This is a Flights & Bites cocktail style event, featuring up to 7 chefs creating 3 small dishes each, as well as up to 7 craft beverage makers, offering an array of delicious drink samples.
The Southern Appalachian Mountains are the oldest and most bio-diverse mountains in the world, offering endless natural beauty perfect for exploring the outdoors. Humans have been gathering around campfires since time immemorial, sharing food, stories and cultural traditions. But perceptions of engaging with the Great Outdoors have not always felt inclusive of all people. This event will spotlight chefs creating campfire food that represents multiple cultures and highlights current ongoing efforts to ensure Mother Nature is welcoming to everyone.
Speakers: George Ivey + Crew Members - Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation BIPOC Conservation Corps Trail Crew; Vivianette Ortiz + Claudia Ramos - Latinos Aventureros en las Carolinas
Featured Chefs/Restaurants: Owen McGlynn - Asheville Proper, Santiago Vargas - Mikasa AVL, Graham House - Wild Child & The Chop Shop Butchery, Jessie Massie - Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, White Labs Kitchen & Tap, Brian Crow - Chestnut
Featured Beverage: Sierra Nevada Brewing, Jack's 47 Mobile Bar, Eda Rhyne Distillery, Noble Cider, Shanti Elixirs, George Dickel Whisky, New Belgium Brewing, Beam Suntory, Devil's Foot Beverage Company
Event Sponsor: Diamond Brand Gear
Venue Sponsor: WNC Farmers Market
This is a Flights & Bites cocktail style event, featuring up to 7 chefs creating 3 small dishes each, as well as up to 7 craft beverage makers, offering an array of delicious drink samples.
The Southern Appalachian Mountains are the oldest and most bio-diverse mountains in the world, offering endless natural beauty perfect for exploring the outdoors. Humans have been gathering around campfires since time immemorial, sharing food, stories and cultural traditions. But perceptions of engaging with the Great Outdoors have not always felt inclusive of all people. This event will spotlight chefs creating campfire food that represents multiple cultures and highlights current ongoing efforts to ensure Mother Nature is welcoming to everyone.
Speakers: George Ivey + Crew Members - Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation BIPOC Conservation Corps Trail Crew; Vivianette Ortiz + Claudia Ramos - Latinos Aventureros en las Carolinas
Featured Chefs/Restaurants: Owen McGlynn - Asheville Proper, Santiago Vargas - Mikasa AVL, Graham House - Wild Child & The Chop Shop Butchery, Jessie Massie - Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, White Labs Kitchen & Tap, Brian Crow - Chestnut
Featured Beverage: Sierra Nevada Brewing, Jack's 47 Mobile Bar, Eda Rhyne Distillery, Noble Cider, Shanti Elixirs, George Dickel Whisky, New Belgium Brewing, Beam Suntory, Devil's Foot Beverage Company
Event Sponsor: Diamond Brand Gear
Venue Sponsor: WNC Farmers Market
Owen McGlynn (he/him) is the Executive Chef of Asheville Proper, a live-fire steakhouse in the heart of downtown Asheville, NC. Previously of Storm Rhum Bar & Bistro, Owen, alongside his wife Mindi, opened the restaurant in August 2020. Guided by a wood-burning Argentinean style grill, which also serves as the focal point of the dining room, Owen creates a seasonally inspired menu of locally sourced proteins and produce, all roasted, charred, or smoked by live-fire.
×Born in Lima, Perú, surrounded by flavors and traditions from the Andes. From a very young age, Chef Vargas (he/him) has loved the art of cooking. In 2008, he moved to New York City with a suitcase and a dream of becoming a gourmet chef. Santiago has worked in several renowned restaurants in Long Island, NY, preparing dishes ranging high end Italian cuisine to the traditional American barbecue. He received praise for his work in Newsday, Long Island’s press and was featured on Skillet, a podcast highlighting chefs living in the South.
×Graham House (he/him) has a deep a reverence for local, seasonal produce and agriculture, and specializes in live fire cookery. His dishes express his personal style: fresh, vegetable-forward modern Appalachian cuisine. Combining bold flavors and aesthetics, he applies a snout-to-tail carnivore’s approach to produce, using the entire vegetable.
