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28th
Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen
Mario
Batali Presents His Favorite Ligurian Dishes, In the
Kitchen with Top Chef's Tom Colicchio & Food & Wine's
Gail Simmons, At Home with Giada Laurentiis, and Much
More at the 28th Annual Food & Wine Classic in Aspen on
June 18 - 20, 2010
The Grand Tasting Pavilion
Tickets Still Available At Discounted Rate
New York, NY/Aspen, CO (March 1, 2010) – Missed your
chance to attend the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in
February? Don’t worry; tickets are still available for
the 28th annual FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen on June
18-20, 2010. The event’s outstanding schedule was
announced and will feature demonstrations and seminars
with culinary masters such as Jacques Pepin, David
Chang, Giada DeLaurentiis, Michael Symon, and Thomas
Keller. Top Chef fanatics will not want to miss their
favorite judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons cook
delicious meals, as well as a special Classic Quickfire
with Top Chef season 6 winner Michael Voltaggio
competing against Top Chef Masters season 1 winner Rick
Bayless.
First-timers Tim Love, Art Smith, and Paul Greico have
been added to the exclusive list and several new
programs will also debut this year. American Express
Trade program will host trade-only power lunches with
David Chang, Morimoto, among other greats. The Grand
Cochon event, featuring ten chefs who will create their
best pork dishes at the Hotel Jerome, will close the
FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen.
Giada DeLaurentiis on the red carpet
at the Welcome Reception
Headliners for this year’s event include:
• Mario Batali
• Giada DeLaurentiis
• Jacques Pepin
• Thomas Keller
• Morimoto
• David Chang
• Art Smith
• Michael Symon
Tickets for the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen are $1,085
before March 15, 2010 and $1,185 thereafter. FOOD & WINE
will donate 2% of the proceeds from every Classic ticket
to Grow for Good, benefiting Wholesome Wave Foundation.
Grow for Good is FOOD & WINE’s national initiative
dedicated to supporting local farms and encouraging
sustainable agriculture. To register, call 877-900-WINE
or visit www.foodandwine.com/classic.
In its 28th year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen is
the epicurean magazine’s signature event, bringing
together 50 of the world’s foremost authorities on wine
and food at 95 sold-out cooking demonstrations and wine
seminars. In addition, over 300 wines and luxury
lifestyle brands gather together in the Grand Tasting
Pavilion, the epicenter of the event, to pour over
50,000 bottles of wine and exhibit their newest
products. Food & Wine is the modern, stylish,
trend-spotting, talent-seeking epicurean magazine.
Published by American Express Publishing Corporation,
the leader in luxury lifestyle magazines, Food & Wine
has a circulation of over 925,000. Details about the
event and the company are at foodandwine.com/classic.
Participating Aspen
lodges include the following:
Inn at Aspen - buy three nights, get four
Frias Properties – buy three nights, get four and buy
four nights, get five, depending on units
Chateau Blanc – buy three nights, get four
The Gant – 25 percent discount
McCartney Properties
– buy four nights, get five
Hotel Aspen – buy four nights, get five
Aspen Alps - buy four nights, get five
Aspen Square Condominium Hotel – buy four nights, get
five
The nation’s premier culinary festival and a perennially
sold-out event, the FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen
features a stellar 2010 line-up with culinary masters
including Mario Batali, David Chang, Giada De Laurentiis,
Thomas Keller, and Jacques Pépin. Vinophiles and foodies
alike can take advantage of seminars serving up this
year’s hottest trends in gastronomy. A few highlights
from this year’s lineup include “In the Kitchen” with
Top Chef’s Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio, David Lynch’s
“I Like American Chardonnay and I’m Not Afraid to Say
It!”, Tony Abou-Ganim teaches how to make your own
signature cocktails, FOOD & WINE’s Ray Isle is back with
Burger Bonanza wines: The Sequel, and Paul Grieco
presents “Wines from the Edge”, a tour of
off-the-beaten-path wines.
For more information about the FOOD & WINE Classic in
Aspen, visit www.foodandwine.com/classic, or call
877.900.WINE.
Not just a ski resort, Aspen's plethora of warm-weather
pursuits pique nearly every passion, from extreme
outdoor adventure to Colorado’s best fly fishing,
indulgent spa offerings to world-class golf. Whether
it’s getting wet on the rapids of the Roaring Fork River
(which runs directly through Aspen’s downtown core),
scaling the rock walls up Independence Pass, or biking
on picturesque trails, there is an activity for everyone
to savor Aspen’s stunning mountain scenery and taste
“the good life.”
For visitor information, visit www.aspenchamber.org, or
call 1.888.290.1324 or 970.925.1940.
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