genConnect Dishes Up Interviews With Top Chefs, Sommeliers

ASPEN, Colo. - June 14, 2013 - PRLog -- The genConnect, http://www.genconnect.com, team will sample delectable bites and clink glasses with expert chefs, best new chefs and sommeliers Friday, June 14 and Saturday, June 15 at the 31st annual FOOD & WINE Classic in Aspen.
“We will once again provide our genConnect audience with VIP access to the people that make the FOOD & WINE Classic the nation’s premier culinary festival,” says Nancy Spears, CEO and founder of genConnect. “We look forward to chatting with expert chefs and tasting incredible food and wine.”

genConnect will be broadcasting live as official press for the third consecutive year, producing a series of video interviews with the luminaries of the epicurean world as well as the visionary geniuses who are shaping its future. Television personality and lifestyle expert Sissy Biggers will interview top chefs, bakers and sommeliers, including:

Food Network personality Andrew Zimmern
Charm City Cakes owner and “Ace of Cakes” star Duff Goldman
World-famous chef Jacques Pepin and his daughter, Claudine Pepin
Wine expert and columnist Mark Oldman
Journalist and sommelier Anthony Giglio
Spanish chef and restaurateur José Andres
Culinary expert, food writer and television personality Gail Simmons
Renowned pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini
Chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Susan Feniger
Chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and television personality Ming Tsai
Master sommelier and restaurateur Bobby Stuckey

The video interviews will be streamed on genConnect.com, foodandwine.com, and select other distribution partners, as well as on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. The videos will also air on “Zest,” https://www.youtube.com/user/genconnectofficial/videos?ta..., our new digital show on YouTube hosted by Sissy Biggers.

The festival brings the FOOD & WINE brand to life with more than 80 cooking demonstrations and wine seminars, panel discussions and tasting events. The Grand Tasting Pavilion, considered the epicenter of the Classic, features more than 300 wines and luxury lifestyle brands sampling their newest products.

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