateau!

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