1. food and drink

Start Time: FRIDAY 11:15 AM
Event: Cook Book How To: Publisher Side
Moderator: Nathalie Dupree is the Author of eleven cookbooks
about the American South, entertaining and basic cooking. She has
hosted over 300 television shows on the Food Network, The Learning
Channel and PBS. She has been a spokesperson for Wild American
Shrimp, The Catfish Institute and many other organizations. She
currently writes for The Post And Courier in Charleston, SC, as well
as Charleston Magazine and other publications. She has been featured
in numerous television shows and publications, from Bobby Flay, the
Today Show and Good Morning America to Redbook, Good
Housekeeping, Bon Appetit, the New York Times, The Washington
Post and others. She is married and lives in Charleston, S.C. with her
husband, Jack Bass. Please welcome Natalie Dupree!
Participants:
• Judy Pray
o Judy Pray is a senior editor at Artisan Books specializing
in cookbooks. She has edited cookbooks by Sean Brock,
Tom Colicchio, Alice Medrich, Cheryl and Griffith Day,
and Edward Lee, among others. She was previously senior
editor at Clarkson Potter. She resides in New York City.
• Amy Hughes
o Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency, Amy Hughes
has 14 years of publishing experience; previously an agent
with McCormick & Williams, she started her career as a
publicist at Simon & Schuster, and as an editor at Penguin.
• Bruce Shaw
o Bruce Shaw acquired The Harvard Common Press in 1980
and has been the president and publisher for the past 30
years.
• Adam Salomone
o Adam Salomone is the Associate Publisher of The Harvard
Common Press, overseeing the company’s digital strategy
across individual book/author brands.
• Amy Corley
o Amy Corley is a food and lifestyle publicist. For more than
15 years, she has been publicizing best-selling authors,
designers and some of the world’s top chefs and celebrated
cookbook authors
Start Time: FRIDAY 12:15 PM
Event: “Cooking” Up a Wine List
Moderator: Todd Kliman, Washingtonian - Todd Kliman is Food and Wine
Editor of The Washingtonian and also the magazine's food critic. He was
previously the food columnist for The Washington City Paper, where he
won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award in 2005 for the country's
best newspaper column.
His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, National
Geographic Traveler, The Washington Post Magazine, and The Oxford
American, among others, and spans a gamut of subjects -- from punk rock to
corporate thuggery, from media barons to young gang members
Participants:
• Hugh Acheson
o Hugh Acheson is the chef/partner of Five & Ten, the
National, Gosford Wine located in Athens, GA and Empire
State South in Atlanta, GA.
• Ken Vedrinski
o Executive chef, owner and sommelier of Trattoria Lucca,
his restaurant in downtown Charleston located on Bogard
Street. Lucca was quickly hailed as “Charleston’s Best
New Restaurant” by Charleston City Paper in 2008 and
was a semi-finalist for “Best New Restaurant” in the 2009
James Beard Awards.
• George Mendes
o Owner of ALDEA restaurant in New York; In its debut
year, ALDEA was named one of the ten best restaurants to
open nationwide by Alan Richman of GQ magazine and
was ranked third among the ten best new New York
restaurants by Bloomberg restaurant critic Ryan Sutton.
Start Time: FRIDAY 1:30 PM
Event: The Future for Foodies
Moderator: Izabela Wojcik, She is currently the Director of House
Programming for the James Beard Foundation, where she oversees a diverse
program of 250 special events held at the historic James Beard House
Participants:
• Matt + Ted Lee
o Matt +Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and
in 1994 founded the Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue.
Their first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook,
won the Julia Child Award from the IACP and the James
Beard Foundation Award for “Cookbook of the Year.”
Their New Cook Book is called Simple Fresh Southern.
• Joe Yonan
o Is the author of Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in
Cooking for One. He’s the Food and Travel editor for The
Washington Post, where he writes regular features,
including the monthly “Cooking for One” column that
inspired his current book.
• John T. Edge
o Writes a monthly column, “United Tastes,” for the New
York Times. He is a contributing editor at Garden & Gun.
He is a longtime columnist for the Oxford American. He
was a contributing editor at Gourmet.
