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URL:https://devourfest.com/program/culinary-workshop-w-chef-paul-virant/
SUMMARY:Culinary Workshop w/Chef Paul Virant
DESCRIPTION:Preservation and How to Utilize It: Chicago area chef and Iron
  Chef America competitor Paul Virant teaches us new ways to innovate with 
 preserved foods - a great showcase in the fall!\n$30.00 per guest\nSponsor
 ed by Big Erics\n\nPaul Virant\n\nSince opening Vie\, his flagship restaur
 ant in Western Springs\, Illinois\, in 2004\, Chef Paul Virant has risen t
 o nationwide acclaim for his contemporary Midwestern cuisine that emphasiz
 es canned and preserved ingredients. His philosophy of local\, seasonal ea
 ting stems from techniques he learned on his family's farm in Missouri. In
  2012\, Virant released The Preservation Kitchen: The Craft of Making and 
 Cooking with Pickles\, Preserves\, and Aigre-Doux\, the first canning manu
 al and cookbook authored by a critically acclaimed chef that creatively co
 mbines the technical aspects of canning with a chef's expertise on flavor.
  Virant opened Vistro in Hinsdale\, Illinois\, in 2014. Vistro focuses on 
 approachable\, seasonal food and drinks\, and serves as a staple in the co
 mmunity for friends and families. Virant is the former partner and executi
 ve chef of Boka Restaurant Group's Perennial Virant (2011 to 2016) in Chic
 ago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. \n\nMost recently\, in 2017\, Virant laun
 ched Jar Sessions\, a locally produced\, smallbatch line of pickled and pr
 eserved products\, collaborating with Midwest farmers to create the Jar Se
 ssions collection of farm-to-fork products. Virant's accolades include 201
 5\, 2014\, 2013 and 2011 finalist nominations for the James Beard Foundati
 on Award's Best Chef: Great Lakes\; 2007 Best New Chef by Food &amp\; Wine
 \; 2007 Jean Banchet Award for Culinary Excellence as Top Celebrity Chef\;
  and 2005 Best New Chef by Chicago magazine. He also has competed on Food 
 Network's "Iron Chef America." Vie earned a Michelin star in 2011. Virant 
 graduated with a degree in nutrition from West Virginia Wesleyan College a
 nd then attended The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park\, New York
 . Following culinary school\, he joined March in New York\, where he furth
 er refined his skills under the tutelage of chefs Wayne Nish and Hilary Gr
 egg. Two years later\, he moved to Chicago and worked at some of the natio
 n's most famed restaurants\, including Charlie Trotter's\, Ambria\, Everes
 t and Blackbird. @paul_virant
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LOCATION:Wolfville Farmer's Market\, 4 Elm Ave\, Wolfville\, NS\, B4P 2S3\,
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