City Harvest's Mid-winter Escape March 5, 2013

City Harvest’s Leadership Council will host its second annual signature fundraising event, A Mid-Winter Escape event at Apella (450 East 29th Street) on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

The evening will provide 300 guests with special tastings while supporting City Harvest and its programs that help feel New York’s hungry. This year’s event will feature a taste of Mexico highlighting local restaurants, including Hill Country Chicken, El Toro Blanco, Toloache, Gran Electrica and Momofuku Milk Bar. Guests will also enjoy a performance from Nine Days, best known for the hit single “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)”. Last year’s event, The Big Easy in the Big Apple, featured a Mardi Gras theme and included tastings from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, Gravy, The Little Owl and more.

Ticket prices start at $150 and ticket packages at $1,000. Tickets are on sale at www.cityharvest.org Please visit www.cityharvest.org or call Leah Burke at 646-412-0650 for more information about A Mid-Winter Escape.

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About City Harvest:
Now serving New York City for 30 years, City Harvest (www.cityharvest.org) is the world's first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children. This year, City Harvest will collect more than 42 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to some 600 community food programs throughout New York City by a fleet of trucks and bikes. City Harvest helps feed the more than one million New Yorkers that face hunger each year.