Celebrity Chef Tasting Thursday, May 21st
Hosted By New Orleans' Chef John Besh'
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FEASTiVAL
Celebrity Chef Tasting
Thursday, May 21st
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Harrah's New Orleans Theatre
Hosted by New Orleans' Chef John Besh

The 18th annual New Orleans Wine & Food Experience (NOWFE) is excited
to announce the addition of its newest premier event, an inaugural
celebrity chef gala. FEASTiVAL, which will bring together some of
America's favorite celebrity chefs for a "feast" of signature dishes
paired with select wineries, will take place on Thursday, May 21st
from 7:30 pm until 10:00 pm at Harrah's New Orleans Theatre hosted by
New Orleans' Chef John Besh.

Celebrity chefs include Paul Kahan, Michel Richard, Marc Vetri, Neal
Fraser and Rick Browne. Chef Kahan, owner of Chicago's Blackbird,
avec, and The Publican, has been recognized as a Food & Wine Best New
Chef, James Beard Foundation Best Chef Midwest, and a nominee for the
James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef Award. Among his many
accolades, Michel Richard, chef of Michel Richard Citronelle and
Central Michel Richard in Washington, DC, is the winner of the 2007
James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef, 2008 James Beard
Foundation for Best New Restaurant, and the author of the JBF
nominated Happy in the Kitchen. Marc Vetri, executive chef and owner
of Philadelphia's highly acclaimed restaurants Vetri and Osteria, won
the James Beard Award for Best Chef
Mid-Atlantic, and recently published a cookbook including more than 125 of his
most-requested dishes. Chef Neal Fraser, hailing from the West Coast,
garnered much of his culinary experience from such luminaries as
Thomas Keller and David Burke before opening his Los Angeles
restaurant GRACE, where he serves New American cuisine. Rick Browne,
considered America's #1 barbeque guru, is a renowned barbecue and
grilling expert and the author of The Big Book of Barbecue Sides,
Grilling America and The Frequent Fryer Cookbook, and co-author of The
Barbecue America Cookbook.


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