FOOD
NETWORK SOUTH BEACH WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL
PRESENTED
BY FOOD & WINE
CELEBRATES
10 YEARS!
- 10 Years, 10% Off the Whole Foods Market
Grand Tasting Village – ONE DAY ONLY! -
(Miami,
FL – October 2010) – Food Network South Beach Wine
& Food Festival Founder and Executive Director Lee Brian Schrager is pleased to
announce that the Festival will celebrate its 10th year February 24
– 27, 2011. “We are truly excited for
the 2011 Festival and very thankful to the fans, chefs, winemakers, sponsors,
students, and staff who have supported us since the beginning,” notes Schrager,
who also serves as Vice President of Corporate Communications & National
Events at Southern Wine & Spirits of
America, Inc. which hosts the Festival.
“It has truly been an unforgettable decade and we are so pleased to have
raised $10 million to date for Florida International University. We look forward to bringing the best names in
the wine and culinary industries to South Florida for many years to come!”
In commemoration of the Festival’s 10th year, Schrager
will release the Food Network South Beach Wine &
Food Festival Cookbook (Clarkson Potter, $35/hardcover) on November 16,
2010. The book features a foreword from
none-other than Anthony Bourdain, as well as an array of recipes from the
nation’s favorite celebrity chefs and culinary personalities. In addition, it provides a behind-the-scenes
look at the chefs, events and food that make the Food Network South Beach Wine
& Food Festival the most prestigious gourmet gathering in America. Like the overall Festival, all proceeds from
the cookbook will benefit the Florida International University (FIU) School of
Hospitality and Tourism Management and the Southern Wine & Spirits Beverage
Management Center located on FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus.
The 2011 Festival features returning fan-favorite events,
including the Wine Spectator Wine Seminar series and Whole Foods Market Grand
Tasting Village, and plenty of new soirées to keep the celebration going all
weekend long! For its 10th
year, the Festival is pleased to honor one of the world’s most revered chefs at
its Tribute Dinner honoring Alain
Ducasse presented by Bank of America on Saturday, February 26. A veritable who’s who of the culinary world
will be in attendance to pay homage to Chef Ducasse, a chef who has earned more
Michelin Stars than any of his colleagues.
Planned especially for this year, the dynamic duo of Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart will host the Festival’s featured 10th
anniversary celebration Let Them Eat
Cake presented by Ocean Drive magazine
on Friday, February 25 in the contemporary new space at 1111 Lincoln Road. Here, no fewer than 10 pastry chefs, cake
artists and renowned confectioners, including Margaret Braun, Jacques Torres, and
Food Network’s Duff Goldman, will present decadent delicacies to complement the
cocktails and Moët & Chandon Champagne that will be flowing all night long!
Food Network presents a Saturday night fête that will put a South
Beach spin on their popular primetime series The Best Thing I Ever Ate!
Join Master of Ceremonies Duff Goldman, alongside Anne Burrell, Sunny
Anderson, Chuck Hughes, Scott Conant, Geoffrey Zakarian, and many more Food
Network, Cooking Channel and South Florida personalities at The Best Thing I Ever Ate At the Beach
– where they will share their favorite dishes and cocktails found near
shorelines from all over the United States.
The Festival is honored to welcome back Jamie Oliver to its
family-oriented program Kohl’s Fun and
Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen, which takes place at
Jungle Island the Saturday and Sunday during the Festival. Parents and kids will have the chance to
explore the Children’s Sustainable Food Garden, play sports on the beach,
prepare healthy snacks in the interactive Food Lab, and watch Food Network
favorites, including Giada De Laurentiis, Tyler Florence and Rachael Ray, among
others, host healthy culinary demonstrations in the Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen.
The iconic Amstel Light
Burger Bash presented by Allen Brothers hosted by Rachael Ray will
celebrate its fifth birthday during the Festival – bringing back the best in
beer and burgers, plus the four previously crowned People’s Choice Award
winners (Shake Shack, Michael Schlow, Spike Mendelsohn, and Michael Symon) to
compete with their fellow chefs for bragging rights in 2011. This year’s Perrier-Jouët BubbleQ presented by Allen Brothers and MIAMI magazine – the very event that
put the Festival on the map its first year – will be hosted by the grill-master himself, Bobby Flay, in its final showing as a signature Festival event. Additionally, Fontainebleau Miami Beach presents Wine Spectator’s Best of the
Best sponsored by Bank of America will again feature the finest selections
in wine and culinary creations of renowned chefs, and is sure to be the best
yet with celebrated chef Charlie Trotter in attendance.
Once again, the Festival gathers all that glistens for an
unparalleled series of brunches and dinners to keep your taste buds dancing all
weekend long:
- The
Brilliance of France – dinner prepared by chefs Pascal
Nibaudeau (Le Pressoir d’Argent at The Regent Grand Hotel Bordeaux) and
Jean-Marie Gautier (Le Villa Eugenie at the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz)
- Dolce Brunch
hosted by Gail Simmons and Michael White
- Barilla
Interactive Lunch hosted by Bryan and Michael Voltaggio
- Italian in
Paradise hosted by Giada De Laurentiis
- Barilla
Interactive Dinner hosted by CHOPPED stars Ted Allen with Marc Murphy,
Alex Guarnaschelli and Aarón Sánchez
- Wine + Dine +
Design – the Festival’s ultimate dine around in Miami’s trendy Design
District
- Michael’s
Genuine Food & Drink Brunch at Sea
- Paula Deen’s
Down Home Cookin’ Sunday Gospel Brunch
The complete program for this year, tickets and more information
is available online at www.sobewineandfoodfest.com
or by calling the box office at 877.762.3933.
Get daily updates on the Festival all year long by following Festival
Founder and Executive Director Lee Brian Schrager on Twitter – www.twitter.com/Lee_Schrager.
About the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival
All proceeds of the Festival benefit the students of the Florida
International University School of
Hospitality and Tourism Management who also assist Festival organizers with
sponsorship fulfillment, restaurant and exhibitor recruitment, logistics, and
inventory as well as working alongside some of the world’s greatest celebrity
chefs and winemakers.
The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by
Food &Wine is produced by Florida
International University and Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida with the
support of the Miami Beach Visitors & Convention Authority and the
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. For more information about
the Festival, visit www.sobewineandfoodfest.com
or call 877-762-3933. For more information about Florida International
University visit www.fiu.edu, for the School
of Hospitality and Tourism Management visit www.hospitality.fiu.edu and for more
information about Southern Wine & Spirits visit www.southernwine.com.