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Interview with Michael Greenlee, Wine Director of The Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival, September 21 – 23, 2012

by David Dadekian August 24, 2012
written by David Dadekian

Michael GreenleeThe 7th Annual Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival returns on September 21st through 23rd and this year it has a new company, Plate + Decanter, producing the event with The Preservation Society of Newport County. To help coordinate the most important aspect of the Festival—the wine—long-time wine professional Michael Greenlee has been brought in as Wine Director for the event. Coincidentally, Greenlee was raised in Rhode Island and has ties to the restaurant industry here as well. “Al Forno is an old favorite,” Greenlee told Eat Drink RI. “I’ve known George [Germon] and Johanne [Killeen] since I was a kid, back when they had the restaurant [on Steeple Street] before they moved down to the waterfront.”

This year’s Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival features the return of Chef Jacques Pépin who will not only be presenting a cooking demonstration with his daughter Claudine during Saturday’s Grand Tasting, but is also hosting a brunch, paired with wines by Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, in the Gold Room at Marble House. It is the first year that Chef Emeril Lagasse will be appearing at the Festival, doing a cooking demonstration and signing books at Sunday’s Grand Tasting.

Also appearing for cooking demos are local favorites Chef Matt Jennings of Farmstead & La Laiterie, Chef Karsten Hart of Castle Hill Inn, Chef Jake Rojas of Tallulah on Thames and Chef Kevin King of Fluke Wine, Bar & Kitchen. Other cooking demos are being presented by Intermezzo magazine’s Roseann Tully and Chef Jonathan Cartwright of White Barn Inn Restaurant and Muse at Vanderbilt Grace. In addition to the now traditional Wine & Rosecliff event on Friday evening, there will be a Collectible Wine Dinner on Saturday night at The Elms.

There are also seven wine seminars being given by some of the most accomplished names in the wine industry: Jerome Hasenpflug, Suzanne Pride Bryan, Stuart Bryan, Leslie Sbrocco, Sam Ramic, Sandy Block, Laura Maniec and Jordan Mackay. The full schedule of events can be found at newportmansionswineandfood.org. These exclusive events and seminars have limited availability, so it is highly recommended to purchase tickets in advance online.

Greenlee discussed some of the more wine-centric events and seminars when he took time for a phone interview last week. He talked at length about what to look forward to at this year’s Food & Wine Festival. Greenlee’s excitement for the growth and development of the event, now in it’s seventh year, was palpable, even over the phone. It was truly an interview where we could ask very few questions and just let Greenlee go on speaking. His passion and commitment to putting on a great event was evident.  This sounds like the fall wine event not to be missed.

Eat Drink RI: Please tell us about your role with this year’s Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival.

Michael Greenlee: The Preservation Society [of Newport] has been producing this event for a while and had been looking for something a little bit of a change of pace, a little of a different look. They reached out to a couple of different groups. One of which is Plate + Decanter, which is a company that I’m working in conjunction with under the Preservation Society. We went up and met with the whole team at the Preservation Society and really talked about how to improve upon the event and continue to grow it. I grew up in Rhode Island so I have a connection to the community up there, to the sensibility to the people up there. In a unique way, there’s this summer colony [in Newport].

We wanted to take the Festival and improve upon it and make it a little more intimate: really put more wines under the tent, create the ability for winemakers to have more intimate relations with the consumers that are there, to help better build the sort of relationships where they can capitalize on them later. People will remember them being at a seminar, being under the tent, being at Wine & Rosecliff, being part of the Collectible Wine Dinner. Help them [the wineries] create a memorable experience to create customers. Making the sort of strategy that if the winemakers and the wineries are happy, and successful, and participating, then the consumers that come will have an equally richer more intimate experience with the wineries.

We started by taking a look at the list of the people that have participated in the past, going through it and honoring those relationships that the Preservation Society has had over the years with those wineries, and increasing the talent a little bit by bringing in wineries that are part of my fold, or relationships that I have, or personal connections in the wine business, whether domestic or international. And starting to look at opportunities in 2012 where we can . . . curate a really high-end collection of wineries under the tent and really focus the event back on wineries. Still create a place in the tent for the spirits, but a lesser role in the future than they had in the past. Really give those spirits brands an opportunity to shine and focus them in things like Wine & Rosecliff and other ancillary events. So that it [the Grand Tasting] really becomes a high-end wine and food experience.

