The B. Aware Campaign was recently kicked off with a culinary experience at the B. restaurant at the Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center.
Many from nearby Oakbrook Terrace most likely attended the event, not only for the meal, but also to learn more about honeybees in the community.
The dinner consisted of five courses made with fermented honey (mead), house honey, or bee pollen, along with local ingredients prepared by Executive Chef Sean Curry and Chef de Cuisine Jose Valdez. Freshly-made mead cocktails or mead wine or were paired with the courses, and guests took home a bottle of mead from Wild Blossom Meadery.
A percentage of the proceeds from the dinner went to benefit The Honeybee Conservancy. Established in 2009, the nonprofit organization supports bee research, encourages communities to support their local beekeepers, and urges them to act as stewards for bees.
Chef Curry is a certified beekeeper and takes care of 10 hives at the resort. His recipes include honey that he harvests from these hives. He and Chef Valdez are also spearheading many other bee awareness programs, including free public tours of the hives that are on the property, honey harvesting/extracting demonstrations, and a beekeeper display and observatory located in the lobby. No doubt Brochures have been printed to provide more information about bees and raise honeybee awareness.
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