Austin Food & Wine Festival

The Austin Food & Wine Festival was held for the first time in Austin, Texas, in 2012 and will return again in 2013. The Festival benefits the nonprofit Austin Food & Wine Alliance.

Festival

History

The Austin Food & Wine Festival was presented for the first time April 27–29, 2012, after the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival, which had been held in Austin for 26 years, "transitioned" into the Austin Food & Wine Alliance[1][2][3] as a nonprofit organization.[4]

Headliners during the 2012 event, which was brought to Austin by Food & Wine magazine and C3 Presents, were celebrity chefs Masaharu Morimoto, Marcus Samuelsson, Michelle Bernstein, Gail Simmons and Tyson Cole. Music was by singer-songwriters Lucinda Williams and Mayer Hawthorne. There were 35 cooking demonstrations and wine and cocktail seminars. A tasting pavilion featured 80 wine, spirit and food exhibitors, with local and regional restaurants. Events were at Auditorium Shores and at Republic Square Park.[5][6]

Future

The chef and wine lineup for the 2013 Festival on April 26–28, 2013, includes Andrew Zimmern, Aaron Franklin, Paul Qui, Marcus Samuelsson, Adam Richman, Christina Tosi, Laura Sawicki and Jack Gilmore.[7]

Partners

Partners for the festival include Tim Love, Tyson Cole, Jesse Herman and the C3 Presents organization, a concert promotion, event production and artist management company based in Austin.[2]

Alliance

The Austin Food and Wine Festival will benefit the nonprofit Austin Food & Wine Alliance, which is "dedicated to fostering awareness in the Central Texas culinary community through grants, educational programming and events."[2][8]

Organization

As of November 2012, the Alliance's executive committee included Cathy Cochran-Lewis, president; Paul Barnes, treasurer; Jeff Christner, treasurer; Gina Burchenal, secretary, and Chad Auler, past president. Members of the board of directors were Linda Bebee, Michael Aaron Bepko, Christian Bowers. Sandra Spaulding, Tom Thornton and Marshall Wright. Committee chairs were Edward Moody, Elaine Garza, Molly Chambers Tassos, Lisa Nuccio, Jerome Chandil, Brenda Audino, Courtney Knittel and Natasha Calvert. Mariam Parker was the executive director.[8]

Grants

The Alliance will offer three grants totaling $20,000 to Central Texas "beverage artisans, producers, culinary professionals" or to people who "represent a culinary/food-focused non-profit." They are to be awarded on December 12, 2012, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center at the McCombs School of Business in Austin.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Carbon, Nicole (March 2012). "C3 and Food & Wine Magazine Aim to Put Austin on the Culinary Map". Austin Woman Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
  2. 1 2 3 Ward, Arden. "Austin Food and Wine Festival Announces 2013 Dates". CultureMap Austin.
  3. ↑ "Inaugural Austin Food and Wine Festival". Vinography.
  4. ↑ "The Austin Food & Wine Festival". Do512.
  5. ↑ Keller, Stephanie (April 9, 2012). "The Austin Food and Wine Festival Draws Close and the City Intensifies Crush on Chef Paul Qui". Huffington Post.
  6. ↑ Hummel, Emily. "Austin Food & Wine Festival". KVUE.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-06.
  7. ↑ Grimes, Andrea (November 8, 2012). "Austin Food & Wine Festival Talent Announced". AustinEater.com.
  8. 1 2 3 "Austin Food & Wine Alliance". Austinfoodwinealliance.org. Austin Food & Wine Alliance.

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