A Message from Rosana & Mano Calambichis, Managing Partners – BigChef

We are delighted to bring to you The ULTIMATE Holiday Feast, our second in a series. Thank you to everyone who participated in ULTIMATE Holiday Feast. This cookbook is the culmination of the recipes we have compiled, created and received from a variety of resources such as our customers, family and friends.

We know how important the holidays are to everyone and wanted to capture not only the traditions celebrated in our own home, we decided to also share several feasts and traditions from around the globe. The countries represented in this new edition include: America, Brazil, China, Columbia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. We put the word out to our community and these are the resulting countries we received. 10 countries in total!

At Big Chef Our concept is simple: We have passion for food creation and we strive to delight the palate of your customers and guests while saving you time and labor. To keep up with food trends and per requests of our clients and chefs, we are constantly creating innovative products in authentic styles and out-of-the-ordinary flavors. Our multi-cultural staff with a variety of talents and backgrounds, is a key ingredient and differentiating factor to our competitive advantage. Our eclectic classic and ethnic gourmet products satisfy the most distinguished palates.

Please enjoy the recipes in The ULTIMATE Holiday Feast! Be sure to look for upcoming recipes from our forthcoming series in The Ultimate Soups, The Ultimate Desserts, The Ultimate Salads… and more! And if you would like to submit a recipe for review and possible inclusion in one of our upcoming books, send to recipes @ bigchefonline.com.

Here is the direct link to the turning page version of The Ultimate Holiday Feast: http://bit.ly/rB0tKC

Remember: Food should be an experience to remember and not added to an event as an afterthought or because of budget constraints. Quality should never be undermined because of quantity.

Enjoy!

Rosana&Mano

Please join us for the next WEC Book Club:

February 21, 2011

6:30

Judith Kolva’s home:

Marine Tower

2500 East Las Olas

Penthouse 8

(Go in the lobby, and the security guard will tell you where to park.)

Please bring a bottle of wine.

Chef Schwabe (a.k.a. “Chuck, Judith’s husband”) volunteered to be our private chef for the evening.

RSVP no later than February 18^th to

judith@memoirshoppe.com

Featured book: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I can’t hear you!!!! Are you ready for your GEMS lunches????

That’s better.

The hosts past, current and future, 12 of us, met, to get ready for this upcoming year.

You will have 10 hosts, rotating lists sent to them from Liz.

Please be sure to email Liz Mendel if you want to be on attendee list, if you are not already on the list and attending lunches. Current attendees from 2009-2010 year do not have to do anything but to wait to hear from your host. For some reason if your host has not contacted you in August, please be sure to email them or Liz.

The lunch schedule is;

August-September

October-November

January-February

March-April

May- June

Bon Appetite

The Events team members Susan, Carol Metevier, Lynda Amorello, Connie Chaney and Marsha Broadwell met @ Sea Watch to discuss and plan for the upcoming February Cooking Class. We discussed 3 possible choices and are progressing towards making a decision. Lynda has been hard at work bringing all of the updates to our team. Thanks Lynda! We really appreciate you. It was great fun getting together. Watch for updates…..It is going to be a yummy unforgetable experience.