02/28 PAULA SHOYER, BOB CABRAL, KATHERYN WINNICK

PAULA SHOYER  -  PARIS TRAINED PASTRY CHEF & COOKING TEACHER

Passover is one of the most important holidays of the Jewish calendar and is when families get together for the Seder meal.  Passover baking is the greatest annual challenge in the Jewish kitchen because Passover dessert recipes cannot use flour, yeast, soy milk, or even pure vanilla, and shifting from flour to matzoh cake meal and potato starch is not intuitive, even for experienced bakers.   As dessert plays an important part of the Seder meal, you need fabulous desserts to end your evening.  This Passover, pastry chef and teacher, Paula Shoyer, shares delicious and easy desserts for Passover from her best-selling cookbook, The Kosher Baker.   Producing flavorful and appealing desserts that are kosher has been a challenge for Jewish cooks. Without access to butter, cream, milk, cheese, yogurt, or other dairy products, creating a delicious and memorable dessert for holiday meals requires more than simple substitutions and compromises.  Paris-trained pastry chef, Paula Shoyer decided to change that.  Using all her creativity and love of dessert, she developed The Kosher Baker, the indispensable kitchen companion providing a wide range of dairy-free desserts, from family favorites and time-honored holiday classics to stylish and delicious surprises of Paula's own creation.


Bob Cabral - Williams Selyem - Winemaker of the Year 

Bob has been involved in growing and making wine professionally since 1980 and has had an interest in wine and farming since his childhood. A fourth generation farmer and grape grower from the great San Joaquin Valley, he developed a passion for Pinot Noir early, joining the Williams Selyem mailing list in 1985 while still in grad school at Fresno State University. AfterJohn Dyson bought the winery in 1998, Burt Williams recommended that Bob take over as winemaker, which he did on July 29, 1998. The 2011 harvest is Bob's 32nd vintage at a commercial winery. Bob is an experienced winemaker whose meticulousness and patience yield wines that are authentic expressions of each vineyard site. In 2007, one such site found perfect expression and received a 100-point rating from Wine Enthusiast. Our 2007 Litton Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir (now called Williams Selyem Estate Vineyard) was the first domestic Pinot Noir to earn a perfect score from a major wine publication. Bob designed and planted the vineyard to an exact specification of clones, rootstocks, spacing and trellising. This has resulted in wines of the highest quality and worthy of the Williams Selyem Estate name. Each year, the editors of Wine Enthusiast Magazine honor outstanding achievement in the wine world, in that given year and over time. Categories include Wine Person of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award, American, European, and New World Winery of the Year, Winemaker of the Year, Wine Region of the Year, and more. The winners will be announced in theDecember 15th issue of Wine Enthusiast.


Katheryn Winnick - The History Channel, "VIKINGS"

Katheryn Winnick may be best known for her juicy recurring role as David Borneaz's love interest in the FOX series Bones, and the films Love And Other Drugs, Killers, and Cold Souls. She currently appears in Stand Up Guys with Christopher Walken and will next co-star with Kurt Russell and Matt Dillon in The Black Marks, and as Charlie  Sheen's ex in A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. Winnick is not only a rising star in Hollywood, but an accomplished martial artist as well. She is trained as a licensed bodyguard and holds a third-degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do and second-degree Black Belt in Karate. Her martial arts mastery serves her well as the fierce warrior yet tender mom, Lagertha, in HISTORY®s ambitious new scripted series, Vikings. The extraordinary untold tales of the lives and epic adventures of these conquering mighty Norsemen come alive in the nine-part series, which also stars Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment, Usual Suspects, Millers Crossing). Vikings is created and written by Michael Hirst – one of the premier historical story-tellers in the industry (Academy-Award winning film Elizabeth; and the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated series The Tudors.) The series also sheds light on how much power women wielded in the Dark Ages. They were allowed to own land, divorce their husbands as well as fight alongside them in battle, and ultimately, rule. As much as this epic series looks deep into the Vikings society of warfare and bloodshed, it's a family saga at heart. And Lagertha is a fierce character, warrior, shield maiden and mom.