Davide Pugliese, owner and executive chef of Brandywine Bay Restaurant and Capriccio di Mare in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, will be attending the eighth annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami, Florida.
Davide will be showcasing his culinary talents at the Whole Foods Market Grand Tasting Village on February 21, 2009.
The four-day epicurean festival, which kicks off on February 19 expects to attract around 6,000 visitors, participants and celebrity chefs each day.
Davide will be at the Brandywine Bay Restaurant table located in one of the American Express Grand Tasting tents to be set up ocean side of Miami's hip and lively South Beach. Serving 3,000 tastings of a Caribbean interpretation of an Italian dish, visitors to the Brandywine table can sample Brasato dei Caraibi which uses cuts of Certified Angus Beef Eye of round braised in a spicy scotch bonnet pepper sauce and served with a cilantro aioli. The ingredients are being provided by Buckhead Beef® of Florida, a meat specialty company that distributes along the Eastern seaboard and into the Caribbean, and Merchants Market, a Leeward and Virgin Islands food distribution network originating in Florida.
The dish will be prepped a couple of days in advance of the show by Davide who has enlisted the help of two culinary friends: Chef Mike Morphew, director of culinary education at the Culinary Institute of Virginia and Eric Sywak, general manager of Supa Valu in the British Virgin Islands.
"I am really excited about this festival. Participating even on one day is a big commitment and will be intensive but it is a tremendous opportunity to meet the movers and shakers of the culinary world. Hopefully taking part in this will help to mark the BVI and Brandywine Bay Restaurant on the gastronome's map," Davide said.
The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival is a national, star-studded, destination event boasting the world's most renowned wine and spirits producers, chefs and culinary personalities.
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