Welcome to Les Dames d’Escoffier CHARLESTON
Providing Opportunities for Women
in Culinary and Hospitality Industries
Welcome to Les Dames d’Escoffier CHARLESTON
Providing Opportunities for Women
in Culinary and Hospitality Industries
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Our Board of Directors
Angie Colyer DuPree, President
Ashley Strickland Freeman, Secretary
Helen Mitternight, Vice President
Angie is the Director of Training at One80 Place and has been with the organization since 2012. One80 is the largest provider of homeless services in the state of South Carolina. Angie and her team run the Zucker Community Kitchen, the robust food rescue program, and the successful culinary job training program. The Zucker Community kitchen serves over 500 meals a day from the food they rescue each week that would otherwise go to waste. The One80 Place 5-week culinary job training programs primary goal is to teach and educate the guests at One80 Place in culinary basics for them to get jobs in the food industry. Angie’s mission is to take food that is wasted by society and people that are undervalued and turn them into success stories every day.
Helen Mitternight, Vice President
Ashley Strickland Freeman, Secretary
Helen Mitternight, Vice President
Helen Mitternight is a former AP reporter and current freelancer living in downtown Charleston. She grew up eating food prepared by a country Southern grandma on her dad’s side and a Sicilian grandmother on her mother’s, and her best memories involve food. Helen’s byline has been in Charleston's Post and Courier, Local Palate, Edible Charleston, and HealthLinks Magazine, among others. She has two monthly columns for Skirt Charleston -- one on food and one on nonprofits. She’s a blogger: her lifestyle blog is, "Stilettos Not Required," and she’s the relationship/sex blogger for Charleston Magazine's Grit, "What's Love Got to Do With It?". And she’s a podcaster. Her 30-minute weekly interview podcast for over-50s is called "Keep it Juicy!" and her love of food has led her to start a column and a podcast called, "Hidden F&B," celebrating the hidden heroes in the food and beverage scene.
Ashley Strickland Freeman, Secretary
Ashley Strickland Freeman, Secretary
Ashley Strickland Freeman, Secretary
Ashley Strickland Freeman is an award-winning food stylist, author, recipe developer, and editor. She has developed both editorial and advertising content for more than 45 publications with such brands as Southern Living, Coastal Living, Cooking Light, Health, Lodge Cast-Iron, Mars, Wonder Bread, and Sonny’s BBQ to name a few, and she most recently was the food stylist for Delicious Miss Brown on Food Network. Her third cookbook, The Duke’s Mayonnaise Cookbook, was published on June 30, 2020.
Amanee Neirouz, Treasurer
Carly Paume, Past President
Ashley Strickland Freeman, Secretary
Operations Manager, Ms. Rose’s Fine Food + Cocktails. It takes humble persistence and an inspired stomach to go from a rural town outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, to an executive chef in culinary hotspot Charleston, S.C. But that’s the story of Amanee Neirouz. She came to Charleston in 2005 and was a butcher at the Sanctuary on Kiawah Island before starting at Relish Restaurant group as a part-time pastry chef in 2008. In the near decade that she has been with the group, she has worked her way up the ranks to serve as both an Executive Chef and Executive Pastry Chef for the restaurant group. In her current role for Ms. Rose’s Fine Food and Cocktails, Amanee serves as Operations Manager and oversees catering functions, manages teams, streamlines operations and handles administrative duties. Some of Amanee’s most prized professional moments include traveling to Cortimellia, Italy, to represent America in the 2014 International Hazelnut Festival and having her smoked chocolate parfait named “Best Frozen Dessert” by Food Network Magazine in 2013. She also participates in many charity events, including Chef's Feast, Feed the Need, Chocolate Affair, etc.
Carly Paume, Past President
Carly Paume, Past President
Carly Paume, Past President
Carly owns Christophe Artisan Chocolatier with her husband, Christophe. The couple has two shops, one in Charleston and one in West Ashley. While Christophe does the baking and chocolate making, Carly does all the other myriad tasks that go into keeping a business running.