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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm great to see although there's less of you now.
I'm so proud of you for your health journey.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well thanks. You know, get a little warning from the
dock and he says, you know, you better listen, lose
some weight and clean up your diet or you're going
to have a heart attacks. And I said, okay, I
got the message.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
That's what you needed here right right, So Russell, Yes,
it's Christiana Russell.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I see, I know you have to do phonetics.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I go Russell and I see is it Raussel?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But the event is back once again this Sunday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So the annual champagne and fried chicken picnic that's hosted
by the Birmingham Chapter of Birmingham's Leadames Dyscoffier.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Did you hear me try? I did.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I was listing on the way in Less.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Dames day Scope here Sampagny.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
All of that matters is that people will get online
to lde i Birmingham dot org and buy a picnic basket.
We only have about twenty left to sell. So the
event is this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And it starts at four o'clock at Pepper Place and
we do a drive through.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
People can come and and pick up a picnic basket
of champagne, fried chicken, all the great southern sides.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
This sounds like, I don't know, a mini series on
you know Netflix the title of this where it's very
French or British. Somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Are we having an open casting call and there's.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
People walking around with silver trays and pinkys up in the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Air well, it would be the Burbingham version of that.
It's very hospitable. So it's you know, with elevated food,
but with a Southern flair.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, So what is the organization? It's part of the
culinary scene.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yes, exactly. Thanks for saying that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We are an international organization of women in food, wine
and hospitality and our mission is to support other women
in those industries. So think chefs stressed on tours, food
writers like myself, auticians.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
What do you got against men? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Nothing? We would love all men to come and buy out,
ok kid, I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Kidding really well, this event has been going on. How
many years now, have you?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think this is the sixth year.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
We started during COVID because we wanted to still have
a fundraiser, and we started to drive through and now
it's been amplified to kind of a street party.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So you can still do a drive through.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Or come and park your car and we'll have other
food on site that's available.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Drinks, We've got cocktails right right.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
When you say support women in the industry with this event,
when you raise the money, I guess this is what
you're doing. Where does that money actually go to? What
do you do with that?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So the money that we earn each fall with this fundraiser,
we award in scholarships, entrepreneurial grants, and educational scholarships to
other women in these industries.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Going to school to learn.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Now going to school, they may be.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
At Auburn, they maybe at jeff State something like that,
or they may be needing seed money to start a business.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Is the Culinary School in Birmingham still here?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh, they closed down?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, okay, yeah, they were doing really well. I remember
going and seeing that used to be over off of
West Valley or Oxborn. Yep, and correct.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Me if I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But you know, maybe they moved. Maybe it's possible, okay,
but they had a great facility.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
They did.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But you should see the one that's down at Auburn.
That the Altonian Liverrain building down there. The horse chulcya
school house fatality is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, all right, well listen the events Pepper place this
Sunday afternoon. Yes, and you don't have to buy tickets
in advance.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Or can you?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You actually do have to buy tickets and you can't
just show up. No, if you show up, we may
be sold out. We're probably going to be sold out.
So go to lde I Birmingham dot org to purchase
your basket and if we are sold out, still come
down and enjoy the street party. We'll have all the
doms there. I'll be greeting people when they come down.
I have personally purchased a basket and going to give
it away to one person if they go to my
(03:30):
Instagram page.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
If I can get that out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Okay, it's Christiana dot or Christiana dot resel on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Le dom de Escaffier.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Dom's yeah Escuffier.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What does that mean in English? Them?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The women of Augusta Escaffier. He was a famous French chef.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, all right, yes, Also I want to ask you
about your new podcast, I Heeart Radio.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Have thank you?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Tell everybody about your podcast. I've seen a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, thank you this.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You've done a great job as a beginner and starting
this and your travels and what you do. And I
mean every time I see you online on social media,
you're hunting elk somewhere you're pheasant honey with you know.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I mean I haven't gotten to elk yet, but I
share with heck. Would like to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But I love you know, design decor, I love hunting,
I love being outside. I love food makers. So the
podcast I do is for Soul Grown Alabama. It's produced
by them, and it's called a Field with Christianna Roussel.
So I interview chefs, artists, conservationists. We just did one
with Ali from Alabama who does catfish noodling.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, no, thanks. Have you ever done it?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I'm going to go next.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Bring you would do it.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You're going to get in the water and stick your
hand under things.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You can't see. I want to try wiggle around to you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, something bite.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
On your hand.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'll wear a glove.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Braver than I am. No. Thanks, So in your day
job when you're not putting together great events or doing
your podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, you're a writer, correct food travel lifestyle writer. I'm
a freelance so I write for a number of publications
like Garden and Gun, Good Grit, Michol Palace, Birmingham Home
and Garden.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well you got it going on. You're busy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I am busy, but have a I have a heck
of a good time.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well it sounds like it. And you know, for somebody
that gets to eat fancy foods, they're usually rich. You know,
you're stay in pretty good shape. And yeah, so all right,
well once again, don't miss this event. It's a great event.
You're gonna have a blast with it and it goes
to a great cost helping women in the culinary field.
So once again the event is called.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It's Champagne and Fried Chicken Picnic, hosted by the Birmingham
chapter of La Dame's Discoffier.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, and where do they go once again to
get the tickets?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
L D e I Birmingham dot Org l d EI.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
All right, all right, all right, well great to see
you in good luck this weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
With I hope I see you there.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
All right, sounds good to me.
I'm great to see although there's less of you now.
