Mark your calendars for Bon Appétit Presents Feast
Portland 2017, September 14th-17th. The
2017 festival line-up and schedule will be announced when tickets go on sale in
May.
"We are very pleased with the continued success of the
festival, and grateful to the city, our community of participants, the Feast
Portland team, and the many small local and regional businesses and contractors
who come together year after year to make this festival happen," says
Bon Appétit Presents Feast Portland co-founders, Mike Thelin and
Carrie Welch.
During this year’s festival, which took place September
15-18 2016, 104 chefs from around the world, plus 21 artisans, 23 breweries and
cider houses, 62 wineries, and 16 distilleries participated in 42 unique events
at beautiful venues throughout Portland.
Festival organizers brought back favorite events Sandwich
Invitational, Grand Tasting, Night Market, Smoked!, Brunch Village, Dinner
Series, Hands-On Classes and Drink Tank panel series, and also introduced four
new Fun-Size Events, a Latin theme for the Night Market, and a new East
Portland location for the Sandwich Invitational.
“A big thank you to Feast Portland for highlighting hunger
right here at home,” says Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon executive director
Annie Kirschner. “This gathering of people to celebrate food – the makers,
organizers and guests — helps us make sure everyone, especially children, get
enough to eat.”
The money raised by Feast Portland 2016 will benefit
Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon’s School Breakfast Program campaign “Let’s
Do Breakfast, Oregon!” with a goal of ensuring that more kids are able to
start the day with school breakfast, so they have the nourishment they need to
learn and focus on being good students and happy kids. Since its inception in
2012, Bon Appétit Presents Feast Portland has raised over
$300,000 to fight childhood hunger.
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