This Wednesday, join culinary council chefs at Macy’s in San Francisco.

Tom Douglas and Andrea Robinson, Master Sommelier will be hosting the perfect pairing party during Macy’s 64th Annual Flower Show.

The event is $15 and is 21+.   100% of the proceeds benefit Meals On Wheels of San Francisco.

Make sure to get your tickets and RSVP at Macys.com/Events.

For more information about this spectacular event, and to see Andrea demonstrate how to pair wine with Tom’s favorite recipes check out the full event details here.

By: Krystyl Baldwin

The 2009 Tasty Awards are coming to San Francisco January 14.  Featuring some of the best culinary and fashion arts of 2009 from television, film and the web.

Realizing that food, drink, fashion and design are all a dominate factor in video and television viewership, they did not have an award for their own achievements until 2008 at the New Media Tastemakers Summit.

The Tasty awards will showcase some of 2009′s best achievements in food, wine, and style programming.  Online, televised, mobile or cinema, celebrity or self proclaimed, everyone has an opportunity to win.

Hosted by food and travel television star Zane Lamprey, the show features a star-studded lineup of food and fashion TV celebrities.

Winners of the Tasty will be announced on January 14, 2010 at an exclusive red carpet awards show in San Francisco at the Sundance Kabuki.  Select portions of the show will be filmed for a televised broadcast to be aired in February 2010 to millions of households.

For more information, visit http://www.tastyawards.com.

To purchase tickets, visit http://tastyawards-2010.eventbrite.com

by Michelle Lentz

Seattle has a handle on coffee – and apparently food-oriented web sites. A lot of popular foodie web sites, including Allrecipes.com and UrbanSpoon are located in that fair city, and now they can add Foodista to the list.

Foodista is, at its core, Wikipedia for recipes. I’m not sure how I feel about it. One thing I love about Allrecipes and its ilk is that there are usually several different versions of a given recipe. After all, we all make eggnog differently.

Foodista co-founders are Barnaby Dorfman and Sheri Wetherell. Dorfman is a previous VP of Amazon’s A9 Search group. Additionally, Colin Saunders, a former Amazon developer is involved. The team started building the site in April, creating a rather large repository so that the site would have a nice starting point at launch. (I wish all new sites would do that.)

I signed up for an account and added a recipe for Egg Nog (yum!). It took my basic recipe and prettied it up. That includes adding hyperlinks to each ingredient – you know, in case you want to make your own ice cream for the recipe. Additionally, it allowed me to choose from a selection of Flickr photos related to Egg Nog.

Since I also blogged about nog on my Wine Blog, I was able to link that post to the Foodista entry. Foodista provides a nice link back to my blog post as well, similar to how Urban Spoon links restaurant review posts. I’m a big fan of this convention.

Finally, it has a brief definition of Egg Nog, pulled from Wikipedia, and a comments section, adding to the interactivity.

Now that I’ve entered this egg nog recipe, someone else can edit it, change it, and make comments. It’s an interesting concept. Collaborative recipes are sort of a new thing – most of the chefs I know are rather possessive of their recipes. It’s a neat idea; we’ll see where it takes them.

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