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What a joy it was to enter a building that was abuzz with lively chatter and decorated with dozens of colorful balloons! Add Merry Antoinettes (all with têtes intact!) and a pair of chef-garbed stilt walkers, and the fun increased in a setting with a tropical twist. Event planner Tessa Martinez and her team from Contessa & Co. returned for the fourth year for NOCHI’s Cooking for a Cause, presented by Hancock Whitney. It unfolded in the NOCHI (New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute) building with a patron party as the social overture, followed by the main event. The lobby featured a custom step and repeat, flanked by the above stilt walkers and featuring the CfaC, NOCHI and Hancock Whitney logos.

The balloon installation, in a bright kaleidoscope of tropical col

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