So I celebrated my birthday (an unfortunately large, round number) at Copia in Napa, which is sort of a wine and food museum. You can read about it below. They showed us how to prepare a great meal in their cooking studio. Here's a picture of our salad. Here I am at the front of the classroom afterwards. The apple log is used to grow mushrooms.
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The North Bay and East Bay Chapters of the Haas Alumni Network invite you and your guest(s) to attend an exciting afternoon at COPIA in downtown Napa. Join your fellow alumni from the Bay Area and enjoy great wine, a three-course lunch, a cooking demonstration, and a presentation by our special guest, Haas alumnus Michaela Rodeno, CEO of St. Supéry Winery.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
COPIA, the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts (http://www.copia.org)
500 First Street, Napa, CA (707) 259-1600
Cost: $50 per person if registered on or before October 8, 2008
$60 per person if registered after October 8, 2008
Registration will be limited to the first 70 people. Tickets are going fast! Please register as soon as possible.
DESCRIPTION OF EVENT:
Haas at COPIA
The afternoon will begin at 12:30 PM with a 30-minute presentation by Michaela Rodeno, CEO of St. Supery Winery (http://www.saintsupery.com), who will discuss some hot issues in the premium wine business as you sip a glass of wine from her company's vineyards. Michaela is one of the leading women in the California wine industry. November 2008 marks her 20th anniversary with St. Supery, serving as the winery's first and only CEO. During her tenure, Michaela has carefully guided the winery onto the market and through a period of rapid growth. St. Supery's wines have earned critical acclaim and many awards for the winery. Prior to joining St. Supery, Michaela spent more than 15 years at Domaine Chandon, during which time she earned her M.B.A. at the Haas School of Business, in 1980.
Michaela's presentation will be followed by a special edition of the Taste of COPIA, where you can imagine yourself in a live cooking show studio, enjoying an interactive cooking demonstration, garden talk, and a three-course lunch paired with three varietals of wine.
If you'd like to stay after the event, you will have the opportunity to explore the COPIA facilities, which include 13,000 square feet of gallery space for exhibitions of art, culinary history and science, a rare-books library, three and one-half acres of landscaped organic edible gardens for hands-on learning about soils, farming and viticulture, and a museum gift shop, among many other attractions. (General admission is free.) And of course, you'll have the opportunity to purchase wine, food, wine and cooking accessories, books, DVDs and more, so have your credit cards available. You also don't want to miss the opportunity to check out the newly opened Oxbow Public Market adjacent to COPIA. The Market is a Napa version of the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco.
Questions? Contact Jeannine Drew at jdrew@sonic.net.
