New Orleans knows how to turn up the heat. Join us for Hot Dame!, an evening that starts with a cocktail and ends with a bottle of hot sauce you made with your own two hands.
Dame Haera Shin will share her story and show us how to build the welcome cocktail featuring Louisiana Pepper Exchange’s green jalapeño puree. She’ll talk about her new cocktail book, Korean Cocktails, and sign copies before the main event: a Make- Your-Own Hot Sauce adventure led by the Louisiana Pepper Exchange team. Pick your peppers, build your blend and take your creation home!
📍 Louisiana Pepper Exchange
725 Howard Avenue • New Orleans
🗓️ Wednesday, November 18, 2026
⏰ 6 PM - 8 PM
🎟️ $45 per person
This program is open to Dames + Friends
🍽️ Welcome cocktail and hot sauce included
Dame Haera Shin
Haera Shin is a New Orleans Dame and the author of Korean Cocktails: From Traditional Spirits to Modern Drinks. She spent the past seven years as beverage director for the Momofuku restaurant group and, before that, was bar manager at Zuma, an acclaimed high-end Japanese izakaya in New York City. Now based in New Orleans, she oversees the bar program at The Columns and is preparing to open her first bar next year.
Louisiana Pepper Exchange
Founded in 2010 by Chris White, Louisiana Pepper Exchange is a New Orleans pepper company that works directly with small farmers to bring in more than 20 varieties of peppers. It turns them into mash, purees, and powders for chefs, bartenders, and food makers. Traceable from farm to kitchen, its peppers show up in everything from restaurant hot sauces to national brands, and its purees are now available to home cooks, too.
Ticket proceeds directly support the programs, grants, and community initiatives of Les Dames d’Escoffier New Orleans, including our Leading from the Heart Awards.
New Orleans knows how to turn up the heat. Join us for Hot Dame!, an evening that starts with a cocktail and ends with a bottle of hot sauce you made with your own two hands.
Dame Haera Shin will share her story and show us how to build the welcome cocktail featuring Louisiana Pepper Exchange’s green jalapeño puree. She’ll talk about her new cocktail book, Korean Cocktails, and sign copies before the main event: a Make- Your-Own Hot Sauce adventure led by the Louisiana Pepper Exchange team. Pick your peppers, build your blend and take your creation home!
📍 Louisiana Pepper Exchange
725 Howard Avenue • New Orleans
🗓️ Wednesday, November 18, 2026
⏰ 6 PM - 8 PM
🎟️ $45 per person
This program is open to Dames + Friends
🍽️ Welcome cocktail and hot sauce included
Dame Haera Shin
Haera Shin is a New Orleans Dame and the author of Korean Cocktails: From Traditional Spirits to Modern Drinks. She spent the past seven years as beverage director for the Momofuku restaurant group and, before that, was bar manager at Zuma, an acclaimed high-end Japanese izakaya in New York City. Now based in New Orleans, she oversees the bar program at The Columns and is preparing to open her first bar next year.
Louisiana Pepper Exchange
Founded in 2010 by Chris White, Louisiana Pepper Exchange is a New Orleans pepper company that works directly with small farmers to bring in more than 20 varieties of peppers. It turns them into mash, purees, and powders for chefs, bartenders, and food makers. Traceable from farm to kitchen, its peppers show up in everything from restaurant hot sauces to national brands, and its purees are now available to home cooks, too.
Ticket proceeds directly support the programs, grants, and community initiatives of Les Dames d’Escoffier New Orleans, including our Leading from the Heart Awards.