I'm so proud of you for your health journey.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well thanks. You know, get a little warning from the
dock and he says, you know, you better listen, lose
some weight and clean up your diet or you're going
to have a heart attacks. And I said, okay, I
got the message.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
That's what you needed here right right, So Russell, Yes,
it's Christiana Russell.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I know.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I see, I know you have to do phonetics.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I go Russell and I see is it Raussel?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
But the event is back once again this Sunday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yes, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
So the annual champagne and fried chicken picnic that's hosted
by the Birmingham Chapter of Birmingham's Leadames Dyscoffier.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Did you hear me try? I did.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I was listing on the way in Less.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Dames day Scope here Sampagny.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
All of that matters is that people will get online
to lde i Birmingham dot org and buy a picnic basket.
We only have about twenty left to sell. So the
event is this Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
And it starts at four o'clock at Pepper Place and
we do a drive through.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
People can come and and pick up a picnic basket
of champagne, fried chicken, all the great southern sides.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
This sounds like, I don't know, a mini series on
you know Netflix the title of this where it's very
French or British. Somewhere.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Are we having an open casting call and there's.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
People walking around with silver trays and pinkys up in the.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Air well, it would be the Burbingham version of that.
It's very hospitable. So it's you know, with elevated food,
but with a Southern flair.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, So what is the organization? It's part of the
culinary scene.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yes, exactly. Thanks for saying that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
We are an international organization of women in food, wine
and hospitality and our mission is to support other women
in those industries. So think chefs stressed on tours, food
writers like myself, auticians.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
What do you got against men? Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Nothing? We would love all men to come and buy out,
ok kid, I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Kidding really well, this event has been going on. How
many years now, have you?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I think this is the sixth year.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
We started during COVID because we wanted to still have
a fundraiser, and we started to drive through and now
it's been amplified to kind of a street party.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So you can still do a drive through.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Or come and park your car and we'll have other
food on site that's available.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Drinks, We've got cocktails right right.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
When you say support women in the industry with this event,
when you raise the money, I guess this is what
you're doing. Where does that money actually go to? What
do you do with that?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
So the money that we earn each fall with this fundraiser,
we award in scholarships, entrepreneurial grants, and educational scholarships to
other women in these industries.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Going to school to learn.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Now going to school, they may be.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
At Auburn, they maybe at jeff State something like that,
or they may be needing seed money to start a business.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Is the Culinary School in Birmingham still here?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh, they closed down?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, okay, yeah, they were doing really well. I remember
going and seeing that used to be over off of
West Valley or Oxborn. Yep, and correct.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Me if I'm wrong on that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But you know, maybe they moved. Maybe it's possible, okay,
but they had a great facility.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
They did.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But you should see the one that's down at Auburn.
That the Altonian Liverrain building down there. The horse chulcya
school house fatality is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, all right, well listen the events Pepper place this
Sunday afternoon. Yes, and you don't have to buy tickets
in advance.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Or can you?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
You actually do have to buy tickets and you can't
just show up. No, if you show up, we may
be sold out. We're probably going to be sold out.
So go to lde I Birmingham dot org to purchase
your basket and if we are sold out, still come
down and enjoy the street party. We'll have all the
doms there. I'll be greeting people when they come down.
I have personally purchased a basket and going to give
it away to one person if they go to my
(03:30):
Instagram page.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
If I can get that out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Okay, it's Christiana dot or Christiana dot resel on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Le dom de Escaffier.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Dom's yeah Escuffier.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What does that mean in English? Them?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
The women of Augusta Escaffier. He was a famous French chef.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, all right, yes, Also I want to ask you
about your new podcast, I Heeart Radio.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Have thank you?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Tell everybody about your podcast. I've seen a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, thank you this.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You've done a great job as a beginner and starting
this and your travels and what you do. And I
mean every time I see you online on social media,
you're hunting elk somewhere you're pheasant honey with you know.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I mean I haven't gotten to elk yet, but I
share with heck. Would like to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
But I love you know, design decor, I love hunting,
I love being outside. I love food makers. So the
podcast I do is for Soul Grown Alabama. It's produced
by them, and it's called a Field with Christianna Roussel.
So I interview chefs, artists, conservationists. We just did one
with Ali from Alabama who does catfish noodling.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, no, thanks. Have you ever done it?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, I'm going to go next.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Bring you would do it.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You're going to get in the water and stick your
hand under things.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You can't see. I want to try wiggle around to you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, something bite.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
On your hand.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I'll wear a glove.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Braver than I am. No. Thanks, So in your day
job when you're not putting together great events or doing
your podcast.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yes, you're a writer, correct food travel lifestyle writer. I'm
a freelance so I write for a number of publications
like Garden and Gun, Good Grit, Michol Palace, Birmingham Home
and Garden.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Well you got it going on. You're busy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I am busy, but have a I have a heck
of a good time.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well it sounds like it. And you know, for somebody
that gets to eat fancy foods, they're usually rich. You know,
you're stay in pretty good shape. And yeah, so all right,
well once again, don't miss this event. It's a great event.
You're gonna have a blast with it and it goes
to a great cost helping women in the culinary field.
So once again the event is called.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It's Champagne and Fried Chicken Picnic, hosted by the Birmingham
chapter of La Dame's Discoffier.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, and where do they go once again to
get the tickets?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
L D e I Birmingham dot Org l d EI.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
All right, all right, all right, well great to see
you in good luck this weekend.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
With I hope I see you there.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
All right, sounds good to me.
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