South Beach Wine & Food Festival

Reserve Your Place at the 2007 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival
Presented by Food & Wine Magazine

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickets for the star-studded 2007 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival will fly when they go on sale Monday, October 16, 2006. Presented by Food & Wine magazine, the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival serves up four delicious days (February 22 - February 25) of savory delights prepared by celebrated chefs complemented by unrivalled wine and spirits tastings led by winemakers, master sommeliers and master mixologists the world over.

South Florida's already eclectic culinary scene plays host to everyone's favorite events along with a few new ones sure to tickle everyone's taste buds. Among them, the Amstel Light Burger Bash will pay tribute to America's favorite sandwich at a deliriously fun and delicious tasting featuring award winning burgers from the country's best burger joints.

In addition, new festival title sponsor Food Network adds even more flair to the proceedings with the launch of the first ever Food Network Awards. A host of Food Network personalities will make appearances at the Awards show as well as the Publix Grand Tasting Village and other events throughout the weekend.

The wildly popular Moet & Chandon BubbleQ is back with Al Roker at the helm while Wine Spectator's Best of the Best brings together the best in the food world with the best in the wine and champagne world.

Wine will flow at the Miami Beach Convention Center when the festival launches its new format of the Wine Spectator Wine Seminars. Two Wine Spectator Wine Seminar packages on Saturday and one on Sunday will satisfy every wine lover's craving for the incomparable merits of Chateau Haut-Brion, Chateau Margaux, Chateau d'Yquem, Chateau Cheval Blanc, and Marchesi Antinori to name just a few.

The Kellogg's Kidz Kitchen presented by Miami Children's Hospital returns with an even bigger lineup sure to earn every kid's stamp of approval. Kids will light up with excitement as they learn how to cook from their favorite chefs Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray, Dylan Lauren, Giada De Laurentiis, George Duran and Bobby Flay.

New York magazine's insatiable restaurant critic Gael Greene presides over a Tribute Dinner honoring Le Bernardin's Eric Ripert and Maguy Le Coze on Saturday, February 24. On Sunday, February 25, Gael Greene joins Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida and FIU to fete Martha Stewart and Peter and Robert Mondavi at the festival's Tribute Brunch.For a complete calendar of events and to purchase tickets from October 16, 2006, visit www.sobewineandfoodfest.com or call 877-762-3933. Wine and food lovers should mark their calendars as tickets sell out quickly.

All events of the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival are supported by the students of Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Each year, more than 500 students volunteer to assist organizers with sponsorship fulfillment, restaurant and exhibitor recruitment, logistics, inventory as well as working alongside some of the world's greatest celebrity chefs and winemakers. In addition to receiving a first-rate education in one of the country's most diversified hospitality and tourism markets, these students are provided the opportunity to work hands-on with some of the industry's greatest leaders through the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

Hosted by Southern Wine & Spirits of Florida and Florida International University, the festival benefits the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management Teaching Restaurant and the Southern Wine & Spirits Beverage Management Center, both located at FIU. For a complete listing of events and for more information, please visit the Festival website at www.sobewineandfoodfest.com or call 877-762-3933. For more information about FIU visit www.fiu.edu and for more information about Southern Wine & Spirits visit www.southernwine.com

FOOD NETWORK (www.foodnetwork.com) is a unique lifestyle network and website that strive to be way more than cooking. The network is committed to exploring new and different ways to approach food - through pop culture, competition, adventure, and travel - while also expanding its repertoire of technique-based information. Food Network is distributed to more than 89 million U.S. households and nine million website users. With headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and Knoxville, Food Network can be seen internationally in Canada, Australia, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, Monaco, Andorra, Africa, France, and the French-speaking territories in the Caribbean and Polynesia. The E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP), which also owns and operates Home & Garden Television Network (hgtv.com), Do It Yourself (diynetwork.com), and Fine Living (fineliving.com), is the manager and general partner.

SOURCE Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival -0- 10/12/2006

CONTACT: Lisa Palley, +1-305-642-3132, or lpalley@bellsouth.net, or Patrick Jong, +1-305-627-1275, or patrickjong@southernwine.com, both of Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival; or Maydel Santana Bravo of Florida International University, +1-305-348-1555, or Maydel.Santana-bravo@fiu.edu

Web sites:
http://www.sobewineandfoodfest.com
http://www.fiu.edu
http://www.southernwine.com
http://www.foodnetwork.com

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