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Food & Beverage All Stars
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The 16th Annual Americas Food and Beverage Show & Conference is proud to announce it’s first-ever class of Food & Beverage All-Stars. Each week we will feature new all-stars and experts from the food and beverage industry in Florida, the Caribbean and around the globe.
Denisse Oller
Denisse Oller is an advocate, spokesperson and champion of the Latino experience. Through her professional work as a journalist, chef and community leader, Ms. Oller supports educational initiatives that are at the forefront of the Latino community. From healthy eating, healthy living, education and the arts: Denisse is committed to enrich, lead and educate about and for the benefit of Latinos.
Liza Mosquito de Guia
Liza Mosquito de Guia is Founder and Chief Storyteller of Food Curated, an online food site dedicated to showcasing where good food comes from and the people, personalities, ideas and techniques behind it. She’s made it her goal to share her passion for food with others, in hopes that you will be just as passionate about where the most amazing food in the world comes from. Food Curated was recently nominated for it’s THIRD 2012 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Video Webcast!
Ivan Ruiz
Ivan Ruiz is a wine expert with broad experience in all aspects of the hospitality industry. He is a certified Sommelier who has been involved with all facets of the industry, including wine retail, wine imports, Restaurant management, and wine education. He owns The Wine List of Summit, a boutique wine shop that sells wine, spirits and beer, and offers a wine school, wine storage, wine club and also builds private wine cellars. As the founding director of The Summit Wine and Food Festival in Summit, NJ, Ivan uses his life-long experience and love of wine and the culinary arts to organize one of the finest festivals of its kind.
Paul Barron
Paul Barron is THE restaurant industry guru, and also a producer, webpreneur, speaker, global event creator and social media mentor for the restaurant and hospitality industry. As the author of the first book on the Fast Casual Restauarant business and how it connects with this new consumer culture, The Chipotle Effect is about the changing landscape of the American social restaurant and hospitality consumer. He was listed by Forbes as one of the Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers in 2012 and is the 2012 Restaurant Trendsetter of the year. He’s made it his life’s mission to “help the restaurant industry change the planet”.
Cocina y Vino
Cocina y Vino is a Magazine, published in Caracas, Venezuela. Considered the leader in gastronomy, they specialize in gourmet magazine recipes, chefs, wines and spirits. Articles from their outstanding magazine can be found online at their website, cocinayvino.net. You can also find interviews with chefs, recipes, the latest food innovations and information on how to subscribe to the printed version of the magazine.
Findood Guys
Findood Guys travel the world attending Food & Beverage trade shows. They are currently building the Online B2B Trade Show for the Food and Beverage Industry, where they blog and tweet the Trade Shows they attend and trends they see.
David Henkes
www.onpremiseinsights.com | www.technomic.com
David Henkes is Vice President of Technomic, a fact-based research and consulting firm that is focused on food and related products and services. Technomic has been an industry leader for over 45 years. In addition to Technomic, David Henkes is a Food & Beverage Industry trendspotter, consultant, and connoisseur.
John Craven
As Founder & CEO of BevNET, John Craven is a widely recognized authority on the beverage industry. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of BevNET.com and the Editorial Director of BevNET Magazine, overseeing their day-to-day operations. John is a graduate of Boston College with a BS in Marketing and Computer Science
Jennifer Brett, AJC Buzz
Jennifer Brett is a member of the AJC Opinion and Insight Team and is a newsroom leader. When Us Weekly, People, In Touch or other celeb magazines want to find out breaking celeb news in Atlanta … they read Jennifer’s Twitter feed. She keeps star gazers informed of where celebs eat, drink, sleep and play when they’re in Atlanta. She writes the AJC’s Peach Buzz column, which appears on p. 2 of the Living section Thursdays and Saturdays, the Buzz blog, which is updated daily and the @ajcBuzz Twitter account, updated constantly with up-to-the-minute star sightings and other indispensable celeb chatter.