Start Time: FRIDAY 2:45 PM
Event: How To Get There: Leading Women of the Culinary World
Tell All
Moderator: Jen Murphy, Deputy Editor at AFAR Media, Contributing
Writer at FOAM Magazine, former Travel Editor at Food & Wine magazine,
and Columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
Participants:
• Virginia Willis
o Author of the acclaimed cookbook, Bon Appétit, Y’all:
Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern
Cooking (Ten Speed Press, 2008). Her next book, Basic to
Brilliant, Y’all: Recipes and Recollections of a Southern
Culinary Journey is the lead book for Ten Speed Press for
Fall of 2011Martha Hall Foose
• Barbara Lynch
o In 1998, Barbara opened a restaurant of her own, No. 9
Park, in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. The
restaurant immediately received rave reviews from
publications around the country and was named one of the
“Top 25 New Restaurants in America” by Bon Appétit and
“Best New Restaurant” by Food & Wine.
• Jennifer Cole
o Features Editor for Southern Living magazine
o Cole is a cornbread-loving member of the Southern
Foodways Alliance and a voting member of the James
Beard Foundation
• Nathalie Dupree is the Author of eleven cookbooks about the
American South, entertaining and basic cooking. She has
hosted over 300 television shows on the Food Network, The
Learning Channel and PBS. She has been a spokesperson for
Wild American Shrimp, The Catfish Institute and many other
organizations. She currently writes for The Post And Courier
in Charleston, SC, as well as Charleston Magazine and other
publications. She has been featured in numerous television
shows and publications, from Bobby Flay, the Today Show
and Good Morning America to Redbook, Good Housekeeping,
Bon Appetit, the New York Times, The Washington Post and
others. She is married and lives in Charleston, S.C. with her
husband, Jack Bass. Please welcome Natalie Dupree!
Start Time: FRIDAY 4:00 PM
Event: Iron Mixologist Cocktail Competition
Moderator: Charlotte Voisey Company Mixologist with William Grant &
Sons, was recognized by the James Beard Foundation in 2009 for her
contributions to mixology. Charlotte's unique cocktails can be found on
menus across the world. Recent consulting projects include the Mandarin
Oriental, Las Vegas, FIG and Fairmont, Santa Monica, The Dorchester Hotel
in London, Kenmare, Cienfuegos and the Gramercy Park Hotel in
Manhattan and most recently the W Hotels Downtown NY and Austin.
Charlotte is a regular on TV, notably CBS' The Early Show, Fox & Friends
and the current series of Top Chef Masters 2010 and The Next Iron Chef
America.
Judges: Warren Bobrow, Junior Merino, Nicholas Polacchi
Participants:
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Evan Powell (Fish),
Mick Matricciano
(The Belmont),
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Brent Sweatman
(Biggie’s Gastropub),
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Jon Calo (Cocktail
Club
Start Time: SATURDAY 10:00 AM
Event: Cook Book How To: Author Side
Moderator: Adam Salomone the Director of Digital Initiatives at The
Harvard Common Press, a Boston-based, independent publisher of
cookbooks and books on childcare and parenting.
Participants:
• Matt + Ted Lee
o Matt +Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and
in 1994 founded the Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue.
Their first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook,
won the Julia Child Award from the IACP and the James
Beard Foundation Award for “Cookbook of the Year.”
Their New Cook Book is called Simple Fresh Southern.
• Cheryl Day
o Co-Owner Savannah's Back in the Day Bakery; Co-Author
The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook
• Peter Frank Edwards
o A travel, food and lifestyle photographer, Peter Frank
Edwards contributes to some of the world’s leading
magazines, including Travel+Leisure, Islands, Food &
Wine, Southern Living, and Garden & Gun. He has
recently completed two book projects — Sara Foster’s
Southern Kitchen and Cool Inside: Hank’s Seafood
Restaurant,
Start Time: SATURDAY 11:00 AM
Event: Fostering Wholesome Waves Locally
Moderator: Mickey Bakst, The general manager of Charleston Grill—
recently named one of America’s top five maître d’s—and founder of
Charleston Chefs Feed the Need
Participants:
• Michel Nischan
o Dressing Room Restaurant, CEO, Founder and President
of Wholesome Wave
• Karalee Nielsen
o Karalee fell in love with restaurants at 16, opening her
own spot only four years later. Fast forward to present day
and the adventure maven is co-owner of a bevy of
Charleston must-eats : Revolutionary Eating Ventures
• Nikki Seibert
o Agriculture Director for Lowcountry Local First
Start Time: SATURDAY 3:30 PM
Event: Out of the Kitchen, On to the Shelves
Moderator: Lynn Seldon is a Virginia-based freelance travel writer and
photographer. His Blue Ridge sports coverage credits include Blue Ridge
Outdoors, SKI Magazine, Blue Ridge Country, and West Virginia Outdoors.