EDRI: What have you added new this year?

MG: With the Collectible Wine Dinner the idea was to create something high-end that would attract a higher-end consumer and also help to connect to the summer colony. So that’s something that we added this year. We’re doing a dinner for 40 people with 8 wineries at The Elms. We’re putting a winery representative or winemaker at every table so that people attending really get an opportunity to interface with the winery owners or principles to really understand more, get a richer experience for the consumer. Bringing in someone like Jacques Pépin to do a brunch, and bringing in a champagne producer to really pair [with the brunch] to create a celebratory brunch experience prior to the grand tasting. We’re curating it for 20 people—small, intimate, experiential.

That’s some of the things that we’re looking to do this year that are a little bit different. For me it’s like a restaurant experience or the Dean & DeLuca curating experience. [Greenlee was Dean & DeLuca’s Executive Vice President of Wine, see his complete bio.] Everything in the store at Dean & DeLuca was hand-picked by someone who had a tremendous level of expertise in their field so [consumers] didn’t have to wonder [about products]. We’re creating an event where there are 100 really well selected, hand-chosen wineriers under the grand tasting tent that represent a really broad palate, and give people the opportunity to have really great high-end experiential time.

This event is amazing. The raw materials are there. The clientele is there. The spaces are ridiculous, these beautiful, historic facilities. I’ve attended it in the past and it’s always been a really nice event. The idea is how do we make it nicer? What do the clientele want after doing this for so many years? The buyer today is a different buyer. The attendees have different needs, wants and desires. The millenials that are coming in, the 25, 30, 35 year-old people that are really passionate about wine and food. They’re very experiential. They like experiences, they like to discover things on their own. They don’t want Parker to tell them what’s good. They want to find out what’s good on their own. So you have to create a different environment.

You’ve got to also create opportunities for people that want to learn about wine that don’t know very much. There are neophytes. They’re very excited about it, very passionate, but really are still learning that Chardonnay is a white grape and Cabernet [Sauvignon] is a red grape, that Cabernet and Merlot are different and why. And you should be able to produce something that gives them the opportunity to grow at the event and learn something. But then you’ve also got a group of people that know a lot about wine. What sort of opportunities do you give them? [So there’s] the Collectible Wine Dinner. “I know a lot about wine, what’ve you got for me?”

EDRI: Can you tell us about some of the wine seminars you’ve helped put together?

MG: We’ve got some seminars like Leslie Sbrocco with “Thirsty Girl’s Wine 101.” Very basic, very simple, very introductory, but really, really great. She’s super dynamic she’s got tons of energy. She does a really great job of “this is the way you go through a tasting” and “how do you pace yourself” and all that sort of stuff, so people can have a really rich experience. Then you have someone like Jerome Hasenpflug, a Rhodes scholar, he got his PhD at Cambridge, a Masters from Harvard in History and Anthropology, leading us through Burgundy. Who better? I had to cut him back from 18 wines to 12! You could spend a lifetime on just studying Burgundy. So how do we give somebody that wants to understand it better an opportunity to do that?

Laura Maniec, a Master Sommelier, lives in New York and co-owns Corkbuzz Wine Studio, ran all of [B.R. Guest Restaurant Group’s Wine and Spirits Director] for years. [She’s] the youngest person to get her Master Sommelier in the history of the Master Sommelier program. [Laura’s] leading a champagne seminar, [“Bubbles for Breakfast”], on 10 a.m. on Sunday. That’s where I’ll be! Jordan Mackay is doing a seminar “NXNW: New by Northwest” wines, an area that’s really emerging and really dynamic and really exciting. Jordan has been writing for The New York Times and Food & Wine magazine and wrote Secrets of the Sommeliers with Rajat Parr and won a James Beard [Foundation] award for his writing. [Jordan’s] coming and talking about an appellation that’s really interesting and emerging and gets the geek factor going a little bit. People who really want to learn something new about a place that’s not Napa Valley. I’ve been to Napa Valley. I know all about Napa Valley. This is about something different and unique.

EDRI: You sound very excited about the event.

MG: We’ve got lots of great ideas. This is 2012. Wait until ’13, ’14, ’15. It’ll all be really, really fun to watch this thing evolve and grow. It’s really fun to be part of.

EDRI: How do you feel about an event like this in Newport?

