Iron Chef Michael Symons Joins
Quixote Winery for Holiday Fundraiser

St. Helena, Calif., November 24, 2008—Tuesday, December 9, you may indulge in a getaway weekend to Meadowood Napa Valley where Iron Chef Michael Symons will serve his sexy, sophisticated American fare along with Carl Doumani’s Quixote wines from Stags Leap Ranch.  It’s all part of Meadowood’s annual The Twelve Days of Christmas.  Reservations are $1,225 per couple, including your night’s lodging and dinner seating for two.  The evening benefits Napa Valley’s Share our Strength program. For Quixote Winery mailing list members Meadowood is offering a $350 per person ticket for dinner exclusively.

Share Our Strength, a national foundation, has a long list of impressive accomplishments all aimed at ending childhood hunger.  Among them are:

• Served 40.2 million meals to kids;
• Established 926 new after school and summer feeding sites;
• Taught 200,000 kids about healthy foods and food choices;
• Grew 2.5 million pounds of produce in community gardens;
• Referred nearly 2 million people to food and nutrition assistance programs.

The evening’s festivities begin at 6 p.m. Quixote’s Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Syrah will be paired with Symon’s menu.  For reservations, please call:  800-458-8080.

Michael Symon is the chef and owner of the critically acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio.  He is the host of the Food Network’s Dinner Impossible.  Revered in the culinary world and adored in his hometown of Cleveland, Symon is credited with revitalizing the Cleveland palate. 

His thoughtful cooking style has earned him numerous honors among them:  National Rising Star by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine; Top Ten Best New Chefs by Food and Wine Magazine, America’s Best Restaurants in Gourmet Magazine, and a featured role in Michael Ruhlman’s  book, “The Soul of A Chef”.  The James Beard Foundation has nominated him for several awards and he has hosted over 100 episodes of The Melting Pot on The Food Network.

The Twelve Days of Christmas is poised to be a joyous, plugged-in affair with “webisodes” of each dinner to be produced and aired by FoodNetwork.com.  Online viewers can look forward to chefs creating their signature holiday menus while sharing tales and memories of holiday seasons past.  On-site diners will enjoy their culinary artistry first hand on the plate and in the glass while raising funds to keep at-risk children well nourished.

By Lew Price on November 25, 2008 9:51 AM | Permalink | Comments ( 0 )