Bob Blumer, The Surreal Gourmet +

Rob Feenie, Vancouver’s Iron Chef

Food Network Television Superstars

Headline a cavalcade of chefs and cookbook authors at the next

EAT! Vancouver, The Everything Food + Cooking Festival™

May 26, 27 & 28, 2006 at BC Place Stadium

Vancouver, BC, May 17, 2006- Executive Event Production is proud to announce the fourth annual EAT! Vancouver, The Everything Food + Cooking Festival™, Western Canada’s largest consumer food + cooking event.

Throughout the three days of the show The Food Network Canada Celebrity Stage will feature TV celebrities Bob Blumer, The Surreal Gourmet on Food Network Canada; Rob Feenie, host of New Classics with Chef Rob Feenie on Food Network Canada and owner of Vancouver’s celebrated Lumiere Restaurant and Feenie’s Grill. Bob and Rob will be joined on stage by notable Vancouver chefs, cookbook authors and chefs from across the country.

Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together once again for a three day public extravaganza at BC Place Stadium.  EAT! Vancouver encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and intense culinary competitions, diverse food , beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities.

Television personality and author, Rose Reisman will present her  Art of eating and living well on the Terasen Gas Healthy Living Stage. Joining Rose to demonstrate a new approach to cooking and eating will be Celebrity Chef Wan, the Asian Food Network Television’s resident chef, direct from Malaysia.

Visitors will watch the excitement of heated competitions at the ‘Iron Chef’ style Citytv’s  Master Chef Competition, and the EAT! Vancouver Ice Carving Competition. The Canadian Festival of Barbecue + Chili Competition returns once again with 25 teams from across North America competing.

 Come for lunch and stay for dinner!  EAT! Vancouver has teamed with the Union Gospel Mission in a joint initiative: the Bite of Vancouver restaurant pavilion.  The chefs of favourite Lower Mainland restaurants will serve up appetizer portions of their signature recipes. For a nominal charge ($1.20 - $3) per item visitors will be able to savour the flavours of numerous eateries, with 50% of all sales going directly to UGM to help feed Vancouver’s hungry.

Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where visitors can sip and taste hundreds of different beverages.  Hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen, Vancouver’s Wine Diva, the Grapes and Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings by Garret Oliver, Brooklyn Brewery’s celebrated brewmaster, as well as by numerous local and regional beer and wine experts.

While at EAT! Vancouver, visitors will also enjoy shopping in the marketplace of nearly 200 exhibit booths. Producers, manufacturers, retailers and food artisans will showcase a wide assortment of unique products for eating, drinking, cooking, entertaining, and outfitting a kitchen. Exhibits will include everything from gourmet foods to kitchen accessories, and barbecues to beverages. Everything for a healthy, balanced life style!

EAT! Vancouver runs May 26, 27 & 28, 2006, at BC Place Stadium.

Show hours:  Fri, 2 pm to 9 pm; Sat, 11 am to 9 pm; and Sun, 11 am to 6 pm. 

For more information please visit our website:  www.eat-vancouver.com

For more information,  please contact us at:

info@eat-vancouver.com