SBWFF 2010: Tribute Dinner sponsored by Bank of America honoring Daniel Boulud

Food & Wine’s editor-in-chief Dana Cowin, Daniel Boulud, and Top Chef's Gail Simmons at the Tribute Dinner
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This year's South Beach Wine and Food Festival honored chef Daniel Boulud at its tribute dinner at the Loew's hotel.

Super chef Daniel Boulud has won numerous prestigious awards and accolades including Food & Wine’s Best New Chef Award in 1988, the James Beard Award for Best Chef of New York City in 1992, the James Beard Foundation’s “Outstanding Chef of the Year” in 1994 and “Outstanding Restaurateur” in 2006.

A spectacular dinner prepared by some of the top culinary stars including Paul Bartolotta, BARTOLOTTA Ristorante Di Mare (Las Vegas, NV), Michael Laiskonis, Le Bernardin (New York, NY) Nobu Matsuhisa, Nobu, Gordon Maybury, Loews Miami Beach (South Beach, FL), Eric Ripert, Le Bernardin (New York, NY), and Claude Troisgros, Blue Door at Delano (South Beach, FL).

The evening was hosted by Top Chef's Gail Simmons and also in attendance French ambassador to the United States, Pierre Vimont.

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SBWFF 2010: Perrier-Jouët BubbleQ Hosted by Emeril Lagasse

Ingrid Hoffman and Guy Fieri enjoying BubbleQ
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The Perrier-Jouët was flowing at the this year's South Beach Wine and Food Festival's staple event, BubbleQ.
Some of the best chef prepared America's pastimem, barbecue. Emeril LaGasse hosted this years fete. Other chef's that participated included Loew's chef Gordon Maybury, Norman Van Aken, Allen Susser, Todd English, Michelle Berstein, The Forge's Chef Dewey LoSasso and even Ft. Lauderdale's Steve Martorano, although not bbq, prepared his famous meatballs in Italian bread. Delicious!!

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SBWFF 2010: Amstel Light Burger Bash Hosted by Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray with Jake Linzinmeir
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Burger fans came out to the 4th annual Amstel Light Burger Bash to try the best renditions from top chefs including Bobby Flay, Rocco DiSpirito, Masaharu Morimoto, among others.

The annual South Beach Wine and Food Festival event hosted by Food Network's Rachael Ray. Altough many good burgers to sample, our favorites were Michael's Genuine bacon cheeseburger (Which won best burger and a burger we eat quite frequent) and we also liked author of the South Beach Diet, Dr. Arthur Agatston's turkey burger, with goat cheese on a flaxseed whole-wheat bun. Yum!

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SBWFF 2010: Graffigna wines at W South Beach

Pernod Ricard hosted the Graffigna wine luncheon at the W South Beach. Chef Mark Vidal from Solea and Chef Mauro Colagreco of Mirazur did honors.

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