Red Wagon Plants
Vermont Celebrates Jacques!
- When
- November 15, 2025
- Where
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Red Wagon Plants
2408 Shelburne Falls Rd
Hinesburg, VT - Tickets/Info
- Sold Out
Even though the summer plant season has ended and the Bake Shop is closed, Red Wagon will fire up the wood stove and open its doors for a special evening in honor of Jacques Pépin.
For this 90/90 event, Red Wagon’s Julie Rubaud and the bake shop’s Amy Vogler (also Educational Projects Manager for the Jacques Pépin Foundation), will set up the kitchen and cook alongside Molly Stevens, Maura O’Sullivan, Cara Tobin and Carey Nershi, preparing a country French-inspired multi-course family-style menu with wine.
Highlights
- Doors open at 5:30 for hors d’oeuvres.
- Guests will be seated shortly after for a welcome toast followed by a family-style dinner around the farm tables. 30 guests maximum.
- The menu will draw inspiration from Jacques’ tremendous body of work, focusing on quality ingredients with simple preparations interpreted by some of the area’s most creative chefs and cooks.
Details
- Comfortable dress
- Tickets are priced per person and includes the family-style menu and wine. Tax is included. Tickets are non-refundable, but transferrable.
- Thanks to the generosity of the participating chefs, cooks, and hosts, all of the evening's proceeds will be donated to the Jacques Pépin Foundation to support our mission of expanding access to culinary education. We deeply appreciate your generous support.
- Jacques Pépin proudly supports our 90/90 Celebrations. While he can't be present at all of them, we invite you to check our website for details on the events where he will joining in celebration.
- For more information, contact Red Wagon Plants
Event Hosts
Julie Rubaud
Owner, Red Wagon Plants
Julie Rubaud owns an organic plant nursery and herb farm in Hinesburg, VT. While not trained as a chef, she is at ease in the kitchen and draws on her rural French heritage for inspiration and guidance.
With a kitchen garden out the door, and a half acre of culinary herbs, the food she makes for staff, friends and family meals at Red Wagon is fresh, flavorful, and simple. Red Wagon Plants’ new herb farm kitchen and gathering space is the perfect spot to join together around big farm tables and celebrate the bounty all around.
Amy Vogler
Educational Projects Manager, Jacques Pépin Foundation
Amy Vogler is the Educational Projects Manager for the Jacques Pépin Foundation. The JPF advances Jacques Pépin’s love of culinary arts and education and supports the teaching of culinary skills through various channels to many communities.
Amy is also a consultant, recipe developer/tester/writer, producer of food programming for public-television, and contributor to other food media outlets. In her “free time” she has baked alongside Carey Nershi at Red Wagon Plants.
Guest Chefs
Molly Stevens
James Beard award-winning author, cooking instructor and recipe developer
Molly Stevens is a James Beard award-winning author, cooking instructor, and recipe developer. Her cookbooks include All About Dinner: Simple Meals, Expert Advice (Norton, 2019), All About Roasting (Norton, 2011), and All About Braising (Norton, 2004).
Her recipes and articles have appeared Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, Fine Cooking, Eating Well, Everyday with Rachel Ray, and other national publications. She has been named Cooking Teacher of the Year by both the International Association of Culinary Professionals and Bon Appétit.
Molly is a co-host of the Everything Cookbooks podcast. She makes her home in Vermont, and she can’t remember the last time she skipped dinner. Find out more about her at MollyStevensCooks.com
Maura O’Sullivan
Maura O’Sullivan has been cooking professionally in Vermont for over 30 years. She has run kitchens in owner-operated restaurants that serve locally grown and sourced food to the Burlington area. She caters private events and finds great joy in collaborating with industry friends, especially for community good.
Cara Tobin
Chef and co-owner, Honey Road Restaurant and The Grey Jay
Cara Tobin is the chef and co-owner of Honey Road Restaurant and The Grey Jay, both located in Burlington, VT. Her culinary career spans over two decades, and her passion for Middle Eastern flavors and hospitality have taken her to Turkey, Morocco, and Lebanon, where she worked with local women (home cooks) to learn their traditions. Her knowledge and desire to introduce people to these flavors and ingredient focused foods comes through in both her restaurants, the way she talks about food and hospitality, and in her teachings.
Cara started working at the James Beard Award-winning restaurant Oleana in Cambridge, MA, and was Chef De Cuisine from 2012 to 2016. In 2015 she was awarded the Rising Star Chef award by Star Chefs. With the opening of Honey Road, Cara was a James Beard semifinalist for Best New Restaurant in 2017 and she was a James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef Northeast in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2024. She has written recipes for Food & Wine Magazine, Eating Well, and AAA Northeast, as well as being mentioned in Bon Appétit, Vermont Life and Eater.
Cara teaches in Boston University’s Culinary Program as well as cooking classes in both Massachusetts and Vermont. She is the President of the Board of the Vermont Fresh Network, a non-profit whose mission is to forge the connection between farmers, producers and chefs; she also sits on the advisory board for the Vermont Independent Restaurant Coalition. She also holds a position on Senator Peter Welch’s Business Advisory Committee and is a small business advocate for Let’s Grow Kids, a non-profit fighting for quality, affordable childcare in Vermont.
Cara is also a mother of two boys, Hank and Gus, and wife to her partner, Willie. With Willie, she runs a small mushroom farm out of their home, Sunday Morning Mushroom Co.
Collaborators
Carey Nershi
Photographer, stylist and food enthusiast
Carey Nershi is a photographer, stylist, and food enthusiast living in Vermont. She was born and raised in rural upstate New York, and is happy to have found a new home state she loves as much as her old one. Her love of photography has been a happy side effect of starting a food blog many years ago, and the two are now very much intertwined for her.
She currently resides in Burlington, where she splits her time between freelance typesetting and photography and styling. She has worked as a food/prop stylist, photographer, recipe developer, and brand collaborator for clients such as Vermont Creamery, EatingWell Magazine, Stonecutter Spirits, and Food52, among others.