The Taste Trekkers Food Tourism Conference begins next Friday, September 21st. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, Eat Drink RI has received a discount code for $15 off a ticket to Saturday’s events at the Providence Biltmore. The code to use is eatdrinkri or you can follow this link to purchase tickets and the code will be entered for you.

For all the information on this three-day Food Tourism Conference, please read the below release with all of the event information.

Nation’s First Food Tourism Conference, Taste Trekkers, Coming to Providence
Friday September 20th – Sunday September 22nd, 2013
Providence is set to host the nation’s first food tourism conference, Taste Trekkers, from Friday, September 20th through Sunday, September 22nd, 2013. The conference will unite travelers with a specific passion for food and culinary adventures. Tickets start at $65 and are available now at http://tastetrekkers2013.eventbrite.com.
The three-day conference will take place in downtown Providence, the city ranked #1 for Food/Drink/Restaurants in Travel + Leisure’s “America’s Favorite Cities 2012.” The weekend will feature keynote speaker, Matt Jennings of Providence’s Farmstead, Inc. In addition to being a two-time James Beard Foundation Best Chef Northeast nominee, Jennings is also known as “Providence’s Pied Piper of Cheese” and “Prince of Pork” for his knowledge of cheese and charcuterie., Jennings has also earned national recognition as one of “Most Sustainable Chefs in America,” in part due to the development of Providence’s Trace and Trust program.
Additional highlights of the conference include:
Breakout sessions, featuring topics:
From Farm and Fisherman to Table
New England Lamb Butcher Demo
Peruvian Cerviche and Causa Limena
Taste the Terroir of American Honey
Dry-cured for Three Generations: A Family’s Journey in Charcuterie
Durham, North Carolina: Integrity Tastes Good
Memphis: BBQ and Beyond
New England: Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum!
Before there were Food Trucks, there were Lunch Wagons
The Chocolate of Madagascar
The Story of Vermont Ice Cider: A Tasting and Pairing
Panel Discussion: Food Tripping: Culinary Tourism Today and Tomorrow, hosted by Gail Ciampa, Food Editor of the Providence Journal. Featuring speakers:
Danielle Brodhagen, Director of Product Development, Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance
Jose Duarte, Owner and Chef, Taranta Restaurant
Cindy Salvato, President & Owner, Savoring Rhode Island
Joyce Weinberg, Owner, City Food Tours
Meghan Sheridin, Executive Director, Vermont Fresh Network
Sai Viswanath, Chef, DeWolf Tavern
Tasting Pavilion at the Providence Biltmore Hotel featuring regional purveyors including:
American Honey Tasting Society
American Lamb Board
Coastal Extreme Brewing Company
Ravenous Brewing
Food Trucks In
Johnson and Wales Univeristy
Melting Pot Food Tours
The Mystery Café
Narraganett Creamery
And many more!
Culinary Tours on Sunday morning with Rhode Island’s Cindy Salvato, Newport Gourmet’s Mike Martini and A Taste of Rhode Island through the historic neighborhoods of Providence.
Food Truck Brunch on Sunday featuring some of Providence’s most popular Food Trucks, including:
Acacia Café Food Truck
Clam Jammers
Go-Spresso
Mootzadeli
Noble Knots
Panino Express Mobile Cuisine
Portu-Galo
Rocket Fine Street Food
Radish
Fugo
Tickets for Taste Trekkers are on-sale now at http://tastetrekkers2013.eventbrite.com. For more information, please visit http://tastetrekkers.com/conference.

Taste Trekkers Food Tourism Conference

Readers of this site know how nationally renowned food and drink is in Rhode Island. Our chefs, restaurants and bartenders are recognized annually by the James Beard Foundation, Food & Wine nominates chefs and pastry chefs on their “People’s Best New” lists each year, Bon Appetit chose The Dorrance as one of the best new restaurants in the country last year and then there’s all the culinary love that Travel + Leisure heaps upon the capital city, including ranking it #1 for Food / Drink / Restaurants in their “America’s Favorite Cities 2012” poll.

We here at Eat Drink RI are showing our love and passion for the local culinary “scene” as we prepare for the Eat Drink RI Festival, Rhode Island’s First-Ever Three-Day Local Food Celebration on April 19 – 21.

So it makes sense that when social dining group Mystery Meet’s founder Seth Resler decided to plan a Food Tourism Conference, “the nation’s first event for people who plan their vacations around food,” he thought Providence would be the perfect food town to launch his event. Resler gives this information about Taste Trekkers:

The Taste Trekkers Food Tourism Conference is the nation’s first event designed for people who plan their vacations around food. This exciting will bring together hundreds of chefs, farmers, food bloggers, travel writers, culinary students and other passionate foodies as it showcases regional cuisines from around the country. The event will feature a cocktail reception, a tasting pavilion, a food truck court, and group dinners all around the city of Providence, Rhode Island. Matt Jennings, the celebrated chef behind Farmstead in Providence, will deliver the conference’s keynote address. The event will be held September 20-22, 2013. Find more information at TasteTrekkers.com.

To help fund the beginnings of this new conference, Resler has turned to Kickstarter to raise the needed capital. So that’s where you come in with helping launch this fun and exciting food event. Take a look at Taste Trekkers Kickstarter video:

Resler is no stranger to Providence, having graduated from Brown and lived in the area for several years. His full bio follows:

Seth Resler is the founder of the social dining group Mystery Meet. His event production and marketing work has been heralded by The Boston Globe, Radio and Records Magazine, WBUR-FM, and Boston.com. A Brown graduate, his work earned a Citizen Citation from the Mayor of Providence and was named ‘Best of 2009’ by Rhode Island Monthly. Visit SethResler.com.

Please head on over to the Taste Trekkers Food Tourism Conference Kickstarter page and pledge some money to get this great idea off the ground and into Providence, one of the best food destinations in the world.

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