Panel Moderator: Michele Scicolone, Author, Teacher, Spokesperson, Consultant, and Food Editor for www.i-italy.org Panelists: Arthur Schwartz, “The Food Maven”. The New York Times Magazine called Arthur Schwartz "a walking Google of food and restaurant knowledge." Bob Lape, Emmy Award Winner, is known as "The Restaurant Encyclopedia." His EYEWITNESS GOURMET feature on WABC-TV is often cited as inspiration for the Food TV Network, and his "Dining Diary" on WCBS 880 has aired more than 6,000 times. Fred Plotkin, described by The New York Times as "one of those New York word-of-mouth legends, known by the cognoscenti for his renaissance mastery of two seemingly separate disciplines: music and the food of Italy."
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