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The Ahwahnee Announces 30th Annual Chefs’ Holidays Lineup
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Top culinary talents and Yosemite National Park’s spectacular winter scenery share
the menu with cooking demos, chef receptions and gala dinners during this annual celebration
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Yosemite National Park, CA – July 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / The Ahwahnee, a National Historic Landmark hotel located in the heart of Yosemite Valley, announces the lineup for the 30th Annual Chefs’ Holidays event series. Celebrating the creativity and excellence of these culinary leaders in the world-renowned setting of Yosemite National Park, Chefs’ Holidays will be held over a series of eight sessions from January 11 - February 6, 2015.

Since the inception of Chefs’ Holidays in 1985, this event series has allowed park visitors to explore the natural beauty of Yosemite in winter while enjoying an intimate food and wine event at what is considered the crown jewel of the national park lodges. Chefs’ Holidays allow the participating chefs to relax after their busy holiday season and unwind with their culinary colleagues and Yosemite visitors. Each Chefs’ Holidays session includes a “Meet the Chefs” reception, three cooking demonstrations and tastings in the hotel’s Great Lounge moderated by culinary experts, a behind-the-scenes tour of The Ahwahnee’s 8,000 square foot kitchen and a gala dinner prepared by the session’s headliner chefs in The Ahwahnee Dining Room.

2015 Chefs’ Holidays Schedule:

Session 1: January 11-14 (Sunday-Wednesday)
Moderator: Liam Mayclem
Headliner: Kent Rathbun, Abacus, Dallas, TX
Culinary Demonstrator: Angela Salvatore, Waterbar, San Francisco, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Donald Link, Herbsaint, New Orleans, LA

Session 2: January 14-16 (Wednesday-Friday)
Moderator: Liam Mayclem
Headliner: Sarah & Evan Rich, Rich Table, San Francisco, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Brian Streeter, Cakebread Cellars, Rutherford, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Marcy Smothers, Food Explorer & Author

Session 3: January 18-21 (Sunday-Wednesday)
Moderator: Janice Wald Henderson
Headliner: Peter Armellino, Plumed Horse, Saratoga, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Annie Somerville, Greens, San Francisco, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Staffan Terje, Perbacco, San Francisco, CA

Session 4: January 21-23 (Wednesday-Friday) Collaborative Dinner*
Moderator: Janice Wald Henderson
Suzanne Goin, Lucques, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Silverton, Osteria Mozza, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Sue Milliken, Border Grill, Santa Monica, CA

Session 5: January 25-28 (Sunday-Wednesday)
Moderator: Michael Harlan Turkel
Headliner: John Cox, Sierra Mar at Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Jesse Cool, Flea Street Cafe, Menlo Park, CA and Nell Newman, Newman’s Own Organics
Culinary Demonstrator: Josey Baker, Josey Baker Bread/The Mill, San Francisco, CA

Session 6: January 28-30 (Wednesday-Friday)
Moderator: Michael Harlan Turkel
Headliner: Cal Stamenov, Marinus at Bernardus Lodge, Carmel Valley, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Peggy Smith & Sue Conley, Cowgirl Creamery, Petaluma & San Francisco, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Hosea Rosenberg, Winner “Top Chef” Season 5/Blackbelly Catering, Boulder, CO

Session 7: February 1-4 (Sunday-Wednesday)
Moderator: Carolyn Jung
Headliner: Ron Siegel, Michael Mina, San Francisco, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Hoss Zare, Fly Trap, San Francisco, CA
Culinary Demonstrator: Kyle Itani, Hopscotch, Oakland, CA

Session 8: February 4-6 (Wednesday-Friday) Collaborative Dinner*
TV’s Rockin’ Women Chefs
Moderator: Carolyn Jung
Duskie Estes, “Next Iron Chef”/Zazu, Santa Rosa, CA
Elizabeth Falkner, “Next Iron Chef”/ Chef/Pastry Chef /Author/TV Personality
Ariane Duarte, “Top Chef”/Ariane’s, Verona, NJ

*Indicates a collaborative dinner, one course by each chef plus one course by Ahwahnee Executive Chef Percy Whatley and Ahwahnee Executive Pastry Chef Paul Padua.

