Wine, Food, Mario, Leonardo

Once again, Mario Batali will generously offer his otherworldly cooking skills to the Leelanau Conservancy’s annual Summer Picnic auction. It’s your opportunity to be coddled and fed by the great clogged chef himself in a private Leelanau County dinner for you and eleven friends. What’s it worth? Based on numbers from the last couple years, the winning bidder will [...]

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Jennifer McLagan

A James Beard Award winning author for her first cookbook, Bones, McLagan is also the author of Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes. A guest chef for the 2006 Classic, she lives and writes from her home in Toronto and is excited to make it back to Traverse City for this year’s [...]

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Cree LeFavour

The daughter of a restaurant owner, LeFavour is the author of The New Steak: Recipes for a Range of Cuts plus Savory Sides, published recently by Ten Speed Press. She has a Ph.D. from NYU, and writes with warm, witty skill, so her blog at creelefavour.com is widely wide. She lives in upstate NY.

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Lori Narlock

The author of ten-plus cookbooks including the recently released Small Plates Perfect Wines: Creating Little Dishes with Big Flavors, Narlock lives in Napa Valley because she’s an avid, very knowledgeable wine lover and often writes about food and wine for Fine Cooking magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Examiner, amongst other fine publications.

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Kim Sunee

South Korean born then abandoned at three in a marketplace, Sunee lands in New Orleans as an adoptee and begins an independent, food-centric stretch of life culminating in Provence. Her new book, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home is a multi-ethnic journal of self-discovery.

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Martha Foose

Foose is a Mississippi native and executive chef of the Viking Cooking School where she teaches thousands of home cooks the intricacies of bringing contemporary flair to Southern food. Her new book, Screen Doors & Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook has been hailed by Paula Deen, Matt and Ted Lee, and [...]

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Deborah Schneider

After cooking and working her way around Greece on a private yacht, Schneider made landfall in San Diego and lost herself in the alluring flavors of Mexico’s Pacific coast cooking, and specifically the Baja. She has spent the last several years working in some of San Diego’s best kitchens and working on cookbooks including Baja: [...]

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Great Lakes Themed Opening Reception To Launch 2008 Epicurean Classic

What better way to celebrate the Midwest’s imcomparable bounty of fruit, produce, meat and fish than with innovative dishes prepared by an all-star cast of chefs from around the Great Lakes region. Complemented by Michigan’s most acclaimed wines, beers, and spirits and you have home-grown goodness par excellence. Scheduled for September 11 at the Great [...]

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Raghavan Iyer

Named the International Association of Cookbook Professional’s Teacher of the Year in 2004, Iyer is the author of the newly released 660 Curries: The Gateway to Indian Cooking, and The Tumeric Trail: Recipes and Memories from an Indian Childhood.

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Epicurean Classic Announces Featured Guest Artisans

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    
Epicurean Classic Announces Featured Guest Artisans
      Nation’s Finest Gathering of Cooks with New Books  
Traverse City, MI, July 11, 2008:  The Epicurean Classic has announced its guest list of food and wine artisans for the annual gathering held in Traverse City, MI at Northwest Michigan College’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute, September 11 - [...]

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