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Food festivals have certainly come a long way in the past few years. No longer are they sparsely attended fringe events popping up in hotel ballrooms. Festivals in the year 2015 are star-studded affairs, complete with heady promises of once-in-a-lifetime meals and coveted VIP ticket packages that cost north of $1,000. Food Republic is here to point you…

It’s become an Aspen Food & Wine Classic tradition. A private jet full of chefs and Food & Wine magazine brass lands in Aspen just before the opening night party. In typical private jetting fashion, what happens on the private jet, stays on the private jet. There is also lots and lots and lots of…

The Food and Wine Classic in Aspen is like summer camp for celebrity chefs, media, Burgundy collectors, Aston Martin enthusiasts and food fans who converge on the sleepy Colorado town for all sorts of fun. Here are some of highlights, both food and breakfast sandwich related. Best of the tents The 12 Best New Chefs…

There is a smoked sturgeon salad served with crème fraîche, chives and egg mimosa. An asparagus salad dotted with ricotta produced at a small farm in rural Colorado. And a lamb saddle, also from Colorado, done with gnocchi, baby artichokes and pine nut gremolata. Alex Seidel, the award-winning chef from Denver and the man behind…

I’ve covered the wildly ambitious heritage pig cooking competition and brown liquid exhibition Cochon 555 for years, but have never had the chance to sit in the judge’s room until today. I had butterflies walking into the Jerome Hotel in Aspen — and it wasn’t just last night’s 2:30 a.m. Veuve talking. Why? Because this…

There is no short supply of celebrity cheffage at the Aspen Food & Wine Classic. Hell, they fly in by the jet-full. But there is only one José Andrés, that great Spanish culinary ambassador running restaurants in Miami, Las Vegas and Washington D.C. He throws the best parties over the just-finished, long, party-packed weekend, and…

Now in its 30th year, the annual Food and Wine Classic in Aspen is like summer camp for celebrity chefs, media and food fans swarming the sleepy Colorado town. We were on the ground for a number of the events and currently writing, hungover on pork, in the lobby of the St. Regis. An Elton…