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founding
& chairing the James Beard Foundation Women's Leadership Program
(2011-2021)
WICL
James Beard Vermilion Women's Leadership
Women in Culinary Leadership (WCL)
Women's Entrepreneur Leadership (WEL)
Owning It
Cocktails,
Panel & Dinner with Gail Simmons, Dana Cowin, Kristen Kish,
Michael White, Susan Ungaro & Rohini Deye
(more details)
James Beard Foundation & Vermilion partner on
Chefs for Women
Support the Women in Culinary scholarship. Starting October 1st
(more details)
Vermilion founder Rohini's ongoing "From the Gut"
Sun Times celebrity page on restaurants (click here)
dosa taco bar, mix & match
an array of fillings (potato, chorizo, anchovy, avocado, beef, more) chutney & salsas
(click here)
latin cocktails with a twist
(click here)
Rohini participates in Indiaspora
(click here)
Vermilion Tasting menus:
Seared (meats), Deep (seafood), Green (vegetarian) & Omnivore - 10 element extravaganzas
"latin express lunch"
three course lunch prix fixe $ 24
inspired & innovated weekly
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Farrokh
Chothia fashion photography evening
with The Art Institute of Chicago |
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We
celebrated our first anniversary by introducing Chicago
to India’s leading fashion photographer. Farrokh’s
enormous, vivid and sensual images of Indian women adorn
the walls of Vermilion and complement the bold femininity
of our concept. Farrokh unveiled his never before seen
personal art collection - over 60 vivid, enormous and
yet intimate portraits of beautiful women in a redefinition
of Indian femininity. For more on Farrokh visit
www.farrokhchothia.com |
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Salman
Rushdie dines at Vermilion |
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Fashion
show with Cultural Center of Chicago - One Exotic Evening |
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Vermilion
and The Chicago Office of Tourism hosted One Exotic
Evening – an exclusive pairing of food and high
fashion. This event was presented in collaboration with
renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Chicago
project, a yearlong celebration that explores the artistic
traditions and cross-cultural connections that unite
in Chicago. Guests enjoyed fashion and the exotic Indian-Latin
flavors at Vermilion, including tapas and herb and spice
cocktails. A fashion show showcasing the creations of
leading Chicago designers (including the Indian fashions
of Payal Sinha, jewelry by Cheena Chandra, handbags
by Brazilian designer Diego Rochas) took place throughout
the event.
Factio
writes on the evening |
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Madhur
Jaffrey Panel with AIF – Indian food in the US |
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Vermilion
and the America India Foundation (AIF) hosted Madhur
Jaffrey, James Beard award-winning author and Bollywood
and Broadway actress, for a special luncheon in conjunction
with her latest book (Climbing the Mango Trees)
and a celebration of Indian cuisine in the U.S. The
event included a panel discussion - Owner Rohini Dey
and Author Madhur Jaffrey discussed “Bringing
Indian Cuisine to the U.S.: Two Perspectives,”
folloed by a book reading and a three-course luncheon.
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Suketu
Mehta book launch at Vermilion
(Pullitzer finalist author) |
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Vermilion
was delighted to introduce accomplished author Suketu
Mehta to Chicago and host his book launch, in collaboration
with Mayor Daley’s CSCIP, Delhi Committee.
Raised in Bombay and based in New York, Mehta’s
work has been published in the New York Times Magazine,
Wall Street Journal, Granta, Time, and Harper’s
Magazine, among others. MAXIMUM CITY offers an intimate
look at what many consider the city of the future, Bombay:
an alluringly chaotic place that’s bursting at
the seams and at the crazy mix of contradictions and
possibilities that draws millions to Bombay. It has
received praise from writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri,
Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie, who says "It's
the best book written about that great, ruined metropolis...
and it deserves to be very widely read." for more
on the author visit www.suketumehta.com |
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Chitra
Banerjee Divakaruni book reading & dinner |
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Vermilion
and Desilit hosted acclaimed author Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni for an evening of food, drink and conversation.
Chitra is an award-winning author and poet and her writing
centers around the immigrant experience, an important
theme in today’s world. Her novel The Mistress
of Spices has been turned into a movie (by Gurinder
Chadha, producer of Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and
Prejudice), her book Arranged Marriage a collection
of short stories won the American Book Award and the
Pen award for fiction
(http://www.desilit.org/weblog/archives/2005/10/exclusive_dinne.html) |
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Bollywood
and Bombay foods: Take 1 through 6, Bollywood festival
at Vermilion |
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It’s
in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, it’s
a National Geographic special report, it’s
on Broadway, it’s running in mainstream
American theater, it’s on Letterman and
the Oprah Show! Bollywood, or the Indian equivocal
for Hollywood |
(the
Bombay film industry), is creeping into multiple facets
of American culture, filtering into everyday vocabulary,
transcending global appeal.
| Melodramatic,
full of song, fantasy ridden, heavily emotional
and heroic, Bollywood movies are a vivid celebration
of life. Many say food and flavors are ones last
tie to a home culture, Indians may argue Bollywood
movies form our lasting link to our country. |
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Vermilion delighted in celebrating and meshing our foods
and our pop culture with 6 fabulous events over the
course of 6 months in 2005.
Take 1 through 6. Lights, camera, action……… |
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some
of the Vermilion annual traditions |
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Diwali
Weeklong Festival of Lights celebration with traditional
foods, décor, drinks and dancing
Holi
Weeklong festival of color with traditional foods,
décor, drinks and dancing
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Herb & Spice Thanksgiving
Lauded for our “unabashed innovation”
by Bon Appetit and always a sellout
Herb & Spice Christmas
Aphrodisiac in Lush Red - Valentines
Dinner
Decadence – New Year’s
Eve celebration |
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