The Taste Of Vail - Food and Wine Festival in Vail, CO

The Taste of Vail is the nation's premier spring food and wine festival, held at several venues throughout North America's No. 1 mountain resort. During this year's annual, four-day event, as many as 6,000 people are expected to taste the Vail Valley lifestyle, showcasing world-famous Vail Village and set against dramatic Colorado Mountain High vistas. Participants at the Taste of Vail experience offerings from the Vail Valley�s world-class restaurants, fine wine poured by winemakers and winery owners from renowned wineries throughout the world, interactive cooking seminars, an Apres-Ski Tasting, the popular Mountaintop Picnic sensory extravaganza at the top of Vail Mountain, the famous Grand Tasting auction and dance and other exciting events. Proceeds from the Taste of Vail go to local charities. vail food and wine festival, gourmet, sinemaker, vail colorado, vail co, lifestyle in vail co, vail co entertainment, vail non-profit, vail charity event, food vail, wine vail, colorado mountain express discount, lodging vail co, lodging in vail, the taste of vail. wine vail, tasteofvail, tasteofvail.com, a taste of vails, What to do in Vail, Dining in Vail, Vail Dining, Vail restaurants, Best restaurants in vail


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Owner / Executive Chef Michael Chiarello

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Food Network
Napa, CA

More Information: http://www.napastyle.com

Owner / Executive Chef Michael Chiarello Michael Chiarello is the tastemaker behind NapaStyle, Chiarello Family Vineyards, Consorzio Flavored Oils, and Tra Vigne Restaurant as well as an Emmy-winning Food Network personality and cookbook author. Over his 20-year career, Michael has drawn on his Southern Italian roots and Napa Valley way of life to pioneer culinary and lifestyle innovations that inspire friends and family to gather around the table to create meaningful traditions in their own lives.

In 2000, Michael founded NapaStyle, a media-driven lifestyle retailer inspired by his Southern Italian heritage, Napa Valley style of life, and passion for seasonal and sustainable living. The NapaStyle line is available by catalog (1-866-776-6272), and online (www.NapaStyle.com), as well as at select gourmet specialty shops around the country. In September 2006, Michael opened the first and flagship NapaStyle retail store in Berkeley, California’s upscale and eclectic Fourth Street shopping district (1760 4th Street).

During his 20-year tenure as Executive Chef of Tra Vigne and seven other restaurants, Michael was twice named Chef of the Year: in 1985 by Food and Wine Magazine while at Toby’s in Miami; and in 1995 by the Culinary Institute of America.

Food Network’s Easy Entertaining, for which Michael co-produces, writes and stars, has won three daytime Emmy Awards, more than any other Food Network show. Michael’s other television shows include NapaStyle on Fine Living, and the PBS television series, Michael Chiarello’s Napa.

His latest cookbook, At Home with Michael Chiarello, follows Michael Chiarello’s Casual Cooking, which won the 2002 IACP Award, Napa Stories, The Tra Vigne Cookbook, Flavored Vinegars and Flavored Oils. Chronicle Books recently reissued Flavored Vinegars and Flavored Oils in a combined edition, entitled Michael Chiarello’s Flavored Oils and Vinegars.

Michael is also the proprietor of a small family winery, Chiarello Family Vineyards, making highly rated estate wines from the historic 94-year old vineyards surrounding his home in St. Helena, California (www.chiarellovineyards.com).

Born in 1962 and raised in the central California community of Turlock, Michael followed his childhood dream of becoming a world-class chef. He began apprenticing in restaurants at age 14 and graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, in 1982. Following attendance at Florida International University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, he began his professional career opening acclaimed restaurant, Toby’s, in Miami, Florida. After immediate acclaim and rapid success, in 1986 he moved back to his roots to open the Tra Vigne (among the vines) Restaurant in Napa Valley, where he acted as Executive Chef/partner for it and seven other restaurants until creating NapaStyle in 2000.

Michael incorporates his personal passion for living seasonally and sustainably into all of his businesses—from the products he designs, handpicks and tests for NapaStyle to the earth-friendly farming practices he employs at Chiarello Family Vineyards.

Events:
On Thursday, April 12, at 6:00 p.m., Darrell Jensen, Executive Chef of the Game Creek Restaurant, hosts Chiarello and three other acclaimed Vail Valley chefs for the second of the 17th annual Taste of Vail’s three Chefs Showcase Dinners. The five-course, five-chef gourmet dinner — in which courses are paired with special selections from fine wineries attending the festival — promises to be a true culinary extravaganza, followed by a live auction featuring rare bottles from the wineries. Tickets, $150 per person, are not included with the Festival Pass and are only sold through the Taste of Vail.

On Saturday April 14, 2007 from 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort & Spa, Lionshead, join Chef Michael Chiarello, of the Food Network, as he provides a demonstration of his trademark southern itialian cuisine.
Included in the Festival Pass.

Chef Chiarello will also be one of the many aclaimed Chef's at the Grand Taste, Auction & Dance on Saturday, April 14, from 7:00pm - 10:00pm.