Living Proof Exhibit Partners With Bettendorf Restaurant To Help Artists, People Impacted by Cancer
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If you look around while youâre enjoying a great meal at Food Affair Bistro in Bettendorf (and you should do both), you should know most of the amazing artworks were created by cancer survivors in the region â paintings by Kent Broadbent, Annawan; Gina Kirschbaum, Bettendorf; Tara Moorman, Cedar Rapids, and several by Laura Goldman Weinberg, Fairfield, Iowa.
Itâs a new romance between the seven-month old restaurant (at Utica Ridge Road and Spruce Hills) and the 11-year-old Moline nonprofit Living Proof Exhibit (LPE) thatâs literally helping to improve peopleâs lives.

Namrata Mallik stands before some of the art she chose for her restaurant.
LPE â which annually organizes an exhibition of art by cancer survivors from a 200-mile radius of the Quad-Cities â coordinated the placement of the local art with the support of Food Affair co-owner Namrata Mallik, a physician whoâs passionate about cancer care. The restaurant also is providing selected menu items for the fourth-annual LPE fundraising event, âFlourish,â on Aug. 19 (NOTE: reservations for food cost $35 and must be made by Aug. 11). Living Proof offers a variety of free programming that shares the therapeutic benefits of the arts with people impacted by cancer.
âWe want to make sure people know the artwork is from Living Proof,â LPE executive director Pamela Crouch said this week of the art at Food Affair Bistro, which is for sale, and people can contact Crouch if theyâre interested in buying a piece. âThe artists arenât necessarily there to sell their work. They love the opportunity to be in a beautiful space, and theyâre also there to raise the awareness of our mission,â she said. âI am amazed at Dr. Mallik; she really understands what we do.â
For many years, LPE has displayed artwork of local cancer survivors at cancer centers of UnityPoint Health and Genesis in Moline and Davenport, and some artwork at Genesis is permanent. Each year, LPE has organized an exhibit, âThe Visualization of Hope,â of cancer survivor art at art museums and galleries in the region; the latest will open Aug. 16 at The University of Dubuque. But this is the first time Living Proof has provided artwork for a private

Namrata Mallik stands before some of the art she chose for her restaurant.
business, Crouch (herself a cancer survivor four times over) said.
âOnce we established what she was looking for, what she said was, âI wanted the art to mean something,â â she recalled of Dr. Mallik, whoâs in internal medicine with Genesis in Moline. âOh my gosh, this is perfect, it raises up everyone who comes in there. Theyâve had people come in, they ask, did you notice the artwork? Itâs all from cancer survivors, all from Living Proof, and people are amazed. Weâre reaching an audience, people can recommend our creative sessions, or my friend is a cancer survibor and he or she is an artist. Itâs helping us reach an entirely new audience. The fact that Dr. Mallik understands the mission perfectly, itâs a partnership made in heaven. Who knew?â
As a general practice physician (since 2008), who went to medical school in her home country of India, she is very passionate about cancer care, and did about three years cancer research while at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
âI felt it was very close to my heart,â Mallik said recently, noting Genesis in the Q-C has outstanding cancer care. She has an aunt in Rochester, Minn., who was treated for breast cancer at Mayo Clinic in 2015. Until last year, she didnât know an organization like Living Proof existed.
âIt was absolutely astonishing for me to realize that, oh my God, Iâm a physician â I see cancer patients so frequently. I donât know about it, and thatâs bad on my part,â Mallik said. âI was talking to Pamela and said it was horrible as a physician, I donât know about it. These are

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro.
resources that should be available; youâre just trying to help another person.â
In the past decade, she has seen more and more patients who have had cancer, which could be due to greater public awareness, early detection of symptoms, screening, diagnosis and treatment.
âI think itâs because weâve become more vigilant about our own body as a patient,â Mallik said. âItâs also better techniques available, to be able to test and diagnose. Another thing is, we have treatment for more things, so even though Iâm diagnosing you, if I donât have any options for you, whatâs the point?â
Owner of the restaurant with her cardiologist husband Rajiv, and their friends Karishma and Sanjay Pancholi, Mallik was introduced to LPE through Terry Wilson. They both serve on the board of Ballet Quad Cities, and he recommended meeting Crouch and getting to know LPE last fall.
âShe explained to me what Living Proof is, showing me her pamphlet, and I was talking to her about art and she mentioned her artists,â Mallik said. âI was looking at her art, and oh my God, this is gorgeous. At that time, the Figge was hosting them as an organization. She took

