Why Kale Juice-Crazed Hordes Are Chasing Alpana Singh

By Anthony Todd in Food on Aug 5, 2015 2:45PM

Restauranteur, former Check, Please host and Master Sommelier Alpana Singh is certainly a lady worth chasing around the city. She's accomplished, popular, knowledgeable and charming.

However, despite these lovely qualities, it's unusual for 100 random strangers to come calling for her in one day—especially when they are demanding that she ingest tons and tons of kale. What the heck happened?

It all started with a tweet from Singh yesterday afternoon:

Turns out that there is a giant global scavenger hunt on, run by Gishwhes, which stands for "The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen." It runs from Aug. 1 through 8, and while we might dispute its status as the "Greatest" (the University of Chicago Scav Hunt still takes that prize), it's pretty big. Thousands of people all over the world have joined in to search for random things.

This year's list, posted by a blogger on Monday, includes a photo with Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton, a game of tic tac toe played by two legitimate three-star generals, and, yes, chasing down Alpana Singh. Or, at least, a master somm.

The full text:

"There are roughly only 150 Sommeliers on the planet who have received the highest distinction a professional can attain in fine wine and are accordingly classified as “Master Sommeliers.” Get a picture of you with a current Master Sommelier sipping pure kale (or cabbage) juice from a wine glass. Caption the image with “NAME OF SOMMELIER, renowned Master Sommelier says the official drink of Gishwhes is..” And then finish the caption with the sommelier’s review of the juice."

Singh is nothing if not a good sport, though, and by the end of the day, she'd caved to the inevitable. Looks like she'll be drinking kale until Saturday—and we hope all those people become customers at Seven Lions!