The taste of a decade, an opportunity to win a trip to ‘SoBe’


The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival will celebrate 10 years of providing financial support and on-hand experience to FIU’s hospitality students next winter. A new cookbook looks back on a decade’s worth of recipes and offers a chance to win an all-inclusive trip to “SoBe” in 2011.

As the world-famous Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival prepares its biggest edition yet to celebrate its 10th anniversary next winter, organizers have whipped up a must-have appetizer rich on a decade’s worth of memories: a cookbook.

The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Cookbook will be released on Nov, 16, and feature 100 recipes by some of the festival’s fan-favorite guest chefs and personalities.

Click here for a preview, then put on your finest “Kiss the Chef” apron and try your hand at David Bouley’s “savory” buttermilk thyme chicken and apple puree, Michael Psilakis’ lamb burger or Mike Mills and Amy Mills’ Apple City Barbecue Grand World Champion ribs and 17th Street tangy pit beans.

Like with the festival’s, all proceeds from the cookbook, which will retail at $35, will directly benefit the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and the Southern Wine & Spirits Beverage Management Center located at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus.

Read about Panthers’ experiences leading up to and after the 2010 “SoBe.”

Foodies and winos and fans of the festival will have an opportunity to help create buzz for the book and enter a sweepstakes to win an all-inclusive trip to next year’s SoBe, scheduled for Feb. 24-27.

“We are asking for your support with our efforts to help drive advance sales and promote the cookbook,” said Lee Schrager, the festival’s founder and director. “The sweepstakes, with TastingTable.com, runs through Nov. 15 and encourages people to enter by updating their Facebook and Twitter status with #sobecookbook.”

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