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2010Michael Aeyal Ginor is co-founder and Chef of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, the most comprehensive Foie Gras producer in the world. Michael, with his partner Izzy Yanay, modernized the ancient delicacy known to Pharos and kings by utilizing the hi-tech and scientifically advanced production techniques of the twentieth century.
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2010SILVER MEDAL BOCUSE D’OR 2009 Chef Jonas Lundgren finished second in Bocuse D’or 2009. The competition is the worlds most prestige cooking competition and is also known as the World Championship of Gourmet Cooking. 24 countries competed during two days in Lyon, France, during January 2009.
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2010Lorenzo Fasola Bologna Lorenzo Fasola Bologna is the CEO of Castello Monte Vibiano. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Perugia he took over his tradtional family business in Umbria growing olives, producing olive oil and wines from the Umbria region. -
2010Chef and patron from NOMA restaurant René Redzepi chef and patron from NOMA restaurant in Copenhagen will be honorary guest chef at the Reykjavik Food and Fun festival this year. NOMA is voted 3rd by the S.Pellegrino World´s 50 Best Restaurants. Those awards are considered the most prestige in the world today. -
2010ANYA VON BREMZEN Moscow-born Anya von Bremzen has been a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure magazine for over a decade, and writes regularly and food and travel for Food & Wine, Saveur, and Departures magazines. Her articles have also appeared in The New Yorker, Men’s Vogue, and Los Angeles Times, among other publications. -
2010Jeff Tunks, a longtime Washingtonian and native of Texas. He is one of the founders of Food and Fun festival and has been Chairman of the J ury for the last 5 years. He is Executive Chef at the restaurants, DC Coast, TenPenh, Ceiba, and Acadiana which is run by Passion Food, LLC,where he is the third partner together with Gus DeMillo and David Weizenberg. -
2010Chef Jeff Buben from Washington DC, has been participating in the Food and fun from beginning and for the last 6 years as a steady member of the jury. Winner of the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef Mid-Atlantic 1999. Jeffrey Buben is the chef and owner of two prestigious restaurants in Washington, D.C., Vidalia and Bistro Bis. Acknowledged by Bon Appétit as one of the Best New Restaurants of 1993, Vidalia has garnered both local and national recognition with its regional American cooking delivered with Southern hospitality.






