August Festival Includes Best in Western Cuisine, Fine Wines, Cooking Demos, Craft Brews and Artisanal Spirits
ANGEL FIRE, NM - (June 27, 2017) - Angel Fire RV Resort (https://angelfirervresort.com), Northern New Mexico's premier year-round luxury camping destination, announced a new Food and Wine Roundup RV Package. The new package offers RVers a significant savings when they book a minimum 3-night RV Stay, which includes tickets to the first annual Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup (https://www.angelfirefoodandwine.com). The four-day western-themed food and wine event, sponsored by Texas-based A Bar N Ranch, will take place August 24 - 27, 2017.
“The Angel Fire Food and Wine RV Package is for any RVer who loves to combine their love of travel with their love for food, cooking, wine, and whiskey,” explains Kate Collins, director, Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup. “This event will offer a little bit of something for everyone. From mushroom hunts to chuck wagon cook-offs, reserve tastings, and private chef in-home dinners. Combining the Food and Wine Roundup event with our luxury RV accommodations and all the outdoor activities we offer, it's the perfect place to take in the last few days of summer.”
Angel Fire, located in the Southern Rockies of New Mexico, will host the event, which is expected to draw thousands of visitors, will offer guests the best in western cuisine, Wagyu beef, fine wines, craft brews, artisanal spirits and western hospitality with famous chefs, winemakers, brewers, and distillers.
The four-day festival will include guest chef luncheons, cooking demos by top chefs from around the country, Dutch oven cooking demos, Reserve tasting, a Grand tasting, wine seminars, mushroom hunts, guest chef dinners in private residences, silent auction events and artisanal spirits and craft brew tastings. Additionally, the event includes a Boot Scootin' BBQ and Western Dance at the Angel Fire Resort Country Club, a benefit golf tournament, a Bloody Good Bacon Brunch and Chuck Wagon Breakfast event.
Located at the foot of Carson National Forest, The Angel Fire RV Resort features sophisticated amenities. These include an upscale clubhouse with outdoor firepits, a hot tub, a spa-like bathhouse, leisure games, free wi-fi and on-site laundry set amongst a serene natural wonderland. Guests can enjoy the crisp, cool air and take in the views of Wheeler Peak, New Mexico's tallest mountain.
Along with any 3-night RV stay, the Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup RV Package offers over a $350-dollar savings and tickets to the following events:
2 Tickets to the Thursday afternoon cooking demonstration by guest chefs Wendy and John Hail, from Hail's Holy Smoked BBQ.
2 Tickets to the Thursday evening wine tasting by Black Mesa Winery.
2 Tickets to the Friday morning Cooking Demonstration with James Beard Foundation award-winner and cookbook author, Cheryl Alters Jamison, and Harry Soo, the head chef from Los Angeles-based Slap Yo' Daddy BBQ.
2 Tickets to the Saturday Grand Tasting
Chicago's, Meathead Goldwyn; Texan Cowboy Gourmet Chefs, Tom and Lisa Perini; and Harry Soo, Head Chef at LA-based Slap Yo Daddy BBQ are just a few of the attending chefs who will lead cooking demos.
Chef Goldwyn is the founder, barbecue whisperer, and hedonism evangelist behind www.amazingribs.com - one of the world's most popular outdoor cooking websites, and author of the New York Times Best Seller “Meathead. The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling.”
Chef Tom Perini and his wife, Lisa are best known for perfecting traditional cowboy cuisine for the past 40 years at Perini Ranch Steakhouse, a gourmet Cowboy restaurant located on the working ranch in Buffalo Gap, Texas.
Slap Yo Daddy BBQ is the love child of TLC's BBQ Pitmasters Head Cook Harry Soo. Slap Yo Daddy BBQ, one of the top-ranked Kansas City BBQ Society teams in America, was chosen among over 5,000 professional teams to appear on TLC's BBQ Pitmasters Season One in 2010. In the Season Finale, SYD stunned the nation by defeating all the teams in the show including two BBQ World Champions in the winner-take-all Rib Throwdown in Texas.
Angel Fire Resort's head chef from Elements Restaurant Kevin McCaffery will be serving the Boot Scootin' BBQ and the Bloody Good Bacon Brunch.
Additionally, nationally acclaimed artist, Jennifer Cavan and food writing expert, Cheryl Jamison will be at the four-day event.
· Santa Fe-based pastel artist, Jennifer Cavan, has been commissioned to produce an original piece of art for the event which will be auctioned at the Reserve Tasting, with proceeds benefitting Make-A-Wish New Mexico and The National Veterans Wellness and Healing Center of Angel Fire.
· Four-time James Beard Foundation award-winner, Cheryl Alters Jamison is a cookbook author and food journalist and the host of the weekly food radio show “Heating It Up.” She has written about Southwestern cooking for Saveur, Cooking Light, New Mexico Magazine and Bon Appétit. She will be on hand at the event to emcee cooking demonstrations and to sign copies of several of her cookbooks, including “Smoke and Spice,” "The Border Cookbook,” "The 50th Anniversary Rancho De Chimayó Cookbook,” "American Home Cooking,” and "Tasting New Mexico: Recipes Celebrating 100 Years of Distinctive Home Cooking.”
A full schedule of the festival, attending chefs, and tickets can be purchased herehttps://www.angelfirefoodandwine.com
For more information about the Angel Fire Food and Wine Roundup RV Package and to make a reservation https://angelfirervresort.com/packages/food-wine-roundup-rv-package/