MG: This is our first year producing it. We’re trying to engage the local community on the restaurant level and on the wine distributor/supplier level as well. Weekends are still very busy in Newport into late September. The Preservation Society has always been really excited about the fact that of the 3,500 or 4,000 attendees, there are lots of fresh faces. It’s not the people that they normally see at the rest of their summer events. Saturday we get a lot of out-of-town [attendees], a little broader demographic, and then Sunday they tend to be more local. More local Rhode Island people, more people coming down from Massachusetts. So it’s a bit of a mix. We’re starting to watch that happen this year with ticket sales. And this is our invitation to the summer colony to stick around a couple extra weeks and come support this event with us.

EDRI: So what’s your connection to Rhode Island?

MG: I grew up in North Kingstown and graduated high school there. My parents moved away when I went to college but I really consider Rhode Island my home. All my close friends are there. I go back two or three times a year. For Amedeo‘s business [Greenlee’s wine consulting company] the accounting team is still in Rhode Island. It’s an excuse to go up and spend some time. I spent a good part of my youth there. I brought Marissa [Ain], the owner of Plate + Decanter, up for a meeting in February. On the way out I took the local road down through Narragansett to go eat lobster and clamcakes at Champlin’s and I was disappointed it was closed. Champlin’s is always on my cruise when I’m in town.

Last couple of visits I’ve been checking out some of the new spots. Jeff [Callaghan, co-owner of Fluke Wine, Bar & Bistro] is an old friend of mine so I went there the last time I was in town. It’s sort of surprising to see how much even downtown Newport has changed since my time there. I spent a lot of time in Newport when I was a kid. I used to work on sailboats and race sailboats. So it was a big part of my youth. There’s good food in downtown Providence. It used to be you went to Federal Hill and had the Italian red sauce spots. I’m really excited to go to Aquidneck Lobster Bar, so that’s high on my list of things to do when I come up for a site visit. I ate at Tallulah. It’s exciting. There was none of this stuff when I grew up.

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News Bites: La Laiterie, RI Food Bank, Asterisk, Temple Downtown and Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro

by David Dadekian June 28, 2012
written by David Dadekian

La LaiterieFive current news releases—Eat Drink RI is not the source for these items—please follow any links for more information.

La Laiterie

PATIO POURS

La Laiterie Welcomes Summer with Patio “Parties” Featuring Boutique Wines, Housemade Charcuterie and Farmstead Cheeses

WHAT: With a New England bistro (La Laiterie) and attached artisanal cheese/gourmet foods shop (Farmstead) tucked away in Providence’s Wayland Square, Matt and Kate Jennings have been churning out nationally-recognized rustic farmhouse cuisine and homespun baked goods for almost 10 years. A two-time nominee for a James Beard Foundation award, Matt joins his wife Kate in the kitchen, creating dishes that have received praise from Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, Travel + Leisure and Saveur, as well as the Cooking Channel’s “Unique Eats” TV program.

This summer, whether you’re in Providence to see why Travel + Leisure readers recently named it “America’s Best Burger City,” or you’re here to experience the sparkling downtown art installation known as WaterFire, a stop at La Laiterie for Patio Pours is a casual and accessible way to experience the Jennings’s incredible dedication and commitment to honest, seasonal, handmade food.

Pull up a chair at the sidewalk patio and enjoy a night of:

Unusual Pours of Wine

Sample a glass from La Laiterie’s unusual and small-batch producer wines, most of which are rarely available outside the bottle. A few examples of these hard-to-come-by-the-glass wines are Stefano Massone Masera Gavi, Valdesil Montenovo Godello and Glatzer Blaufrankisch.

Housemade Charcuterie

See why Matt Jennings is not only a three-time Cochon 555 champ, but also considered a “renowned meat artist” by theWashington Post. His housemade charcuterie includes unique creations such as Pig Ear Bacon, Hoof & Snout Terrine, and Fennel & Preserved Orange Cotechino.

Farmstead’s Curated Cheese Selection

From spirit-washed originals like the Drunken Providence (a Gouda-style cheese from Narragansett Creamery that is washed with Thomas Tew Rum from Newport Distilling Co. and aged for two months in Farmstead’s street-level cheese cave), to the imported Vento D’Estate (an Italian sheep and goat’s milk cheese washed in prosecco and wrapped in grasses, herbs and wildflowers), adjacent cheese shop Farmstead carries a wide variety of cheeses curated by Owner/Master Cheesemonger Matt Jennings and his team of three cheesemongers.

