JOHN HOWIE MAKES PLANS TO SCORE BIG FOR FOOD LIFELINE AND DEFEAT HUNGER IN WASHINGTON STATE

Food Lifeline

                                 Cathy Lalley, Director of Marketing

                                                                      Phone:  (425) 456-0010 x52

Seattle, Washington – John Howie is on a mission to help Washington score big for Food Lifeline and defeat hunger.  Never one to sit on the sidelines, the award winning chef/restaurateur is organizing a series of events as part of the “Kick Hunger Challenge” competition sponsored by Taste of the NFL, which has the potential to make a huge difference both nationally and in our local community.  Howie, the Seahawks’ chef representative for the Super Bowl (as part of the annual Taste of the NFL) is hoping to give Seattle the home field advantage by becoming the top fundraising city, in which case the TNFL will match what is raised locally.  Those doubled dollars will go directly to Washington State’s Food Lifeline.  The Challenge runs through February 2, 2013.

Using the West Coast offense, Howie plans to start the touchdown drive in the fight against hunger through the donation of proceeds from the following events:

Contest for The Challenge:

Any fan who donates $25 or more in the name of the Seattle Seahawks for the Kick Hunger Challenge will be entered into a raffle for a Super Bowl party for 8 people. The winner will score a field goal with his sports-minded pals when SPORT Restaurant & Bar Chef Shane Gentry serves game day fare and cold beer to their reserved table in front of the restaurant’s big screen TV’s on Super Bowl Sunday.

Each of the John Howie Group restaurants will be offering a specialty Super Bowl XLVII (to be held in New Orleans) themed cocktail, with $1 going to The Kick Hunger Challenge for every one sold.  At John Howie Steak, guests can enjoy a classic taste of the South with a Café Sazerac which features Woodinville Rye Whiskey, sweet vermouth, a raw sugar cube, coffee bitters and Absinthe wash stirred over ice, and strained into a martini glass.   Seastar –  Bellevue will feature the Howie Hurricane made with Cruzan Silver rum and a house mix of pineapple juice, Bordeaux cherry juice, pomegranate juice, house-made sweet & sour and Amaretto.  The bar at Seastar in Seattle will be serving up the Pom Pom, a delicious combination of Pomegranate vodka, Aperol, cranberry juice and house-made fresh sour mix.  Sport Restaurant & Bar is sporting two different drinks:  the Super Bowl Hurricane and the Touchdown!  The former is made up of dark rum, passion fruit syrup and Pog (juices from passion fruit, orange, and guava) and the latter is a drop kick of orange vodka dropped into Red Bull.

 Saturday, November 24:   Stone Soup at Westlake Whole Foods

Thursday, January 10:  Craig Terrill Jambalaya Night at SPORT Restaurant & Bar

John Howie encourages Seahawk fans not to sit on the sidelines – everyone is needed to get into the game to help Taste of the NFL reach its goal of raising $300,000 which would provide 2.4 million meals through local food banks throughout all 32 NFL cities.

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