PRESS RELEASECape Cod Life to Launch Food & Wine Festival Hyannis, Mass. (November 29, 2007) -- Cape Cod Life Publications will celebrate the Cape’s distinguished culinary world with the inaugural “Cape Cod Life Food & Wine Festival” from June 1 through June 4, 2008. The four day festival will showcase the region’s finest chefs and restaurants through a series of wine dinners and “cultural” happy hours. More than forty restaurants from Provincetown to Bourne will hold dinners each evening highlighting their chef’s best. Joining the restaurants will be local and international winemakers who will offer pairings of spectacular wines from around the world. Additionally, Cultural Happy Hours will be held on June 2, 3 & 4 in venues that capture the area’s richness in art, history and nature. Guests will sample hors d’oeuvres and fine wines while enjoying art and music in three cultural venues – the Highfield Hall in Falmouth (June 2), the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster (June 3), and the Wellfleet Harbors Actors Theater in Wellfleet (June 4). The festival will kick off with the Grand Opening Tasting at the splendid Rectrix Aerodrome in Hyannis on Memorial Day – Sunday June 1st from 3-6 p.m. The event will include local cuisine, wines from around the world, presentations from local artists and musicians, and cooking demonstrations from an elite group of celebrity chefs representing both Cape Cod and Boston. Chef Gabriel Frasca of Nantucket’s renowned Straight Wharf restaurant will lead an iron chef style cook-off against other top chefs to be announced soon. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the Institute for Hospitality and Culinary Studies at Cape Cod Community College. “We’re thrilled to create an event that will highlight so many of the Cape’s top restaurants and chefs, along with some of our most cherished cultural institutions,” said Cape Cod Life President and CEO Russell Piersons. “This is truly a Cape-wide celebration as it will include restaurants and historical venues from Provincetown to Bourne.” Jim Miller, Director of the College’s Zammer Hospitality Institute, noted the College’s great pleasure in being selected as a beneficiary, “We try very, very hard to do all we can to help bring a more sustainable economy to this entire region – one that feeds all of us as we feed each other in every possible way. Making local products and cuisine the centerpiece for this event, is something we are proud to strongly support, as we are very grateful that our students will be the key beneficiaries.” Restaurants and wineries interested in participating should contact Justine Alten at With events such as the Cape Cod Life Food & Wine Festival, Cape Cod Life Publications continues its mission to celebrate the unique lifestyle on the Cape and Islands. Cape Cod Life Publications includes: Cape Cod Life, Cape & the Islands Home, Cape Cod Life Arts Edition, Martha’s Vineyard Life, Nantucket Life, the Cape Cod Life Home and Garden Expo, and the Cape Cod Life Boat and Recreation Expo.
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