18 Reasons: Teach A Community To Fish with Chef Joshua McFadden

Join 18 Reasons this fall for a special fundraising dinner featuring Chef Joshua McFadden. Known for his award-winning cookbooks and ingredient-driven approach, McFadden brings a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place to every dish. Gather with neighbors at 18 Reasons for an intimate evening where food and community come together. This annual fundraiser supports our free community programs – Food as Medicine, Nourishing Pregnancy, and Cooking Matters. These programs empower thousands of Bay Area families with the confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.

Your presence helps sustain this vital work and ensures our mission continues to reach more tables, more families, and more communities across the Bay Area and beyond

About Chef Joshua McFadden:

Joshua McFadden is a creative collaborator known for shaping thoughtful, ingredient-driven hospitality experiences. As the founding partner of Submarine Hospitality, he helped bring to life some of Portland’s most beloved restaurants—Ava Gene’s, Tusk, Cicoria, The Woodsman, and Los Burros Supremos—each rooted in a deep respect for seasonality, craft, and place.

Today, Joshua continues to guide new restaurant concepts across the country, offering a blend of culinary vision, operational insight, and design sensibility.

Beyond the kitchen, Joshua is restoring Berney Farm, a 50-acre property in Springdale, Oregon. There, he is cultivating an agricultural and creative refuge where farming, food, and design meet—offering a space for collaboration, education, and celebration.

He is the author of Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, co-written with Martha Holmberg, winner of the 2018 James Beard Award. Their second book, Grains for Every Season, wasnominated for the award in 2022. His third cookbook, a tribute to the art of pasta, will be released in fall 2025.