The Finer Things in Life - Caviar to Truffles
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$50.00 at the door
reservations are required
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Location
A & B Lobster House
700 Front Street, upstairs
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Caviar to Truffles
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Many people enjoy the finer things in life.
When it comes to food, we've asked Key West Chef Alice Weingarten, chosen to prepare dinner at the prestigious James Beard Foundation in July 2000, to share her thoughts on fine food preparation.
Starting her culinary career at an early age, Chef Alice has developed a cuisine that bespeaks her beliefs that it should be delicious, beautiful to look at, and composed of a variety of flavors and textures.
Stay following the seminar at 12:00pm for a special lunch provided by Alonzo's $25.00 prix fixe menu.
Reservations are suggested.
Hosted by A & B Lobster House & presented by Premier Beverage
VIP pass holders are welcome.
Admission @ the door for non-VIP pass holders is $50.00.
Reservations are required and can be made by stopping at
The Key West Food and Wine Festival hospitality suite
or by calling 800-474-4319 or click here to reserve
The food revolution of the ‘70s coincided with Chef Alice Weingarten’s coming of age in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she worked her way through boarding school as a dishwasher and dreaming of being a visual artist. Fortunate for Alice, the New Hope restaurant where she started her culinary career, The Picnic Basket, was owned and operated by a female Chef, Florence Lefkowitz, who believed that women could succeed as restaurateurs. With her encouragement, Alice began mixing ingredients and ended up running the kitchen of this small restaurant in only a couple of year. At 17, Gourmet Magazine ran her fabulous Carrot Cake recipe and then it was off to be one of only a few female students at the venerable Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. After two years there, she left for a three-month internship and found herself in Key West.
After years of cooking under male Chef’s at some of Key West’s most notable restaurants, Chef Weingarten opened her first restaurant in Key West in August of 1996 – Alice’s on Duval - which quickly became a success. Building limitations helped her make the decision to close the highly successful Alice’s on Duval and move to a larger location across the street in the famous La te da guest house in September 1999. The lush, tropical, poolside dining room was a perfect compliment to her cuisine.
Alice has a personal philosophy about food that decrees that it should be – among other things – comforting. Her cuisine itself bespeaks her other beliefs that it should be delicious, beautiful to look at, and composed of a variety of flavors and textures. Alice’s food is described a mix of whimsical Asian, Mediterranean, Cuban and Caribbean creations with her mother’s meat loaf thrown in for good measure.
Among her accolades, Alice has been chosen as one of three Chefs from Key West to prepare dinner at the prestigious James Beard Foundation in July 2000. In addition, Alice was awarded the distinction of being the Chef of the Month for August 1999 and of being one of the very elite top ten Chefs in South Florida 1999 by South Florida Gourmet. In 2001, Chef Weingarten was also named as one of the top Seven Hotel Chef’s in South Florida. Chef Weingarten has also recently been selected to kick off the “Year of the Women in the culinary Arts” program at Johnson & Whales as a part of their Distinguished Visiting Chef Series.
Chef Weingarten can often be seen whirling around her dining room with a row of fine pearls swinging at her neck, seeking reactions and comments to what she describes as her “New World fusion confusion” cuisine. She derives as much pleasure from watching the patron’s ecstasy as they eat as she does in cooking the dishes that induce it.
Disclaimer
All events, prices, personalities, performances, venues, dates and times subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges. No one under 21 will be admitted. The Key West Food and Wine Festival urges all adults to consume alcoholic products responsibly.