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Jessie Massie (she/her) is the Executive Chef of the Taproom at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. A native of West Asheville, she found her love of cooking in her mom and grandmother’s kitchens where she grew up cooking, preserving, and enjoying Appalachian fare. She has a passion for locally sourced ingredients and enjoys cooking with beer and brewer ingredients.
×Charles (he/him). Cooking has always been a creative outlet for me both at work and at home. When all else fails it's nice to know that gathering around a table for a good meal surrounded by loved ones will never go out of style. I will never forget my grandmother's lasagna and the way it always brought family together. I always try to remember moments such as these when looking for inspiration in my work.
×Growing up in the Appalachian Mountains, Brian (he/him) gained an appreciation for each season to come and was able to find his culinary expression through his mom’s cooking. A graduate of the AB Tech culinary program, Brian moved to Denver, CO and was recognized as a “culinary game-changer” in Zagat Magazine and as one of the “top 30 chefs under 30 in Colorado”. Brian returned to Asheville in 2017 to rejoin a restaurant group that he worked at in his early culinary days.
×George Ivey (he/him) was born and raised in Asheville, living just two miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway. He spent a summer as a busboy at the Pisgah Inn in the 1980s and cycled the Parkway’s 469 miles over eight days in 2004. Now he directs the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation’s fundraising and community outreach in North Carolina and plays a central role in the Foundation’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. George lives in Flat Rock with his wife and two young children.
×Vivianette Ortiz (she/her) was born in the beach and mountain town of Patillas, Puerto Rico. She grew up running the hills of her hometown, bodyboarding, and playing hide-in-seek barefoot through the farmlands. Her love for nature and the Latino community led her to be one of the founders of the group Latinos Aventureros en las Carolinas. She is continuously finding ways to inspire the Latino community, especially families to go outside and explore by breaking down generational, language and racial obstacles.
×Claudia Ramos (she/her) was born in Lima, Peru and came to the United States at 2 years old. Claudia grew up outside of Atlanta, GA, and moved to NC to further her education. She lives in Charlotte, NC as a Mental Health Professional and the Founder of Vida Coaching and Consulting. In her free time Claudia enjoys different adventures with hiking as has grown as part of her selfcare. Her most recent hikes have been local yet larger adventures have been climbing Acatenango and Fuego volcanoes in Guatemala.
×Turns out, good beer can do a lot of good. We shook things up in the ’80s, and it helped launch a beer revolution that’s in full force today. We keep pushing boundaries, whether that’s in the brewhouse, with sustainability, or in the great outdoors.
×Create a bar experience that your guests will enjoy - and remember. They will love sipping drinks from our fleet of mobile bar trucks.
×Eda Rhyne Distillery is dedicated to producing exceptional small batch spirits that capture the creative, hardworking spirit of Southern Appalachia. We source local heirloom corn, grains and botanicals that give a uniquely North Carolina flavor to our spirits.
×Founded in the new 'Craft Brew Mecca' of Asheville and North Carolina's apple country, Noble brings together a rich local history of agriculture with this region’s exciting craft beverage industry. We make a variety of things...mead, spritzers, wine, and cider of course!
×Born 40 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George A. Dickel was an established Nashville merchant when he entered the whisky business. Dickel grew his reputation for selling the smoothest, most mellow spirits in the region. Thus, Geo. A. Dickel & Co. was born and when the Cascade Hollow Distillery opened in 1878 in neighboring Coffee County, George Dickel bought a large share. George Dickel followed in the Scottish tradition of spelling whisky without an “e.”
×We were born on a bike. The rest is history. For almost 30 years we have crafted beers while proving that business can be a force for good.
×As a world leader in premium spirits, Beam Suntory is inspiring human connections. With a vision of Growing for Good, we're driving growth through quality craftsmanship, consumer connections and entrepreneurial spirit.
×Farm-To-Can Craft Soda. We pride ourselves on working with Organic Roots & Fruits to create a healthier, more flavorful non-alcoholic experience for everyone in our communities.
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