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro
me there and we checked everything out and I was like, oh my God, I love it. It helps tell the story.â
Art is much more meaningful when you can know the artist and understand the inspiration behind each piece, she said. âEvery piece here, either I know the artist or the story. Every piece has a story behind it and an emotion behind it, why it was done.â Both Mallik and Crouch were interested in displaying art by cancer survivors. The artists were all interested as well.
âThey all seemed interested; how can we help?â Mallik recalled. âThat was just because how they feel about Living Proof. It has nothing to do with me; itâs all about giving back to Living Proof.â Each work is available for sale, but they recently have not had plaques with identifying information, which will be added soon (without sale prices).
They drove to Fairfield, Iowa to meet Weinberg (a breast-cancer survivor) and see her work. Mallik ended up asking to show over a dozen abstract paintings.
How does making art help beat cancer?
The restaurant has copies of a pamphlet and bookmark promoting LPE. Mallik strongly agrees with the therapeutic benefits of the arts, long before she was aware of Living Proof.
âI think the first thing I was always told by my teachers, what is your attitude toward your disease, that guides how youâre going to do,â she

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro
said. âAttitude affects everything. How do you make a better attitude? Youâre amongst people who care for you, and you care for them. Youâre surrounded by art; youâre surrounded by things that you like. It just doesnât mean painting, it means any sort of art â music, dance.
âUsing your hands to do anything is just a very good way of being better,â Mallik said. âMake something â draw, use buttons to stick on paper. The most important thing Iâve found in chronic disease patients, is the need to use their hands in doing things, in any way you can. What the mission is, is exactly that â the organization tries to keep the cancer patients, survivors and also their caretakers involved. You still are a person. This does not define you; you shouldnât be stuck in the box, going from one chemotherapy to another chemotherapy, to radiation. That is not all you; you still are a person who has a child getting married in two months, or a child getting born in your family. That moved me, and I wanted to be part of it in any way possible.â

A painting by Kent Broadbent at Food Affair Bistro.
Of the LPE artists, she said: âThey are very good in giving you the time you need and want from them. They are just generous, completely generous people.â
Keeping a positive attitude is invaluable in improving disease treatment and recovery, Mallik said. âThen let the treatments work; be optimistic. These treatments arenât getting invented on you. They work; thatâs why theyâre still around. Give them a chance. If you go in thinking, nothingâs gonna work on me, itâs a matter of giving it a chance.â
Being creative boots your brain activity, she said. âIt keeps you away from having negative thoughts. When you have something in front of you, itâs a material product youâre told is beautiful, and I think it helps your mental health a lot more.â
In med school, Mallik was taught that 75 percent of success comes from a patientâs attitude about their disease, and 25 percent is the direct physician care and treatment. âWe donât do all that much,â she said. âWhen you come to me and not give your 75 percent, and expect your 25 to be all it takes to make you better, itâs not gonna work. You have to do your 75. You have to know youâre gonna be OK; you have to believe in yourself.â
LPE also is very important by bringing people impacted by cancer together to create things, through free creative sessions.

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro
âItâs feeling that I am not alone,â Mallik said. âThis is not an unusual place to be; Iâm not fighting this alone. I think for caretakers and survivors, itâs even more important. Caretakers are unfortunately the most ignored group. They are ones who sometimes suffer even more than the patient.â
âCaretakers are being responsible for this person in all ways. They may be crying inside, but they canât cry outside,â she said. âThey may know more about your dementia than you do, but they have to encourage you to make more brain connections.â LPE has been hugely supportive to that group as well, Mallik said. She hopes to actually host Flourish at Food Affair next year.
âWeâve been doing this for 11 years, but during the pandemic, people realized how much they needed the arts to relax, and to reduce stress,â she said. âSpecifically to cancer, there are so many studies out there that show a direct correlation between using the arts and reducing stress. We all know how much stress impacts our health. Thatâs why we offer such a wide variety of art mediums. Flourish is the only fundraiser that we host. Everything we want to do, we want to make free for people, because cancer is so expensive. Thatâs why everyoneâs support and gifts make such a big difference.â
Creating art to uplift others
Take one look at one of Laura Weinbergâs exuberant explosions of color, and just try not to feel pure joy and release. Thatâs her goal.
âI see a blank canvas as a field of all possibilities, and am filled with excitement and enthusiasm to witness the journey of the creative

