Culinary With A Cause

Since its inaugural event, the Memphis Food & Wine Festival has donated over $425,000 to local charities. 

Our 2023 festival will support two great causes:

the Mid-South Food Bank
&
Lifedoc Health

Food insecurity is a real issue in our community.  Our board thought it was important to align our celebration of great food with an entity that helps meet the basic food needs of people in our community who need that boost.
— Memphis Food & Wine Chairman David Benson

Mid-South Food Bank currently distributes an average of 4 million meals a month through a network of 300 partner agencies in 12 counties in West Tennessee, 18 counties in north Mississippi, and one county in Arkansas. 

 
 
Mid-South Food Bank is the leading food distributor in our region. We feed the need by distributing millions of pounds monthly to families fighting hunger. Hunger can impact anyone at any time. That’s why we depend on and are grateful for community partners like the Memphis Food and Wine Festival to support our mission of eliminating hunger in the Mid-South.
— Mid-South Food Bank CEO Cathy Pope
 

 

The Lifedoc Family-Centered Medical Home Model is a systematically-designed standard of care for families from childhood to adulthood.

Our goal is to improve patient outcomes, reduce medical expenses from health complications, implement an evidence-based approach to continuously optimize resources in a cost-effective manner, while also integrating research and clinical care.

Lifedoc has seen real results from its holistic, multi-disciplinary approach, focus on improving patients’ risk profiles, and management of chronic disease. Their clinical strategy is highly efficient for their patients, and the staff at Lifedoc is continually working to refine their standard of care.”

—BlueCross BlueShield,
Quality Care Quarterly,
Vol 4, Spring 2018