TASTE SHOWCASE
Venture indoors to the Addison Conference Centre for cooking demonstrations, wine seminars, speciality food vendor displays and more!
STATE-OF-THE-ART VIKING KITCHEN PRESENTED BY:   ABOUT TASTE SHOWCASE Taste the local flavors of a dozen top chefs as they showcase their talents and share their cooking expertise at Taste Showcase during Taste Addison. Taste Showcase offers the ultimate culinary how-to experience and sampling celebration at the Addison Conference Center. Some of the area's top chef's will present hourly cooking demonstrations Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 12 (12 - 6 pm) on a state-of-the-art Viking Kitchen presented by Capital Distributing. Each chef will demonstrate a culinary creation while guests are encouraged to interact and ask questions while the delicacies are sampled. Every guest at Taste Showcase receives a commemorative booklet featuring the signature recipes. 2008 TASTE SHOWCASE SCHEDULE Friday, May 9 5 PM Specialty Vendors Open 7 PM RMPS Wine 101 - Mike Prather Saturday, May 10 1:00 Jose Cifuentes - Crowne Plaza Addison 2:00 Ron Meola - The Melting Pot Restaurant 2:30 RMPS Wine 101 - Terry Boyer 3:00 Buddy Celman - Nate's Seafood & Steakhouse 3:30 Ben Looney - Custom Cuisines Food Scuplting & Food Arrangements 4:00 Chris Svalesen - Go Fish Restaurant & Lounge 4:30 RMW 5:00 Richard Chamberlain - Chamberlain's Steak & Chophouse, Chamberlain's Fish Market Grill 5:30 RMPS Wine 101 - Terry Boyer Sunday, May 11 12:30 RMPS Wine 101 - Mike Prather 1:00 Vincent Harvard - Mercy Wine Bar 1:30 Ben Looney - Custom Cuisines Food Sculpting 2:00 Ted Allen, Discover Wine with Robert Mondavi 3:00 Tre Wilcox - Private Chef & Former Contestant of Top Chef 4:00 Christy Rost - TV Chef - "Just Like Home"/Cookbook Author "The Family Table" 4:30 RMW 5:00 Sharon Van Meter - Milestone Culinary Arts and The Viking Cooking School DISCOVER WINE with Robert Mondavi 
Friday, May 9 - 5PM-9PM Saturday, May 10 - Noon-6PM Sunday, May 11 - Noon-6PM National experts from Robert Mondavi Private Selection will be on hand as they unveil "Discover Wine with Robert Mondavi;" the new interactive wine display from the noted winery. Throughout the weekend, these experts will lead free tastings from a variety of fine wines. Additionally, the vintners at Robert Mondavi Private Selection will work with featured Taste Showcase Chefs as visitors learn how to pair a variety of wines with each of the showcased menu items. SPECIALTY FOOD VENDORS Friday, May 9 - 5PM-10PM Saturday, May 10 - Noon-6PM Sunday, May 11 - Noon-6PM In addition, Taste Showcase features samplings and unique food items from a variety of specialty food purveyors: - Ben Looney Custom Cuisines - Food Sculpting & Food Arrangements - Chocolate Covered Strawberries
- Butler's Gourmet Foods
- Packed with Love - Gourmet Dry Food Mixes, soups
- Paciugo Addison - Italian Farmers Jars & Ground Coffee
- Head Country BBQ - BBQ Sauce on Little Smokies
- Mr. Kooks Inc - Ethnic Indian Curries, Sauces
- Kaitlyn's Styles of Pasta - Dried Fresh, Flavored Pasta by the pound
- Beef Slabs of Texas LLC - 5 flavors of hand crafted beef jerky
- Winning Recipe, Inc - Sweet Creamy Garlic Dressing Dip Marinade
- Shrimp Station - Sample Gourmet Shrimp
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