QUICK BITES
A Colorado food and wine getaway
By Wanda A. Adams
Food Editor
If you are a food and wine enthusiast looking for a vacation experience that will really feed you — body, mind and soul — consider the 20th Anniversary Food & Wine magazine Classic at Aspen June 14-16 in Aspen, Colo., a week of tasting, cooking demonstrations, panel discussions and other events up close and personal with the chefs, food writers and wine experts you've followed in print and on television.
The schedule is a foodie wish list: cooking demonstrations by Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Florence Fabricant, Bobby Flay, Thomas Keller, Jacques Pepin with daughter Claudine, Wolfgang Puck with Lee Hefter, Charlie Trotter and Patricia Wells.
In wine, Andrea Immer, Michael Bonadies, Rory Callahan, Daniel Johnnes, Elin McCoy, Danny Meyer, Jeff Morgan, Richard Nalley, Steven Olson, Rajat Par, Dan Philips, Jancis Robinson and Joshua Wesson will conduct tasting seminars. Seminars include master classes with Pepin and Batali, a lobster course with Thomas Keller, how to match wine and barbecue with Meyer, chocolate tasting with Fabricant, Boulud revealing the secrets of some of his restaurant's specialties, Puck and Hefter doing the same with Spago secrets.
Cost: $850 plus tax and reserve tastings (and, of course, accommodations and air fare). Registration: (877) 900-WINE (900-9463) or visit www.foodandwine.com/classic.
Broth creations recipe contest
Here's a recipe contest that doesn't require you to work a bizarre ingredient into a concoction.
The Swanson Broth Culinary Creations Recipe Contest requires that roasting or simmering be a key cooking method and that every recipe include 1 cup of any Swanson Broth. Another twist: The winner receives an exclusive, two-day culinary internship with "top chefs," although they don't say who or where. Dishes will be judged on taste, popular appeal potential, appropriate use of broth, creativity. Deadline: April 30. Take a look at the Web site, swansonbroth.com, or phone (212) 679-6600 for rules.
Tamura's wines opens in Kaimuki
Tamura's Fine Wines has moved from its Kaka'ako location to a new shop in Kaimuki with more parking and a grocery section and, soon, pupu items, marinated meats and other good things. The mailing address for the shop is 3496 Wai'alae, but you enter from 1216 10th Street. It's across from the Central Pacific Bank and Kaimuki Park. The new phone number is 735-7100. The Wahiawa store is still in place at 400 Kilani Ave.
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