Louis S. Luzzo Sr., Gourmet Guy Mag
Louis S. Luzzo is the creator and curator of the popular food blog Kitchen Rap, which covers a range of topics related to food, wine, travel and everything in between. His active twitter stream keeps followers up to date on the happenings in the food industry around the world.
Blanca Valbuena, FriendsEat
Blanca Valbuena, @Jolie311, cofounded FriendsEat.com in the fall of 2006. FriendsEAT.com is a food and dining social community. The FriendsEAT community is comprised of chefs, restaurateurs, food bloggers, and foodies throughout the world. Blanca considers herself a foodie and is completely obsessed with everything dealing with food. Her extensive travels left her wanting more from culinary and restaurant guides. She found it difficult when traveling to remote places like Cabarete in Dominican Republic, Bodrum in Turkey and even in more mainstream places such as San Juan in Puerto Rico to get trust worthy advice on places to eat. That was the inspiration for FriendsEAT.
Matthew Horbund
Passionate about food and wine for over 20 years, Matthew Horbund loves sharing that passion with the world. In addition to writing about wine, Matthew makes regular appearances on the syndicated morning show Daytime and CBS12 WPEC as their ‘wine aficionado’, and has since 2009. Matthew hosts wine events in collaboration with many restaurants and resorts, including the Four Seasons in Palm Beach, as well as personal, in home wine tastings and events. Additionally, using social media applications like Twitter, Facebook, and Ustream has allowed Matthew to share his love for wine with you in a fully engaging way. Matthew’s mission is to make wine approachable for the uninitiated, while adding value for the serious connoisseur.
Luciana Bianchi
theworlds50best.com/author/Luciana-Bianchi
Luciana Bianchi is chef de cuisine and food writer, works as International Editor correspondent for the Brazilian gourmet magazine, Prazeres da Mesa, and contributes to several publications around the world.
Educated Palates, UC Press
University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. UC Press Food & Wine publishes Gastronomica (@gastronomica) & great books on food & wine. Tweets are from Kate Marshall, our editor for food, agriculture, and environmental studies.
Drink Spirits
We started DrinkSpirits.com after noticing how many people order the same drink time and time again when they go out to a bar. The back bar with its rows and rows of bottles is intimidating and it’s often easier to stick with something you are familiar with than try something new. We realized that there weren’t a lot of resources out there to help people explore the vast world of distilled spirits. There are few sites focused on helping people explore this amazing category of beverages. So we started DrinkSpirits.com
Alexandra Forbes
Alexandra Forbes is a food and travel writer based in Montreal who is best known in her native Brazil for her widely-read food and travel blog Boa Vida. She is the food editor at GQ Brasil and regularly contributes to Brazilian magazines such as VOGUE, CASA VOGUE, Prazeres da Mesa and Wish Report (Brazil’s premier luxury and lifestyle magazine). Her Gourmet column appears twice monthly in Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s largest daily. In Canada Alexandra has written for Air Canada’s inflight En Route, wine magazine Tidings, Azure and the Toronto Star. She also contributes to Lan’s inflight In, Food & Wine, and several custom publishing magazines. Online, her posts appear on various blogs, including Montreal for Insiders, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and The Montreal Buzz.
Victoria Pesce Elliott
Victoria Pesce Elliott has been a restaurant critic and food writer for The Miami Herald since 2000. Ms. Pesce Elliott’s career was inspired by growing up in a food-centric, second-generation immigrant family from Puglia, in the heel of the Italian boot. She held a wooden spoon long before she held a pen, as an eager student, she has studied with chefs and cooking teachers from Italy, France, Mexico and the U.S. Ms. Pesce Elliott is a contributing editor of the Miami ZAGAT guides for South Florida. She has been seen in disguise, of course, on Bravo’s hit Top Chef and After Hours with Daniel Boulud. She is one of 17 critics in the nation who sits on the prestigious Restaurant Review Committee of the James Beard Foundation, the board that administers the annual awards for chefs and restaurants around the country. Her work has also appeared in Bon Appetit, Saveur, Ocean Drive, Wine & Spirits, Executive Travel, New York Magazine and Vogue.
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