Charleston Wine + Food is a multi-day wine and food festival that takes place the first full weekend each March, and I have covered it as a media person, and/or participated as talent for all of its going-on 18 years excepting one. The following interview took place live in the midst of the Culinary Village at this year’s festival, and I’m sharing it now because I already have the 2024 festival on the brain. Not only is my behind the scenes planning well underway, but tickets go on sale to the public on October 19. I lovingly call it my Super Bowl, because it is, and the connections and education from it seeds much of the work I do. One of those relationships is with Alyssa Maute Smith, my conversation partner here and the festival’s Executive Director. Alyssa, a native Charlestonian, stepped into the Interim role in April of 2022, having successfully served as the festival’s Marketing + Communications Director for 6 years, then in 2023 was officially granted the title. There’s no mistaking the energy of Charleston Wine + Food, and Alyssa's enthusiasm for the work and for this community she calls home is a good compass for its future. And I’m proud to call her my friend.
Vance Vaucresson: Vaucresson’s Sausage Company (New Orleans, LA)
Jeff Balfour & Laurent Réa: Brasserie Mon Chou Chou (San Antonio, TX)
Elizabeth Johnson: Pharm Table (San Antonio, TX)
Steve McHugh: Cured at Pearl & Landrace (San Antonio, TX)
Regan Meador: Southold Farm + Cellar (Fredericksburg, TX)
John & Evelyn Washburne: Side Street Hospitality (Fredericksburg, TX)
Jake Schmidt: The Swag (Waynesville, NC)
Kate Towill: Basic Projects (Charleston, SC)
Mike Wolf: Author & Mixologist (Nashville, TN)
Marshall Rabil: Hubbard Peanut Company (Sedley, VA)
Sam Norton: Heron Farms (Charleston, SC)
Daniel & Bethany Heinze: Vern's (Charleston, SC)
Marvin Ross: Peculiar Pig Farm (Dorchester, SC)
Joy Wilson: Joy the Baker (New Orleans, LA)
Vishwesh Bhatt: Snackbar (Oxford, MS)
Kim Shaw: Small City Farm (Charlotte, NC)
Barbara McKay: TV Personality, Cook, & Author (Charlotte, NC)
Will Green: The Whig, WECO Bottle and Biergarten (Columbia, SC)
Josh Quick: Odette (Florence, AL)
Justin Hill: Eastaboga Bee Company (Eastaboga, AL)
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