6 Top Boston Chefs To Prepare 5-course Benefit Dinner Honoring Dr. Jane Goodall

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SIX OF BOSTONS TOP CHEFS TO PREPARE FIVE-COURSE BENEFIT DINNER HONORING DR. JANE GOODALL

Fundraiser to Benefit Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment

BOSTON: The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School has awarded its 2003 Global Environmental Citizen Award to Dr. Jane Goodall. Goodall, the legendary primatologist renowned for her work with chimpanzees in Tanzania, will be honored at a benefit dinner at Hamersley's Bistro on Monday, April 28, 2003, at 7:00 P.M.

The dinner will feature organic agriculture, sustainable seafood, environmentally raised livestock, organic wine and organic, free-trade coffee. The five-course meal will be prepared and presented by six of Boston's top chefs -- Gordon Hamersley of Hamersley's Bistro, Ana Sortun of Oleana, Jody Adams of Rialto, Steve Johnson of The Blue Room, Rich Vallente of Legal Sea Foods, and Chris Douglass of Icarus.

The money raised from the dinner will support the programs at Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment, whose goal is to raise awareness about the human health consequences of environmental change. The Center is the first medical school-based center in the United States to bring scientific rigor to the relationship between human health and the health of the global environment.

"There is a direct correlation between the food we consume every day and the environment," says the Center's Director Dr. Eric Chivian, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for his work with Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. "It's wonderful to involve such celebrated chefs in our mission. Not only do these talented chefs all bring a great deal of attention to our cause, but they are dedicated environmentalists by what food they allow to be brought in, cooked and consumed in their establishments. By doing so, they are informed messengers of today's environmental threats and solutions."

The benefit dinner will directly follow the Boston premier of the IMAX film "Wild Chimpanzees" based on Goodall's work. Tickets for IMAX and award presentation Dr. Jane Goodall are available for $100.00.

For reservations to attend the reception and dinner at Hamersley's Bistro please call 617-384-8530. Tickets are $250 and tax deductible. Hamersley's Bistro is located at 553 Tremont Street in Boston's South End. For further information, a photo of Eric Chivian and Jane Goodall or any of the six chefs, please contact Chris Haynes at CBH Communications at 617-266-7642. For further information about Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment contact Kathleen Frith 617-384-8591.