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro
impulse,â the friendly 69-year-old says in her artist statement on lauraweinberg.com. âMy heart is filled with the wonder and joy of life as I see the painting evolve moment to moment. Colorful, bright, happy, creative, energetic, fun, expressive are some of the words that have been used to describe my abstract style. I offer my gifts with a full and grateful heart to the community and the world. I continue to create and share my works with the hope of inspiring and uplifting others.â
Weinberg is a wife, mother, office manager, Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, poet, songwriter, and writer of inspirational messages for the world. All the while, she continues to create art in various forms with the hope of uplifting others.
After earning her degree in elementary education, she moved to Toledo, Ohio where she took classes at the Toledo Museum of Art. And when living in Chicago, she took neighborhood art classes, all the time exploring different media, like drawing, watercolor, oil, tissue paper collage, acrylic, and mixed media. When she, along with her husband and two children, moved to Fairfield in 1988 (because of its transcendental meditation community), she continued to experiment with different media while creating many art pieces.
After Weinberg was diagnosed with and treated for cancer in her 50s, she re-evaluated her life and decided to once again take local art classes and share her creative talents with the world. Her teacher encouraged her to continue to explore and express her inner creativity and hosted her first exhibit in 2010. Weinberg has exhibited many, many places throughout the Midwest, including with LPE since 2014. Surviving cancer gave her a new lease on life.

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro
âWith the whole thing from radiation and surgery. I have lymphedema in my arm and so I wear a compression sleeve all the time and during night time sleep, but that’s a small price to pay,â Weinberg said. âI’m still here and I’m still kicking, you know. After treatment, I thought, well I’ve been given a second chance at life. What do I want to do? And I thought of all the things that I enjoyed, which is art and writing and things. I said, all I want to do is inspire and uplift other people.â
She has self-published her own books and songs, and teaches laughter yoga, meditation and stress reduction. She also became a minister and founded a non-denominational spiritual center in Fairfield. Meditation and deep breathing really helped Weinberg in her cancer recovery.
âI don’t know if I could have made it through without that; it really helps bring me back to my center,â she said. âIt helps me find that place within me that’s home. You know our true home deep inside, so that I could cope with everything and the traveling back and forth with the treatments and all of that, it gave me a chance to really relax deep inside and let go and face the next day.â

Art by Laura Goldman Weinberg at Food Affair Bistro
Laughter really is âthe best medicineâ because âit boosts the immune system, it’s a great cardio workout,â Weinberg said. She canât say enough good things about LPE.
âItâs just totally amazing how they reach out to the patients and the caregivers and the services that they offer,â Weinberg said. âAnd they encourage people to express their creativity, which is what I do too.â
âIâm not a real representational kind of artist. I just expressed from my spirit and I that’s what I think Living Proof offers people — that opportunity to just express their creativity, which is really the closest part of us to our spirit, isn’t it?â she said.
âIt’s our own voice. However, we want to express that right courage, and offer a place for that and so that people are comfortable to do that and it’s beautiful, just so beautiful, because the cancer journeys are really challenging and so anything you can do to help people is needed. In fact, I actually do some of my laughter sessions for Cancer Treatment Centers of America.â
Weinberg is thrilled to have several of her paintings up at Food Affair Bistro.
âI hope that it’s inspired people. So if they’re enjoying the view when they’re eating their meal, that’s good to know,â she said. While sheâs never had art displayed in a private business, one of her friends has some of her art at a local Fairfield radio station.
Making food thatâs a work of art
The interior design and actual dishes at Food Affair Bistro definitely have an artistic flair all their own.
âWe always wanted to have a restaurant,â Dr. Mallik (whoâs lived with her husband and two sons in Bettendorf since 2012) said. âI always did, for the past six years. We have been familiar with Aman, the chef, since about 2006-7. We had visited Bettendorf then, because of a

