Who is Fort Bend County’s “top chef?”

Find out in February at the Lamar Educational Award Foundation’s (L.E.A.F.) annual Men Who Cook, presented this year by Andy Sanford, Ryan O’Hara and Diana Alexander of RBC Wealth Management. Men Who Cook will feature the culinary treats of 49 “celebrity” cooks, along with dancing and auctions.

The event will be held February 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Texas Ballroom at Safari Texas Ranch. Jeff Council will be the auctioneer for the evening and the Billie Ledbetter Orchestra will provide the evening’s musical entertainment.

Proceeds from the evening are used to support the creative ideas and classroom projects by Lamar CISD teachers that would otherwise go unfunded. L.E.A.F. also offers scholarship to graduating Lamar CISD students and to paraprofessionals working on their teaching certificates.

In 12 years of existence, L.E.A.F. has invested more than $1.42 million into LCISD schools.

Sponsors supporting L.E.A.F. at the Silver level include Automated Logic-Houston, Bill and Sandra Billingsley, Consolidated Property Advisors, Fluor, Gurecky Manufacturing Service, Lee and Jan Leaman, Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, McGriff, Seibels & Williams of Texas, Nalco, Neil and Carolyn Banfield, NewQuest Properties, PBK Architects, RiverPark West, State Representative John Zerwas M.D., UnitedHealthcare, Universal Corrosion Specialist and Will and Rachel Leaman.

Bronze level sponsors are Amegy Bank of Texas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bass Construction, City-County Benefits Services, Consolidated Home Health, Cross Creek Ranch, DHK Development , Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Chapels and Cemeteries, Drymalla Construction Company, First Southwest Company, Gilbane, IDC Inc., Kathy and Lonnie Meadows/Lamar and Dana Meadows/NewFirst Insurors, Lee Mahlmann, D.D.S., Legacy Ford and Long Meadow Farms. Also, Memorial Hermann – Sugar Land, NewFirst National Bank, Null Lairson, Paul and Janice Knight, Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Motts, Rice & Gardner Consultants/Vanir Construction Management, Ricoh, Safari Texas, SouthWest Water Company, The Hunton Group, Thompson & Horton, Vinson & Elkins, VLK Architects and WCJC/UofH SugarLand.

Tickets for the gala are $60. For more information regarding L.E.A.F. or to purchase tickets, contact Janice Knight at 832.223.0334.