SENSORY OVERLOAD - DESTINATION: TASTE OF ATLANTA. Indulge All Five Senses with Cooking & Music Stages - Wine Seminars

From Soul to Sweet, French to Fusion, Tahitian to Thai, take your taste buds on a global epicurean adventure with Taste of Atlanta! This two-day festival for food lovers allows you to taste whatever you crave with a little of this and a little of that! Taste of Atlanta will feature more than 70 of Atlanta's premier restaurants - come hungry enough to taste the weekend away!

RUB ELBOWS & WATCH THE PROS ON THE COOKING STAGE

Saturday, October 14.

11:00 a.m.

ProStart presents Executive Chef Malcolm Orser and Chef Michael Deihl along with students from Marietta High School and South Forsyth High School demonstrating their award-winning dishes

12:00 p.m.

Linton Hopkins, Executive Chef at Restaurant Eugene and winner of Food Network's Iron Chef America Atlanta Challenger Competition. Food Network is available on Comcast.

1:00 p.m.

Ex-Falcons Cheerleader, Celeste Podojil, Host and Chef of Gridiron Gourmet on Comcast's Falcons Vision and Guest Chef Brian Winbush, the Gourmet Griller and Owner/Executive Chef of Pearl's Country Kitchen

2:00 p.m.

he BBQ Queens, Karen Adler and Judith Fertig, cookbook authors, featured guests on the Food Network and Better Homes & Gardens TV, as well as featured writers for several national publications

3:00 p.m.

Irene Robinson Smith, known as the Southern chef with sass, author of 4 best selling cookbooks, featured guest of the Food Network and HGTV and was recently selected to be featured on the Rachael Ray Show.

4:00 p.m.

Virginia Willis, editor for The All-New Joy of Cooking, author of Pasta Dinner 1, 2, 3 and a regular contributor to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

5:00 p.m.

TV vs. Radio - CBS46's Gene Norman squares off against Will Gara from B98.5's Kelly & Alpha Morning Show

Sunday, October 15

11:00 a.m.

ProStart presents Executive Chef Malcolm Orser and Chef Michael Deihl along with students from Marietta High School and South Forsyth High School who will be demonstrating a few of their medal-winning dishes from the 2006 Georgia ProStart State Culinary competition.

12:00 p.m.

Gary Mennie, Executive Chef of Taurus.

1:00 p.m.

Executive Chef of Sotto Sotto, Riccardo Ullio

2:00 p.m.

Chef Gerry Garvin, star of his own show Turn up the Heat with G Garvin on TV One

3:00 p.m.

Co-Author of The One-Armed Cook: Quick and Easy Recipes, Smart Meal Plans and Savvy Advice for New (and not so new) Moms, Cynthia Steven Graubart

4:00 p.m.

Mary Moore, Owner of The Cook's Warehouse

5:00 p.m.

David Maini, Executive Chef of Fox Sports Grill

SMELL THE BOUQUET - OF WINE
The Atlanta Wine School will be on hand offering four wine seminars each day. Atlanta Wine School's Michael Bryan calls wine, "geography in a glass." And geography you'll get. On Saturday, seminars include Tuscan Gems, Taste of Italy, Chilean Excellence and South African Flavors. Sunday starts in Spain - Where Tradition Meets New Age. Chilean Excellence, The New Bordeaux and South African Classics are all seminars offered on Sunday as well.

LISTEN TO LIVE MUSIC
Savor the sounds from Taste of Atlanta's music stage with live performances scheduled throughout Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, hear music from Khat Phud, The Drexlers, Y-O-U, Marshall Seese and Brain Clay & Kompani. Sunday welcomes Coy Bowles, Jil Station, Bain Mattox, Five Star Iris and Little Country Giants to the stage!

For more information contact:
Tara Murphy/Dana Seith - 360 Media, Inc. - 404-577-8686 or info@360media.net

Source: Taste of Atlanta