San Francisco, CA – Barbara Adams and Beyond Wonderful are pleased to welcome Linda Carucci as Guest Chef for the month of November. As a visiting expert, Carucci covers the season’s hottest culinary topic: brining and roasting the ultimate holiday turkey.
Linda is the Julia Child Director of Culinary Programs at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, California. She is the author of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks (Chronicle Books, 2005), which was a finalist for a James Beard Award and the Julia Child First Book Award.
“I’m so excited to be working with Linda,” explains Beyond Wonderful president and founder Barbara Adams. “Not only is she an amazing chef and writer, but she’s got years of practical teaching experience, so she really knows how to make her recipes and techniques accessible for everyone.”
For eight years prior to joining the staff at Copia, Linda taught cooking classes in her Oakland, California cooking school and across the United States. In 2002, her peers in the International Association of Culinary Professionals voted Linda Cooking Teacher of the Year. A December 1984 graduate of the California Culinary Academy, Linda went back to serve as the dean there from 1989 to 1993, then taught at the Academy from 1995 to 1996.
For her November feature, Linda joins the four permanent members of the Beyond Wonderful expert panel: Dan Avakian on produce, Michael De Loach covering wine, Mark Todd on cheese and Catherine Christiansen on baking and pastry. Each expert’s monthly columns include recipes or serving suggestions, enhanced with inspiring professional photography.
To learn more about Linda Carucci, please visit www.LCKitchen.com.
About COPIA
COPIA is a non-profit discovery center whose mission is to explore, celebrate and share the many pleasures and benefits of wine, its relationship to food and its significance to our culture. Located in the heart of Napa Valley, COPIA is the premier wine country destination—offering visitors exceptional wine and food tasting programs, art exhibitions, organic edible gardens, films, concerts, fine and casual dining, shopping and more. Learn more at www.copia.org.
About Barbara Adams’ Beyond Wonderful
Beyond Wonderful launched in September 2004 from the San Francisco Bay Area; an internationally renowned center for culinary innovation. The brainchild of Barbara Adams, Beyond Wonderful delivers all the color, flavor, vitality and spice of this magnificent region in an ongoing culinary adventure from farms to markets to vineyards and beyond – culminating, of course, in the kitchen. For more information, contact pr@beyondwonderful.com.