The exterior of Food Affair Bistro, which opened in December 2020 at Bettendorf’s Utica Ridge Road and Spruce Hills Drive.
friend or two who was here.â
Aman Razdan was a chef at the former Red Crow Grille, which became Hemispheres Bistro, 2504 53rd Ave., Bettendorf.
âWe stayed in constant contact with him, and then about four years ago, we thought we should open a really cute little Indian restaurant,â she said, noting it didnât work out, which sheâs happy about. Razdan still owns Hemispheres and splits his time between the two.
âThe intention was to be a community space,â Mallik said, noting they have a large banquet room (with seating up to 100) and separate smaller room (for 10-12) for meetings and private events, also with beautiful, tasteful art.
They wanted to have Food Affair to be in a very visible location, and be spacious, open and modern. Though they chose to move there in February 2020, the pandemic last year didnât discourage the partners from opening, Mallik said. The building developer, Steve Geifman, also is a personal friend, and the restaurant was completed last October (serving breakfast and lunch, open until 2 p.m.)
âHow do you stop? Why do you stop? I want to do this,â she said of the impact of Covid, adding they

A painting by Kent Broadbent at Food Affair Bistro.
reduced capacity, distanced customers inside, sold a lot of takeout, and installed Plexiglas dividers between booths. âYou canât stop your life. You have to keep on going; you canât stop.â
They first opened for a big private event last December, for a breast-cancer program from Genesis, Mallik said, and the public came in starting in January. The building is 6,000 square feet, including the separate rooms, and much of the dĂŠcor has an orange theme, similar to the restaurantâs signature sweet potato fries.
âThe first four months, we were busier than we ever thought we were gonna be,â the co-owner said. âI think there was an excitement on the publicâs part, and I think we are still riding the same wave. We have very good food, good ambience and all that. I think it has been good that people want to have successful businesses. Thatâs what I like about this town. Weâve been lucky. I think more of that is chefâs reputation â being a good chef and being a good guy.â
Chef Razdan is a 2018 Iowa Restaurant Association Dream Award Winner.
âWhat he makes out of food, itâs not ordinary food anymore,â Mallik said. âIâm being truthful â with or without his involvement with me. He doesnât think of food as food â he thinks of it as art. He plays with it. He plays with your taste and palette, and you donât even know itâs being tested on you.â
What will be part of Flourish?
For the second straight year, due to Covid, the Flourish fundraiser will be held virtually, and will be free to view online at livingproofexhibit.org, on Aug. 19 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The silent auction will actually begin online at 6 p.m. Aug. 17 and run through 6 p.m. Aug. 21. Of the 41 auction items, about a half-dozen artworks by cancer survivors have been donated, Crouch said. Those include

Artist and cancer survivor Kent Broadbent, Annawan.
Weinberg, Kent Broadbent of Annawan, Gina Kirschbaum of Bettendorf, and Carrol Brandt of Davenport.
âWhatâs great is, you get notifications once you register, if you got outbid on something,â Crouch said. âYou have some items you can choose to âbuy it now.â If you want the beautiful lotus bird bath from Isabel Bloom, you can just click âbuy it nowâ and itâs yours. You donât have to outbid anybody. Thereâs a set price for it.â
About half the total items have that âbuy it nowâ option, she said.
âThis pandemic has shown us, itâs caused people so much stress and when youâre dealing with cancer and your family is dealing with cancer of a loved one, thereâs been so much loss,â Crouch said. âWhatâs wonderful in a way about what has happened with this pandemic and how we had to adapt is that we have a YouTube channel, and every time we have a creative session, it goes up on the YouTube channel and people can watch it later or participate later if they want to. People turn to the arts.â
One auction that wonât be ready until the end of the night on the 19th is a new painting, that local artist will be doing that night, as part of the presentation. You can watch him work, and that will go out on the auction at the end of the night. The artist has done it one prior time at the

