April 4, 2006

Mitchell Crosby and Denise Barto
to Produce the Second Annual
BB&T Food + Wine Festival

For Immediate Release
Contact:  Barbara P Heddinger
843.795.1420
Barbara@heddinger.ws

J. Mitchell Crosby of JMC Charleston and Denise Barto of All Occasions are once again producing the Second Annual Food + Wine Festival. “The event was so successful last year that Crosby and Barto were asked to do it again” said Board Member Laura Hewitt.

The festival, slated for March 2-5, 2007, will grow in scope to include a number of new events, including a Celebrity Chef Dinner, “Under the Charleston Stars” in a private penthouse apartment which overlooks the city; exclusive to 60 people, an expanded Gospel Brunch, a Sunday afternoon BBQ for 500 guests, and a Saturday evening Young Patron’s Event at the Historic Rice Mill.

“We find our expanding roll with the festival very exciting, as new venues with new culinary experiences are made available to the public”, says Crosby. This years events will include educational lectures by top celebrity writers and chefs, as well as top vendors, wine merchants and restaurants in the main tent for you to visit. Here is your chance to meet and learn from the best in the business.

From the elegant and sophisticated black-tie soiree for 60 guests in a private penthouse to the BBQ for 500, the additional events prove that there is something for everyone during this festival weekend.

As pit masters from most of the Southern states prepare their samplings, prepare to be dazzled by an authentic Low country ‘pig picking’ complete with a Columbia, South Carolina Soul band, wagons, bales of hay, handsome wait staff in straw hats and hordes banana pudding and peach cobbler!

To learn more about the weekend, visit www.charlestonfoodandwine.com.