WHEN: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
5 – 7 PM
Starting June 12, 2012

WaterFire Saturdays
5 – 7 PM
June 9 and 23, 2012
July 21, 2012
August 18, 2012

COST: $10/person for one glass of your choice of featured wine, one featured cheese and one featured charcuterie item.

WHERE: 186 Wayland Avenue
Providence, RI
(401) 274-7177

WEBSITE: www.farmsteadinc.com

TWITTER: @MatthewJennings

Rhode Island Community Food Bank

2012 Summer Food Drive

June 20 – August 31 ~ Goal: 150,000 LBS

To make a financial donation to our Summer Food Drive, click here.

Summer is an especially hard time for families with children. In Rhode Island, 49,000 children are eligible to receive free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches. For many of these children, there is no meal program to replace those they would have received at school.

The Summer Food Drive helps struggling families during the summer months and enables the Food Bank to continue providing food to emergency food programs across the state. We are calling on the community to help us meet the high demand by collecting 150,000 pounds of food by the end of August.

Join the effort by dropping off food donations to the Food Bank’s facility at 200 Niantic Avenue, Providence, any weekday between 8 am and 5 pm. If you would like to organize a food drive in your workplace or neighborhood, we can provide posters and boxes to support your collection. For more information, contact Farris Maxwell at (401) 942-6325.

Asterisk

Thames Street Landmark Asterisk Renovates Restaurant and Redesigns Menu

~ Experience the lively atmosphere of Thames Street and the action of the kitchen while relaxing in the beautiful, newly renovated dining room and outdoor space.~

Known for its sophisticated bar and fresh take on traditional dishes, Asterisk on lower Thames Street in Newport has just completed a renovation that brings the dining experience closer to the rough luxe spirit of this part of Newport. In addition to an interior redesign, chef-owner John Bach-Sorensen has also recreated the menu for the 100-seat restaurant, focusing on the freshest ingredients available for his cuisine.

Established in 1995, Asterisk has become a fixture at 599 Thames Street. Situated in a former industrial building, Asterisk incorporates the relaxed, rich texture of the mechanic’s garage it once was, with twelve foot glass garage doors that open to the street during the season. A new palette of colors draws light deep into the interior, with reclaimed industrial light fixtures and raw wood throughout. The renovation was directed by Nick Heywood, a young designer with degrees in Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design and experience in the U.S. and Colombia.

Through the open kitchen design, diners can watch their food being prepared by Chef Bach-Sorensen and his skilled team through horizontal openings that run between the dining and kitchen spaces. For those that like to experience the bustle of the kitchen, a new large chef’s table has been incorporated, which allows diners to experience the refined techniques of the chefs.

“The evolution of Asterisk has inspired me to reexamine everything,” said Bach-Sorensen. “My focus is on technique and incorporating lots of flavors. We specialize in the freshest available local seafood and produce and we’ve always been known for our hand-cut beef filets.”

With attention to detail on each plate, a sampling of new menu items includes:

Grilled Swordfish Sandwich with roasted garlic and sundried tomato aioli
Grilled Seafood Pizza with shrimp, mussels, roasted pepper, olives, capers, and anchovies
Belgian Drunken Beef with braised tender steak with endive, sweet onions, potato gratin, & Belgian beer sauce
Crispy Salmon served with mushroom asparagus orzo risotto and cabernet sauce
Peking Style Duck with mandarin pancakes, cucumber, carrots, scallions and hoisin sauce
Grilled Tenderloin over soft polenta served with Bleu cheese-mushroom wine sauce
Osso Buco Ravioli with garlic cream and veal glace

New signature cocktails have also been added to the menu, including:

The Belmont Bloody with vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, horseradish, black pepper, beef jerky, stuffed olive, smoked oyster, pickle, and asparagus spear
The Frenchie Bloody with vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon mustard, Blue Cheese olive, pickle, asparagus, and green bean
Basil – Lime Gimlet with vodka, basil infused simple syrup, fresh lime juice served straight up
Rhode Island Red with silver tequila, Chambord, lemon juice, ginger beer, fresh raspberries, served straight up
The Sparkling Pomegranate with champagne, pomegranate liquor & juice, lemon twist
The Nevin’s Cocktail with bourbon, grapefruit juice, Apry, lemon juice, bitters

Chef Bach-Sorensen first visited the United States from Denmark in 1979 as a high school exchange student in Michigan. His family owned hotels and restaurants and he was given a chance to apprentice with the Haeberlin family when he was young, who own the famous Auberge de I’ll in France. While Chef Bach-Sorensen has Danish roots, his food is influence by many other great chefs from all over the world, including Marcus Samuelsson, Thomas Keller, Alastair Little of Great Britain, and Pierre Koffman of France.