WQAD-TV anchor Denise Hnytka will host Flourish.
Putnam Museum. âHe finished it that night, we auctioned it off and it was phenomenal,â Crouch said. âWeâre really excited about that. Heâs just a beautiful painter.â
His wife is Nisha Ladlee, who is vice president of development at the Putnam. Flourish will be hosted by WQADâs Denise Hnytka, who has hosted live before and last year did the garden walk video for LPE. âThis year, weâre going to have four videos of people explaining their connection to Living Proof Exhibit.â
They will have the garden walk video at the Quad City Botanical Center in Rock Island, led by Terri Reinartz, a cancer survivor and LPE board member. âTerri brings an understanding of what itâs like to be a cancer survivor; what itâs like to be in a creative session and she knows almost all the artists. We have 10 artists showing their work in the garden walk video this year.â
âItâs going to be nurturing and beautiful. Thereâs always going to be art. You want people to just relax and enjoy their meal,â Crouch said. âWe really look forward to getting together again next year. But our creative sessions are hybrid â so weâve been doing those in-person and also video. A lot of our people who participate are just not ready yet to get together in person, so being able to have them in video I think is the best of both worlds.â
Having Flourish virtually also allows them to incorporate many video features they wouldnât necessarily be able to do as well in person, and since many cancer patients and survivors are immunocompromised, it makes sense for them to not be out in groups, she said.
âThe auction is perfectly placed; itâs held in August, so people can get their Christmas shopping done early,â Crouch said. âItâs because you can. If you want to get tickets to the Symphony, youâre supporting our friends at the Symphony; youâre supporting our friends at the Figge. Plus, there will be more artists who are cancer survivors in the auction.â
More upcoming activities
LPE is opening its next cancer survivor art exhibit in Dubuque on Aug. 16, at the University of Dubuque (they were last there in 2019). It will be at the Charles and Elizabeth Bisignano Gallery at the University of Dubuque through Sept. 28.
Jordan Kirkbride, program manager for LPE, said the art gallery is in the Universityâs Heritage Center. There will be an opening reception

Artist and cancer survivor Laura Weinberg of Fairfield, Iowa.
Sept. 1 with artists and the general public. There are 25 artists who are exhibiting about 50 pieces, from a 200-mile radius of the Quad-Cities â including Chicago, Springfield, Dubuque and Newton, Iowa. The art media includes metalworking, photography, ceramics, quilted pieces, oil and watercolor paintings.
âSome of our artists are professional artists, while others use art as stress-relieving hobby,â according to livingproofexhibit.org. âBut, no matter their background, our artists bring hope to our community and display the creative spirit of the cancer survivor through their artwork.â If you are a cancer survivor and looking to display your artwork, please contact livingproofexhibit@gmail.com to learn more about participating in the LPE 2022 exhibition at the Figge Art Museum.
âOne of the wonderful things is that all the freshmen will be going to those galleries,â Crouch said of the University of Dubuque. Plus, the school has a very strong nursing program and physician assistant program, âso weâre going to get more of a health connection than weâve ever done before,â she said.
âAnother nice thing about the art gallery is, theyâre working hard to make sure all their exhibitions are virtual, too,â Kirkbride said. âTheyâre posting videos, so people who live in Fairfield, Iowa, who canât necessarily make it up to the exhibition, theyâll be able to see their artwork on

Crouch of Moline has gone through several bouts of cancer.
the wall, which is nice.â
On LPEâs virtual section of the website, you can take a virtual tour of art created by cancer survivors, listen to music performed by a Living Proof Exhibit board member, watch one of our Creative sessions and learn a new art medium, or learn how to use Haiku to reduce stress on the Living Proof Exhibit YouTube Channel.Â
LPE grant support comes from Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Cancer Consortium, Regional Development Authority (RDA), Moline Foundation, MidWest Hope and Healing, Scott County Regional Authority (SCRA), Humanities Iowa, Quad City Arts, and Knouse Trust. Flourish sponsors are UnityPoint Health Trinity, Royal Neighbors of America, Jan Masamoto, IH MIssissippi Valley Credit Union, Zimmerman Honda, WQAD, dPhilms, and Quad City Botanical Center.
LPE is targeting greater outreach to more diverse communities in the area, including more men, more types of cancers, Latinx and African-Americans.
âEvery person and every community deals with a cancer diagnosis in a different way. Our mission is to use the arts to help reduce the stress of a cancer diagnosis and we continue to evolve to meet the needs of Quad Citizens impacted by cancer,â Crouch said. âWe have had a six-year partnership with Azubuike African American Council for the Arts, primarily reaching African-American breast cancer survivors. We are expanding this outreach to include more men, other cancers, and people touched by cancer.
âOur 2020 outreach to the Latinx community in Muscatine was paused, but is back on track. We have bi-lingual multicultural journals that feature cover art created by a cancer survivor,â she said. âWe will have three versions of these journals — one with art from a Black cancer

