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Joel Fisher - "Wine Guru" - lists Wine Events Nationwide
The wine columnist for the Culinary Connection of the Chefs de Cuisine Association of California. He was a Contributing Editor of Patterson's Beverage Journal. From 1999 to 2006 he was a wine instructor for the Culinary Arts Department of the Art Institute of California-Los Angeles and is a founding partner of the educational Wine Vine and Dine, which conducts programs throughout Southern California.
Willi Klinger - Austrian Wine Marketing Board
Head of the Austrian Wine Marketing Board (OEWM) is the highlight of a stellar wine career. A son of of Northern Austrian restaurateurs, he studied French and Italian in school and entered the wine business with a position with renowned wine distributor AV Stangl in Salzburg. Later, he played a significant role in the development of the Austrian wine distributor Chainloader Wine & Co, before moving to become the executive manager of Freie Weingärtner Wachau. After building their market on an international level, in 2000, Willi was chosen to serve as the right-hand for the Italian cult vintner Angelo Gaja, where he was responsible for more than 50 export markets. Klinger took the reins at the OEWM in January of 2007 and uses his experience in guiding the Austrian wine industry. Willi Klinger is married, has two children and lives in Vienna.
Lilia Rodriguez - Albertsons online shopping expert
Albertsons.com is a full service, online grocery store that offers more than 25,000 items including a full selection of fresh items from the butcher block, produce and bakery. Order selectors are trained to choose the best cuts of meat and the freshest produce items. Albertsons.com is designed to help consumers save time and money. The Fresh Ideas section on the website is updated monthly and features recipes and tasty seasonal items. All Recipes.com provides thousands of recipes. Albertsons.com also features online Meal Deals where customers purchase the three to six participating items and instantly save $3-6 with their online purchase. These items are designed to create a quick and easy dinner for a family of four.
Michael Chiarello - Celebrity Chef "Bottega"
Born in 1962 and raised in the central California community of Turlock, Michael followed his childhood dream of becoming a world-class chef. He began apprenticing in restaurants at age 14 and graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, in 1982. He began his professional career in Miami by opening the acclaimed restaurant, Toby's. Flush with the success of his first restaurant, in 1986 he moved back to his roots in Napa Valley and opened the Tra Vigne (among the vines) Restaurant, where he acted as Executive Chef/partner for it and seven other restaurants until creating NapaStyle in 2000. With NapaStyle, Michael has created a multi-channel lifestyle retailer inspired by his Southern Italian heritage, the Napa Valley style of life, and a passion for seasonal and sustainable living. The NapaStyle line is available online, by catalog and at select gourmet specialty shops around the country. In September 2006, Michael opened the first and flagship NapaStyle retail store in Berkeley, California's upscale and eclectic Fourth Street shopping district. During his 20-year tenure as Executive Chef of Tra Vigne and seven other restaurants, Michael was twice named Chef of the Year: in 1985 by Food and Wine Magazine while at Toby's in Miami; and in 1995 by the Culinary Institute of America.
Bravo’s Top Chef New York winner Hosea Rosenberg
Bravo’s newest Top Chef winner Chef Hosea Rosenberg is a long-time Colorado resident and he loves Colorado’s fresh, local foods - -especially lamb that is deemed the best in the US. Chef Hosea will be offering dishes using Colorado lamb and locally-sourced produce. Hosea Rosenberg is the executive chef of Jax Fish House, which has consistently won “Best” awards for serving up the finest and freshest seafood dishes in the Boulder and Denver areas.
Bravo’s Top Chef New York Winner Hosea Rosenberg andColorado’s “Slow Food” Pioneer Mark Fischer Guest Chefs at Bloomingdale’s in Century City, Thursday, April 29
Chef Donald Link - "Real Cajun: Rustic Home Cooking from Donald Link's Louisiana "
DONALD LINK is the chef-owner of Herbsaint and Cochon in New Orleans. He won the James Beard Best Chef South Region Award in 2007. An untamed region teeming with snakes, alligators, and snapping turtles, with sausage and cracklins sold at every gas station, Cajun Country is a world unto itself. The heart of this area—the Acadiana region of Louisiana—is a tough land that funnels its spirit into the local cuisine. You can’t find more delicious, rustic, and satisfying country cooking than the dirty rice, spicy sausage, and fresh crawfish that this area is known for. It takes a homegrown guide to show us around the back roads of this particularly unique region, and in Real Cajun, James Beard Award–winning chef Donald Link shares his own rough-and-tumble stories of living, cooking, and eating in Cajun Country.