On Sunday Feb 22nd you needed to grab your comfy pants and a bib and slurp your way through the steaming gauntlet of broths, bisques, chowders and minestrones at the 16th annual fundraiser for Our Kids, which provides help for families affected by child sexual abuse. The event features tastings of soup from dozens of local restaurants—including Watermark, Bricktop's, Wild Ginger and City House--the chefs competed for the coveted Golden Spoon and Silver Ladle awards. Tickets were $20 for adults, $8 for kids and $40 for the whole family.

If you had been there, you would have tasted some of the best soup Nashville has to offer and cast your vote for your favorite soup! This year's judges were Titan's defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch, Channel 4's Rudy Kalis, The Scene's Carrington Fox, Author and Restaurater Daisy King and former Titan and MBA Coach Chris Sanders. The event also features a silent auction, magician, balloon artists, face painters, and fun-loving clowns and caricaturists. Our Kids' Soup Sunday is a fundraising event supported by US Bank and benefits Our Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides medical evaluations and crisis counseling for children and families where there are allegations or concerns of child sexual abuse.

At the silent auction, the Middle Tennessee Chapter donated a Chef's Table for 10 people. These two volunteers were stationed at the auction table to explain to folks what the donation package entailed - Our auction item brought $1200.00 to Our Kids.	Our Chapter turned our big time to support this special Charity - some of our members that had their own booths: Kim Ingram from Chaffins Barn; Matt Simonds from Vanderbilt Marriott; Rick Kahre of J&M Catering; Cathy Hoormann from Kickin Coffee.   Tammy Sandlin and Michael Adams both had students entered into the Pro-Am competition .

   Special thanks to Chef Gary Rawson, with his help the soup got donated and made at the Vanderbilt Rand facility. A tip of the toque to Chef Anna Hicks, Chef Mark Rubin and Chef Nancy Campbell for their efforts in manning the MTC-ACF Booth

The soup was a tasty cheese soup that featured crawfish tails and andouille sausage. The great work of Gary, Anna, Mark, and Nancy yielded us the coveted Silver Ladle Prize for the most creative soup. Our Chapter can put another notch in our culinary belt.

Our greatest satisfaction in this event is to be able to donate our Chef's Table for 10. The Our Kids Charity was able to auction the dinner off for $1200.00 to add to their efforts.
See you next year at Souper Sunday!!