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
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Delaware
North Companies has revenue exceeding $3 billion annually and 60,000 associates
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Media Contact:
Lisa
Cesaro, Public Relations
DNC Parks & Resorts
at Yosemite, Inc.
209-372-1445
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