Asterisk is open for dinner seven nights a week beginning at 5 p.m. and offers brunch on Saturdays and Sundays beginning at noon. Reservations are recommended through the new website at: www.asterisknewport.com or by calling: 401-841-8833.

Temple Downtown Restaurant and Lounge

CRANSTON RESIDENT NAMED NEW GENERAL MANAGER OF TEMPLE DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

Vincent Lo Buono of Cranston has been named the new general manager of Temple Downtown Restaurant & Lounge, 120 Francis Street in Providence.

Previously, Lo Buono was a key player in Todd English Enterprises since 2002. He was the general manager of Tuscany, a Todd English property at the Mohegan Sun Casino, for eight years. Since 2009, Lo Buono was director of Boston operations and responsible for the daily operations at five Todd English restaurants: Kingfish Hall, Olives, Figs in Charlestown, Figs in Beacon Hill, and Isabelle’s Curly Cakes. His most recent achievement was the reopening of Olives, a 200-seat restaurant in Charlestown.

As part of the Todd English corporate team, Lo Buono opened Ca Va Brasserie at the Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square, New York City; The Plaza Food Hall at the Plaza Hotel in New York City; TE P.U.B. at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas; and Wild Olives in Boca Raton, Florida.

“We look forward to Vincent joining our team,” said Peter Karpinski, co-founder and COO of Sage Restaurant Group. “His proven strategic execution and leadership abilities are sure to add great value to Temple Downtown in this role.”

Lo Buono graduated from Rhode Island College with a degree in business management. He resides in Cranston with his wife. Lo Buono enjoys cooking, making wine, traveling, and spending time with family and friends. An avid soccer player, he also enjoys sporting events.

Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro

MEET ART CHAMBERLAND, GM & BEVERAGE DIRECTOR

We are thrilled to introduce our new General Manager & Beverage Director. Art joined the Tastings team just over a week ago. Originally from Chicopee, MA he began his restaurant career at age 16 for a local, family owned business. After four years at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he bartended full time while receiving his BA in psychology, he moved to Boston to pursue his first restaurant management position. After a little over a year in Boston an opportunity presented itself in Southern California and he made the move cross country. After a couple of years in the night club industry he accepted a GM position with a small Gastro Pub concept. He helped build the training and beverage programs for the pubs as they went from three units to twelve in the span of just four years. He opened and managed pubs in Las Vegas, Chicago and New Jersey. The pub background has helped to teach Art about the meaning of hospitality and making customers feel truly at home. During his time with the pubs he as instrumental in developing very successful programs and events to give back to local charities, which he is excited to continue here in Foxborough.

With the birth of their daughter, Art and his wife Sarah returned to Massachusetts. After a brief hiatus away from the restaurant business, Art was selected to be the General Manager here at Tastings. He is looking forward to developing relationships with existing guests as well as reaching out to new guests and making them a part of our big, extended family!

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Celebrate Earth Day with a local Earth Dinner to benefit Chefs Collaborative

by David Dadekian April 18, 2012
written by David Dadekian

The Earth DinnerThis week a number of Rhode Island area restaurants are participating in Earth Dinner events. The Dinners are a series of events sponsored by Chefs Collaborative and Organic Valley to promote local, sustainable and organic foods. Over 100 restaurants around the country are participating in this event and donating a portion of their proceeds to help Chefs Collaborative’s work of “changing the sustainable food landscape using the power of connections, education and responsible buying decisions.” Organic Valley will provide a matching contribution up to $10,000.

