Check out the complete image gallery from this year’s event. Want that adorable photo of you and your hubbie? Now you can purchase photos from the 2010 event, and all proceeds benefit the Deschutes Children’s Foundation. Prices are:
4×6 - $4
5×7 - $6
8×10 – $8
All photos are by digital-magicians.com and studio404photography.com.
Check out these great pictures from this year’s event. Doesn’t it bring back memories? Photos by studio404photography.com.
Check out the video of this year’s Sagebrush Classic:
Teenages mothers often find themselves in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations. Grandma’s House, a nonprofit, faith-based home and outreach provides safe shelter to homeless and abused pregnant, parenting and adopting girls between the ages of 12 and 19. The goal of Grandma’s House is to help each young woman become self sufficient and able to make responsible decisions for herself and her child.
The Sagebrush Classic first provided financial support to Grandma’s House in 2001 and last year gave them a $5,000 grant that allowed Grandma’s House to maintain its staff while working with an increased number of clients. In 2009, 14 homeless, pregnant or parenting teens and 13 infants received shelter, counseling and medical attention. The teens also learned life skills. Twenty-two past residents (up from 13 in 2008) received post counseling and support. Twelve youth (who were not pregnant) participated in the nonprofit’s pregnancy awareness and prevention programs, and 588 individuals were helped through Grandma’s Closet.
Sagebrush Classic fans submitted so many wonderful beerkus this year, it was difficult to choose just one winner.
This year’s winner is Rachel:
Pour the twilight ale
Breath in the warm wind of night
Summer has begun
Hmm, a twilight ale is sounding pretty good right about now, thanks to Rachel’s lovely poem.
Check out all the top entries at Portland Food and Drink.com.
One of my favorites is by Brian:
Miss Spelt, Not Miss Spelled
She, a thirst quenching temptress
Please don’t tell my wife.
Thanks to the Food Dude for running a great beerku contest, and thanks to everyone who entered this year!
Born in De Lat, Vietnam in 1962, Chef Charles Phan and his family left the country in 1975, eventually settling in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Chef Phan’s interest in cooking stemmed from his mother’s consistently elevating simple Vietnamese foods to new levels and he was charmed by the American traditions of Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts.
After several jobs, he opened a small créperie in a hotel before setting out on his own with The Slanted Door. This restaurant has been a phenomenal success with food featuring fresh local ingredients, a relaxed atmosphere, Riesling-driven wine list, full bar with premium brands, fresh squeezed juices, and hard-to-find Chinese teas. It is consistently ranked as one of the most highly esteemed restaurants in San Francisco. Charles recently opened Out The Door, a sister restaurant that is a to-go-only kiosk located next to The Slanted Door.
Bend's Community Center connects the homeless and low-income youth with free bicycles.
Though the Sagebrush Classic attracts world-renowned chefs, it’s truly a community event. That’s why Deschutes Brewery is proud to support Bend’s Community Center through the Sagebrush Classic, providing the nonprofit with $6,000 in funding last year.
Bend’s Community Center offers a wide range of social services to children and families, including Feed The Hungry (the largest food kitchen in Central Oregon, providing 1,200 meals per week), Keep Them Warm (collection and distribution of winter clothing and outdoor survival gear), Becca’s Closet (formal wear for low-income teens) and Bend’s Community Bike Shed (providing free bikes to the homeless and low-income youth). Plus, the nonprofit operate a thrift store, a diaper bank and a job training program.
Since the downturn in the economy, Bend’s Community Center has experienced a sharp increase in demand for services, and at the same time it’s seen a drop in many of its regular sources of support.
“The funding from the Sagebrush Classic for general operations was invaluable and came at a critical time for our organization,” said Bruce Abernethy, Bend’s Community Center board president “ . . . The Sagebrush funding literally allowed us to keep staff on and our doors open.”
Chef Vitaly Paley was born near Kiev in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in 1976. Trained as a concert pianist from childhood, he studied at the Julliard School before shifting his creative energies to cooking. In 1989, he earned a Grand Diploma from the French Culinary Institute in New York and refined his skills at the Union Square Café, Remi and Chanterelle in New York. He then apprenticed at the two-star Michelin restaurant, Moulin de la Gorce near Limoges, France.
By opening Paley’s Place in 1995, a restaurant with only 50 seats, Vitaly and his wife Kimberly have made a commitment to creativity and flexibility in cuisine, sophistication in service, and intimacy in the dining experience. Chef Paley has received numerous enthusiastic accolades, including the coveted James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest in 2005.
The restaurant is continually featured in magazines and newspapers across the country – from the New York Times and Oprah Magazine to Gourmet, Bon Appetit and Sunset. Vitaly has appeared on television broadcasts like the Martha Stewart Show, Oprah, OPB’s Endless Feast, and Chefs A’Field, further showcasing his commitment to sustainable, seasonal Pacific NW cuisine.
As William Carlos Williams once wrote, “men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” By focusing on art and nature, the nonprofit Caldera widens the scope of what disadvantage youth can find in their lives. The Sagebrush Classic supports this effort, and last year awarded Caldera its first grant from Sagebrush, a total of $5,000.
Caldera reaches out to disadvantaged sixth-graders and stays engaged with them into college through weekly mentoring, workshops with professional artists, a variety of special events and a life-changing arts and nature camp experience. They provide focused, ongoing mentoring to 115 students in five Central Oregon schools, with secondary outreach to more than 5,000 students. Support from the Sagebrush Classic has allowed Caldera to continue serving these youth in the current challenging fundraising climate.
Brooklyn-based choreographer Reggie Wilson leads a traditional call-and-response exercise with Central Oregon Caldera students.
¡OBA! Restaurante – Portland
In addition to his 
duties at the restaurant, Chef Scott Neuman has hosted a radio show, “Dining Out in the Northwest,” for more than eight years. Oba was called “the best place to eat while in Portland” by The New York Times and chosen as “Restaurant of the Year” by Willamette Week. Oba serves Nuevo Latino cuisine – “the kind of comfort food you’d find on a sultry Cuban plantation in the 1950s, or in a spacious South American hacienda today,” as Neuman says – and is strongly committed to using sustainable, natural, organic and regional products whenever possible.