Grilled Cheese & Great Wines With Laura Werlin - 10/14/11, 4:30p-5:45p, at L.A. LIVE (Downtown)

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Grilled Cheese & Great Wines With Laura Werlin

Grilled Cheese & Great Wines With Laura Werlin

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Taste the mouthwatering grilled cheese prepared with recipes from Laura Werlin’s latest book, Great Grilled Cheese, enjoy the wonderfully paired wines and take a stroll down memory lane with your favorite experience of this iconic comfort food.

Laura Werlin is one of the country's foremost authorities on cheese and is the award-winning author of four books on the subject. Her most recent book, James Beard award-nominated Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007), is the go-to guide for anyone with cheese questions including how to buy it, how to create successful cheese and wine pairings, how to store cheese and how to entertain and cook with cheese.

Laura has appeared on several television shows including The CBS Early Show, ABC7's "View From the Bay," NBC11's "In Wine Country," "Joey Altman's Bay Café;" Sara's Secrets and Cooking Live! with Sara Moulton on the Television Food Network, Martha Stewart Living Television, Plum TV in Aspen, Colorado, California Country, "Fox & Friends" and "Fox News Magazine," and many others. She has written for national magazines including Food & Wine, Culture, Fine Cooking, Saveur, Cooking Pleasures, Country Living, Cooking Light, and Every Day with Rachael Ray.

She is an active member of the American Cheese Society, where she served on the board for six years, and is a member of the James Beard Foundation, San Francisco Professional Food Society, and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

10/14/11, 4:30p - 5:45p

Downtown: Event Deck - L.A. LIVE

Price: $50.00Sold Out

Who's Plating

Laura Werlin Author & Cheese Expert San Francisco

Who's Pouring

Brazin

Gnarly Head

Loredona

Noble Vines California

Featured Guests

Dana Cowin Editor in Chief Food & Wine

Laura Werlin Author / Artisan Laura Werlin Cheese...

Dana Cowin, Food & Wine’s editor in chief since 1995, has been covering the world of food, wine, style and design for more than 25 years. Dana oversees the Food & Wine brand, including a monthly magazine with a circulation of 925,000; digital products, including the website foodandwine.com; mobile applications; and editions for iPad, Nook Color and Kindle Fire. She additionally heads up a books division that publishes Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes, the Food & Wine Wine Guide, Food & Wine Cocktails, and several other titles. She also serves as editorial advisor to Food & Wine China, the publication's first international edition.

Under Dana’s leadership, the award-winning magazine has attracted an audience of more than 10 million readers with a passionate, adventurous approach to cooking, wine, entertaining, restaurants and travel. Dana is a 2012 James Beard Foundation Who’s Who of Food & Beverage in America inductee, one of the highest honors for food and beverage professionals working in North America. In 2011, she was inducted into the MIN (Media Industry Newsletter) Editorial and Design Hall of Fame, and the magazine won the James Beard Foundation award in the Wine and Spirits category for Jon Fine’s “Natural Wine: Weird or Wonderful?” (June 2010 issue).

Before joining Food & Wine, Dana was managing editor of Mademoiselle, managing editor of House & Garden, and an associate editor of Vogue.

Dana is on the board of directors of City Harvest, a New York City hunger-relief organization, for which she spearheads the annual "Skip Lunch Fight Hunger" campaign, and is on the board of directors of Wholesome Wave Foundation. She is a member of Brown University's President's Leadership Council.

Dana appears frequently on national television and shares her eating and drinking adventures on twitter.com/fwscout (@fwscout) and on Facebook.

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