Come hungry to EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival and celebrate all things food, cooking, entertaining, and culinary travel at BC Place Stadium on May 30, 31 & June 1, 2014.

Chopped Canada judges Lynn Crawford, Chuck Hughes, and Vikram Vij will take the Food Network Celebrity Stage, joined by Ned Bell of Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver and EAT! Vancouver veteran, Rob Feenie of Cactus Club Restaurants. The celebrity chefs will instruct, interact, and entertain foodies with their contemporary cooking techniques and experiences in the culinary world.

While indulging in over 250 mouth-watering exhibitors, EAT! Vancouver attendees can also travel the world with chefs on the Flavours World Stage and explore culinary travel destinations at the World Culinary Travel Expo. Beer and wine connoisseurs can listen to and explore pairings and tastings with culinary and mixology experts on the Sips Stage, and The Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts (PICA) returns with their popular Culinary Classes, where the public can channel their inner master chef with help from the school’s instructors.

The ever-popular Bites area will feature mouthwatering dishes from a selection of local restaurants, and the adults can sip new offerings from wine, beer and spirits vendors in the Sips area. Dairy Farmers of Canada will again present Cheese Seminars, educating the public on how to best prepare and experiment with different Canadian cheeses.

More than 40,000 visitors are expected to attend over the three-day weekend. Tickets are $17 for adults ($14 online), $15 for seniors ($14 online), and $9 for youth aged 13-16. Children 12 and under are free.

For information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.eat-vancouver.com.

About EAT!:
The EAT! Vancouver Food + Cooking Festival is Canada’s largest consumer food festival¹, featuring hundreds of food, beverage & kitchen goods exhibitors along with tourist boards, travel suppliers, wineries, breweries, restaurants, cooking demonstrations, wine, beer and cheese seminars, cookbook authors & chef competitions. The three-day festival is attended by culinary and travel enthusiasts, trade and media. More details are available at www.eat-vancouver.com.

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