Pamela Crouch is executive director of Living Proof Exhibit.
survivor, one with art from a Latinx cancer survivor, and one with art from a male cancer survivor. We have always held a very inclusive idea of what art is, and are continuing to do so by hiring artists from a varied background as well as Spanish-speaking artists. It’s important to take our mission into these communities and to have instructors from those communities.â
New available journals will be bilingual, with quotes from cancer survivors, and blank pages for art journaling or writing. The pages can lay flat on a table. For Flourish, there are 41 auction items, and hereâs a description of some of them:
Coffee Chaos basket
donated by Gwen Tombergs, Jayne Behal, Starbucks
value: $200
minimum bid: $80
Buy It Now! price: $300
1 bottle of Kahlua
1 bottle of Baileyâs Irish cream
4 cans of Guinness nitro cold brewed coffee
2 cans of International Delight Oreo iced coffee
1 can of Bang Heavenly Hazelnut keto coffee
1 can of Bang Mocha Madness keto coffee
1 bottle of Dunkinâ mocha iced coffee
1 bottle of Dunkinâ Girl Scout Thin Mints iced coffee
1 bottle of Torani salted caramel syrup
1 bottle of Torani vanilla syrup
1 package of Starbucks instant sweetened iced coffee
Bag of whole bean Starbucks Reserve Brazil coffee
Glass tumbler from Starbucks
Ceramic coffee mug from Starbucks
2 stoneware coffee mugs
Reusable straw and brush set from Starbucks
Dish towel
Plaque
Aspiring Artist basket
donated by Marie Ziegler
value: $80
minimum bid: $30
Easel
Watercolor set
Sketchbook
Scribble book
Art pad
Poster sheets
16 x 20 canvas
12 x 16 canvas
9 x 12 canvas
12 x 12 canvas
Clubhouse membership and 4 foursomes of golf
donated by Oakwood Country Club
value: $1,500
minimum bid: $600
Cheers to Beer basket
donated by Terry VanWinkle
value: $65
minimum bid: $25
30-can soft cooler
6-pack of Murderhorn Belgian Strong Golden Ale (Backpocket Brewing Company)
4-pack of Juice Factory American Pale Ale (Reunion Brewery)
4-pack of Pounder Indian Pale Ale (Reunion Brewery)
4-pack of Electric Banshee American Stout (Reunion Brewery)
2 16-oz beer mugs
Pretzels
Peanuts
 Lily Pad with Water Lily
donated by Isabel Bloom
value: $110
minimum bid: $40
Buy It Now! price: $165
Blue Sky Vibes pendant
donated by Inspiredesign Jewelry
value: $400
minimum bid: $160
This sterling silver pendant slide features a checkerboard cut Swiss blue topaz accented with an oval sky blue topaz, and hangs on a sterling silver round omega chain.
Embracing Love basket
donated by Family of Marlene Gaston
value: $75
minimum bid: $30
Isabel Bloom âOtter and Babyâ (retired)
Blue art glass pendant
Mr. Hoople
donated by John VandeWalle
value: $150
minimum bid: $60
Buy It Now! price: $225
3 ft x 3 ft metal sculpture
Upcoming creative sessions (all hybrid, in person and through Zoom) will be:
Air Dry Clay
Tuesday, Aug. 10
6 pm – 8 pm
Gilda’s Moline Clubhouse – in partnership with Gilda’s Club
Instructor: Brian Allen
âArt Journaling
Thursday, Aug. 12
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Muscatine Art Center
Instructor: Latoya Lewis
âScratchboard Creations
Thursday, Sept. 9
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Muscatine Art Center
Instructor: Megan Bishop
 Finger Painting
Tuesday, Sept. 14
6 pm – 8 pm
Quad City Botanical Center
Instructor: Amy Nielsen
âThe takeout menu for Flourish from (available for $35) Food Affair Bistro will be:
Soup
Cauliflower bisque, garnished with roasted cauliflower (VG, Veg, GF)
Salad
Caesar, Roma crunch, croutons, Parmesan Reggiano (Veg)
Main
(Choose one main; includes two sides)
Pan roasted pork tenderloin, apple cider glaze
SautĂŠ chicken marsala
Charbroiled Atlantic salmon
Channa masala (chickpea, roasted tomato and herb ragout) (Veg)
Sides
Smoked paprika roasted new potatoes
Buttered French beans
Dessert
Double chocolate fudge brownie
Make your reservation by August 11 to reserve your meal, at www.livingproofexhibit.org/flourish.