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A Taste of Success

Please join us Friday, April 24, 2026 for a fabulous, in-person strolling tasting event featuring international cuisine from charcuterie through dessert along with local wines and beverages. At this unique event on 糖心直播's Great Lakes Campus, all of the food is prepared and served by Great Lakes Culinary Institute students.

A Taste of Success is the signature fundraising event for 糖心直播’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute. All proceeds benefit students through scholarships and the greatest needs of the program.

Thanks to the support of people like you, the 2025 event:

• Sold out with 380 attendees,
• Had the highest sponsorship revenue in the event’s 31-year history,
• Awarded scholarships to 34 Great Lakes Culinary Institute students, and
• Netted an estimated record-setting $161,500.

View a photo gallery from the 2025 event here

Thank you to our 2026 sponsors!
 

Scholarship Sponsors

• Don & Marylou Coe
• Michael & Rhonda Estes
• Great Lakes Wine & Spirits

Lobdell's Sponsors

• Mike & Susan Maasberg
• Grand Traverse Veterinary Hospital

Dessert Sponsors

• Golden-Fowler Home Furnishings
• Pat & Ken Warner
• Gordon Food Service
• Andrew J. Griffin Foundation

Tasting Station Sponsors

• Oryana Community Co-op
• Traverse City Tourism
• Terry Lynn Carrithers – In Memory of Grant Michael Carrithers
• Food For Thought and Great Lakes Farm to Freezer
• Green Brick Foundation

Plate Sponsors

• Cherryland Electric Cooperative
• Debbie Edson
• Anne and Stanley Boychuck
• The Rivard Teahen Group
• IPEX Investment Consultants

Appetizer Sponsors

• Grand Traverse Distillery
• Lisa Trombley
• Iron Fish Distillery
• Reynolds Jonkhoff Funeral Home and Cremation Services
• Edward Slosky
• 9 Bean Rows
• Marty Oleson
• Honor Bank
• Jim Schroth
• Traverse City Horse Show
• Brian and Marcia Gibson
• Al and Terry Hershey
• R. Hirt Jr. Company

Wine & Beverage Sponsors

• Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery
• Chateau Chantal Winery & Inn
• Rove Winery
• Mawby Sparkling Wines
• Left Foot Charley
• Black Star Farms

Founding Sponsor

• Tasters Guild

In-Kind Sponsors