The local restaurants participating are:

      • Gracie’s – details below
      • La Laiterie at Farmstead – all week
      • Local 121 – details below
      • New Rivers
      • Nick’s on Broadway – Thursday, April 19 & Friday, April 20, contact the restaurant for details
      • Tallulah on Thames – Earth Dinner on Sunday, April 22
      • Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro – all week and Dinner on Sunday, April 22, details below

Below is additional information on the dinners at Gracie’s, Local 121 and Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro. La Laiterie at Farmstead is providing Earth Dinner specials every night this week during regular service hours, so ask when you dine there. Please contact the other restaurants for more information. For a complete list of participating restaurants around the country, please see the Chefs Collaborative site.

Gracie’s Earth Dinner will feature a unique menu created by Executive Chef Matthew Varga. On Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21, Gracie’s will offer guests an Earth Day menu to select from in addition to its spring menu. The prix fixe menu ($40 per guest) will be broken down into three courses with one choice for each course. “The Gracie’s team is always thrilled to be involved with this initiative as it is a natural extension of all that we already do to celebrate local foods and their vibrant flavors and nurture a more sustainable food supply,” said Ellen Gracyalny, owner of Gracie’s. “Taking part in the ‘Earth Dinner’ event is also an expression of our appreciation for local farmers and purveyors who provide us with the fresh ingredients we insist on using in our menu offerings.” Call 401-272-7811 for reservations.

Local 121 is hosting an Earth Dinner on Wednesday, April 18 to celebrate with our patrons and partners our commitment to local, sustainable and organic food. Join Chef Dave Johnson at the Chef’s Table along with honored guests Patrick Beck from New England Grass Fed and Captain Rich Cook of the Local Catch for great food and a good time sharing the bounty of our pastures and waters in support of the important work of the Chefs Collaborative. We are joining over 100 restaurants around the country hosting similar dinners supported by Organic Valley and the Chefs Collaborative. Dinner specials will include housemade rabbit sausage with lentils, pasture raised veal loin chops, grilled stuffed squid, oysters and the first spring lettuces from Scratch Farm. Call 401-274-2121 for reservations.

Tastings Wine Bar & Bistro will be having our yearly Earth Dinner to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, April 22. In addition to offering a 3 or 5-course prix fixe on Sunday, we will be offering the 3-course prix fixe menu option Wednesday, April 18 through Saturday, April 21. 3-course menu $45. 5-course menu $60. View the menu online. Call 508-203-9463 for reservations.

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Rhode Island chefs invade Montreal: up-to-the-minute #chefsincanada tweets and Instagram photos

by David Dadekian April 9, 2012
written by David Dadekian
nicksonbroadway Instagram photo

nicksonbroadway Instagram photo

If you love food and you’re an active Twitter or Instagram user you are probably well aware of #chefsincanada. For the third year in a row a group of Rhode Island chefs—Matthew Gennuso of Chez Pascal, Matt Jennings of Farmstead & La Laiterie, Ed Reposa of Thee Red Fez, Jake Rojas of Tallulah on Thames, Beau Vestal of New Rivers and Derek Wagner of Nick’s on Broadway—have taken an exploratory eating expedition to Montreal, Canada. During the trip five of the chefs tweet their adventures and four of them post photos to Instagram as well.

Because not everyone uses these services, but everyone should get the chance to see what the best of Rhode Island’s culinary world are immersing themselves in, Eat Drink RI has installed a couple of apps to share the details with you. The Twitter feed below grabs the twelve most current tweets containing the #chefsincanada hashtag and the seven most recent photos in the Instagram feeds of Jennings, Rojas, Vestal and Wagner are below as well.

These apps will refresh every few minutes so you can reload or return to this page often for the latest posts and photos. I highly suggest you follow all the chefs on Twitter and Instagram, not just for these few days while they are traveling together, but all year-round. You can click on their names in the feed app below to follow.

 

Instagram feed of Matt Jennings matthewjennings (latest seven images, click for larger versions): [instapress userid=”matthewjennings” piccount=”7″ size=”90″]

Instagram feed of Jake Rojas newportchef (latest seven images, click for larger versions): [instapress userid=”newportchef” piccount=”7″ size=”90″]

Instagram feed of Beau Vestal newriversbeau (latest seven images, click for larger versions): [instapress userid=”newriversbeau” piccount=”7″ size=”90″]

Instagram feed of Derek Wagner nicksonbroadway (latest seven images, click for larger versions): [instapress userid=”nicksonbroadway” piccount=”7″ size=”90″]

 

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