Miami’s First Jewish Food and Wine Festival Set for November 4th with Special Guest Linda Gassenheimer
Also joined by wine expert Todd Wernstrom and writer Jen Karetnick
October 27, 2006—MIAMI, FL—Congregation Bet Breira announces Miami’s first Jewish Food & Wine Festival on Saturday, November 4th at 7:00 p.m. This celebration of Jewish culinary arts features television and radio personality, syndicated journalist and best selling author Linda Gassenheimer. Additionally, Wine News executive editor Todd Wernstrom will present a special kosher wine tasting seminar sponsored by Sunset Corners Fine Wine & Spirits. Writer Jen Karetnick will serve as judge for the festival dairy cook-off.
Linda Gassenheimer’s keynote presentation is titled “What’s on YOUR Plate? Fit delicious, healthy meals into our time-starved world and watch a special demonstration on Desserts Not to Die For—Have your cake without the weight.” The presentation features her newest book, Prevention’s Fit and Fast Meals in Minutes, available for signing at the event.
The Jewish Food & Wine Festival also features Jewish foods from around the world, kosher wine, beer and spirits tasting, cooking demonstrations and presentations, a silent food auction, cook-off and raffle prizes, and music by the Mazel Tones. Proceeds will help sustain Congregation Bet Breira of Miami and make it possible to provide programs and services to all. A portion of the proceeds will also be allocated to Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF), the association for the wellbeing of Israel’s soldiers.
Sponsors include A Slice of Heaven, Big Tomato, The Cereal Bowl, Chef’s Kitchen, Cold Stone Creamery, Crepemaker, Fleming, IsRoil Olive Oil, Jennifer’s Homemade, Joanna’s Marketplace, Layla Beer, Let Them Eat Cake, Lots of Lox, Offerdahl’s, McIvor Scotch Whiskey, Nespresso, Palm Water, The Pampered Chef, Special Events Catering by Les, Starbucks/Tazo, Sunset Corners Fine Wines & Spirits, Sugar Shack, Wall’s Ice Cream and Wolfberger Fruit Liqueurs. Corporate sponsors include American Exchange Group, Fox-Mar Photography and Pathman Lewis LLP.
Tickets are available from Congregation Bet Breira for $18-$90 per person. Mr. Wernstrom’s kosher wine seminar and tasting is an additional $36 per person. Space is limited. For more information, or to purchase tickets, please call 305-595-1500 or e-mail m_brand@comcast.net.
Linda Gassenheimer
Linda Gassenheimer is a television and radio personality, syndicated journalist, best selling author, spokesperson, and food consultant. Her latest books are Prevention’s Fit and Fast Meals in Minutes and Mix N’ Match Meals in Minutes for People with Diabetes. She is the producer and host of the weekly segment, “Food News and Views,” on WLRN 91.3 FM National Public Radio for South Florida and has made guest appearances on numerous radio and television programs throughout the United States and Canada. Her Miami Herald column “Dinner in Minutes” is distributed on the McClatchy-Tribune wire (nee Knight-Ridder/Tribune wire) and is read by over 4 million people each week. For more information please visit her web site at www.dinnerinminutes.com.
Todd Wernstrom
Executive editor of Wine News Todd M. Wernstrom practiced law for 14 years before giving up his practice in 2001 to write about wine. In addition to contributing features and helping shape the editorial direction of Wine News, he is a member of the BuyLine tasting panel, a comment columnist, and taster of more than 2,000 wines per year. He also consults for restaurants, corporations and foreign trade organizations on wine-related issues.
Jen Karetnick
Writer Jen Karetnick is the features editor for Wine News; travel columnist for Social Miami.com; and dining contributor for So. Florida, Living Real Miami, Las Olas Magazine and Gayot.com. She was the restaurant critic and columnist for the Miami New Times and New Times Broward/Palm Beach from 1992-2004, and her byline has appeared in various national publications including The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Ocean Drive, Women's Health & Fitness and Fodor's Miami and Florida guidebooks. The author of Around Miami with Kids, Jen is co-author of Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow and editor of Hungry? Thirsty? Miami .
Congregation Bet Breira
Congregation Bet Breira, The House of Choice, was established as a response to individual needs. It is committed to a creative approach in expressing Jewish identity and maintains a dynamic preschool and day school. Led by Rabbi Jaime Aklepi, the newly-elected president of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami, and Cantorial Soloist Don Bennett, Bet Breira serves 350 families in South Miami-Dade County.
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