Winning this year’s Culinary Challenge was the team of Grilled By the Hour which included (left to right) Karen Hiyama, Jenni Breitmeyer, Geaneen Arends, Kari Melkonian, Kirsten Silwanowicz, and Tanya Grillo.
The Grilled From the Bench team consisted of (left to right) Macomb County 41B District Court Magistrate James McGrail, Macomb County 38th District Court Judge Kathleen G. Galen, Michael Colasanti, Alexis Brown, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Cunningham, Gloria McMillen, Lewis Magnuson, Jasmyn Hester, Christin Dubarry, Michigan Court of Appeals Judges Kristina Robinson Garrett and Anica Letica, Brianna Hines, Sydney Gebara, Brittney Crego and Kyle Seymour.
(Photos by John Meiu, courtesy of Elizabeth Jolliffe)
Grilling for Good recently returned after two years of the pandemic.
The 13th Annual Bench Bar Culinary Challenge took place last month once again at the Grosse Pointe Park home of Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Kirsten Frank Kelly and her husband Bill. This annual charitable event is one of a kind in metropolitan Detroit featuring a friendly cook-off between teams from the bench and bar.
The lawyers team of Grilled By the Hour won this year’s Challenge with its halibut tacos with chips, salsa and sangria by Collins Einhorn Farrell’s grillers Mike Sullivan, Theresa Asoklis, Scott Pawlak and Kari Melkonian; Greek yogurt lamb bruschetta with pickled peppers by Geaneen Arends, Jenni Breitmeyer and Karen Hiyama; and southwestern chicken, quinoa & margueritas by Kirsten Silwanowicz and Tanya Grillo.
The judges team of Grilled From the Bench prepared smoked ribs and smoked stuffed mushroom caps by Macomb County 38th District Court Judge Kathleen Galen and Macomb County 41B District Court Magistrate James McGrail; family secret recipe chili dogs by Oakland County Circuit Court Judges Jake Cunningham and Yasmine Isshak Poles; and bang bang shrimp by Court of Appeals Judges Anica Letica and Kristina Robinson Garrett.
The event raised more than $28,000 (net) to benefit Alternatives For Girls and the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Foundation’s scholarship fund.
Next year, organizers plan to schedule the Challenge in June.
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