Special hotel packages for Chefs’ Holidays are available at either The Ahwahnee or Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, which includes lodging, culinary demonstrations and tastings, a “Meet the Chefs” reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres, a behind-the-scenes kitchen tour and the five-course Chefs’ Holidays Gala Dinner paired with wine in The Ahwahnee Dining Room. The following rates are based on double occupancy, subject to change, and do not include room taxes. Individual tickets for the Gala Dinner may be purchased at a price of $199 per person, including gratuity and excluding tax.

Two-night Packages from: 
The Ahwahnee: $449 per person
Yosemite Lodge at the Falls: $319 per person

Three-night Packages from:
The Ahwahnee: $574 per person
Yosemite Lodge at the Falls: $379 per person

Free event-specific shuttle bus transportation is provided between Yosemite Lodge at the Falls and The Ahwahnee for the Chef’s Holidays Gala Dinner. For more information on Chefs’ Holidays at The Ahwahnee or to make reservations, call 801-559-4949 or visit www.YosemitePark.com/Chefs.

About The Ahwahnee
The Ahwahnee, the AAA Four-Diamond hotel featuring rustic architecture with Native American, Middle Eastern and Art and Crafts design elements, is located in scenic Yosemite National Park, which is home to stunning natural beauty, year-round activities and historic charm. The Ahwahnee was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and in 1987 it was listed as a National Historic Landmark. Condé Nast Traveler magazine recognized The Ahwahnee was in the 2010 “Reader’s Choice Awards” as one of the top 100 resorts in the United States. For more information, visit www.YosemitePark.com/ahwahnee.

About Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts
Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts is an industry leader, providing Stewardship and Hospitality in Special Places (SM) with hotel, retail, food service, recreation and transportation operations at historic and scenic properties in North America and Australia. The company operates Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida; in Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Olympic (Kalaloch Lodge), Shenandoah and Yosemite national parks, including The Ahwahnee and other Yosemite lodges; The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake in Ohio; Harrison Hot Springs Resort & Spa in British Columbia; Gideon Putnam Resort in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Peaks of Otter Lodge on the Blue Ridge Parkway and in Niagara Falls State Park. The company also owns and operates Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite; the Park Gate Lodges at Yellowstone, which are the West Yellowstone Holiday Inn, Gray Wolf Inn and Suites and Yellowstone Park Hotel, as well as the new Explorer Cabins, all in West Yellowstone, Mont.; and five luxury resorts in Australia: Lizard Island Resort, Heron Island Resort, Wilson Island Resort, Kings Canyon Resort and El Questro Homestead and Wilderness Park. To learn more about Delaware North Companies’ hospitality management expertise, visit www.DelawareNorth.com/parks-and-resorts-home.aspx.

About Delaware North Companies
Delaware North Companies is one of the largest and most admired privately held hospitality companies in the world. Founded and owned for nearly 100 years by the Jacobs family, it is a global leader in hospitality and food service. Its family of companies includes the newly acquired Patina Restaurant Group, Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment, Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services, Delaware North Companies Sportservice, Delaware North Companies International and Delaware North Companies Boston, owner of TD Garden.

Through these companies, Delaware North manages and provides food and beverage concessions, premium dining, entertainment, lodging, and retail at many large venues and special places. These include high-profile venues ranging from sports stadiums, entertainment complexes, national parks, airports, and some of the top regional casinos in the country.

Delaware North Companies has revenue exceeding $3 billion annually and 60,000 associates serving half a billion customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. For more information, visit www.DelawareNorth.com.

Media Contact:
Lisa Cesaro, Public Relations
DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc.
209-372-1445
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