The new editions of two of his books, Country Roads of Virginia and 52
Virginia Weekends feature many great road trips throughout the Old
Dominion.
Participants:
• Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson
o Restaurant: Frasca Food and Wine; Recipient of the 2008
James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Southwest;
In 2005, Lachlan was named one of Food & Wine
Magazine’s “Best New Chefs” in America and was also
recognized by the James Beard Foundation as the firstever Rising Star Chef nominee in Colorado
• Edward Lee
o Restaurant: 610 Magnolia Lousiville Kentucky; A James
Beard finalist for Best Chef: Southeast in 2011, he has
been featured in Gourmet and Esquire magazines, defeated
Iron Chef Jose Garces on Food Network’s Iron Chef
America, and appeared on the CBS Early Show, preparing
an eclectic three-course meal for a family of four for under
$40.
Start Time: SATURDAY 4:30 PM
Event: Flavors of Foraging
Moderator: Hunter Lewis, Food Editor, Bon Appétit
Participants:
• Chris Hastings
o Chris Hastings is chef of the nationally celebrated Hot and
Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Alabama, which he owns
with his wife Idie. Chef Chris Hastings and Hot and Hot
Fish Club have been featured in publications such as The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bon Appetit,
Food Arts, Nation’s Restaurant News, Santé Magazine, To
name a few.
• Trevor Kunk
o A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he joined
the Blue Hill team in 2004 and has worked every station in
the New York kitchen. Trevor was promoted to Chef de
Cuisine in 2007
• John Currence
o Restaurant City Grocery; 2006, he received the Southern
Foodways Alliance Guardian of Tradition Award and won
the 2008 Great American Seafood Cook-off in New
Orleans.
o In 2009, he was awarded the James Beard Foundation
award for Best Chef South and was a winner of Charleston
Food and Wine Festival’s Iron Chef Challenge.
o He is a contributing editor for Garden and Gun magazine
and an avid outdoorsman who enjoys bird hunting of all
varieties, fishing and golf.
Start Time: SATURDAY 5:30 PM
Event: Bringing Home the Butter
Moderator: Jen Murphy, Deputy Editor at AFAR Media, Contributing
Writer at FOAM Magazine, former Travel Editor at Food & Wine magazine,
and Columnist at The Wall Street Journal.
Participants:
• Ashley Christensen
o Restaurant owner of Pooles Diner in Raleigh, NC; Poole’s
counts many Raleigh residents and visitors as regulars and
has quickly gained national attention from Bon Appétit,
Gourmet, The New York Times and Southern Living. In
2008, The News & Observer named Poole’s “Best New
Restaurant.” Ashley was named one of the “Female Chefs
of the Next Generation” by Bon Appétit in their 2008
annual restaurant issue and holds the title of The
Independent Weekly’s “Best Local Chef” four years
running.
Start Time: SUNDAY 1:45 PM
Event: Whole Vegetable Cookery
Moderator: Jessica Mischner, Senior Editor, Garden & Gun
Participants:
• Hugh Acheson
o Hugh Acheson is the chef/partner of Five & Ten, the
National, Gosford Wine located in Athens, GA and Empire
State South in Atlanta, GA.
• Scott Crawford
o Restaurant: The Umstead Hotel and Spa Cary NC;
Crawford was named a James Beard Foundation Best
Chef: Southeast semifinalist in 2008 and 2011. In June
2011, he was honored to cook at the James Beard House in
New York City with Herons’ Chef de Cuisine Steven
Devereaux Greene.
• Maria Baldwin
o In 2009 I founded Our Local Foods, LLC which is a
“social enterprise” that operates on Thornhill Farm in
McClellanville, SC. Founding member of the School
Garden Network, a funding organization for educational
gardens serving youth in Sonoma County, California in
2004 while developing and working with educational
gardens from 1999 – 2006.
Start Time: SUNDAY 3:00 PM
Event: Whole Beast Butchery
Moderator:
Participants:
• Craig Deihl
o Author of Cypress: A Lowcountry Grille, and Chef at
Cypress; In 2010, Deihl was the recipient of a prestigious
James Beard Foundation nomination for Best Chef –
Southeast and also Chef of the Year by the Charleston
chapter of the American Culinary Foundation. In 2011, he
was a Finalist for the 2011 James Beard Foundation
awards for Best Chef – Southeast.