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Join hosts Nancy and Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) for this special feature on Earth-Friendly Foods & Wines. Special guests include Cheryl Bennett & Mike Stevens - Lava Lake Lamb; Justin Marx - Marx Foods; Jeremy Shapley of Triton Exports & Stella Organics - South African Organic Fair Trade Wines; and Mathieu Senard – Co-Founder of Alter Eco Fair Trade.

Fire Up the Grill! Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) and guest host Maralyn Hill – co-author of ‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’ and ‘Cooking Secrets – The Why and How’, as they get ready for summer and fire up the grill with Canadian Celebrity Chef Ted Reader dubbed “crazy Canuck barbecue kingpin” by GQ magazine; Chef Jeff Clock from Stockman’s Grill in Southern Arizona; and Chris Perrin ‘The Party Food Dude.’ Learn about what wines to serve at a BBQ party with Joe O’Keefe - ‘The Wine 101 Guy’, and Tracy Ellen Kamens Ed.D., DWS, CWE - Chief Education Officer of Grand Cru Classes.

Fire Up the Grill with Celebrity Chef Ted Reader & Company!
Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) and guest host Maralyn Hill – co-author of ‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’ and ‘Cooking Secrets – The Why and How’, as they get ready for summer and fire up the grill with Canadian Celebrity Chef Ted Reader dubbed “crazy Canuck barbecue kingpin” by GQ magazine; Chef Jeff Clock from Stockman’s Grill in Southern Arizona; and Chris Perrin ‘The Party Food Dude.’ Learn about what wines to serve at a BBQ party with Joe O’Keefe - ‘The Wine 101 Guy’, and Tracy Ellen Kamens Ed.D., DWS, CWE - Chief Education Officer of Grand Cru Classes.

Show airs Live on Monday, May 11 at 3pm PDT - Listen live at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Eat-Drink-Be-Merry/2009/05/11/BBQ-Burgers-Wine

Celebrity Chef Ted Reader is an award-winning chef and food entertainer, who’s parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cook books, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.   Known for his wild hair, pyrotechnic charm and fearless culinary spirit, it’s no surprise that GQ magazine labeled him the “crazy Canuck barbecue kingpin.” The dude just loves to cook!

Ted is probably best known for his former TV show, King of the Q, which aired for three seasons on CTV. But his TV career didn’t stop there. Ted has appeared for five seasons on Fishing the Flats, which aired on OLN, TSN and FOX.  He also appeared for two seasons on PBS’s Grilling Maestros and for nine years appeared as the grill chef on the series Cottage Country. Ted makes regular guest appearances on CTV’s Canada AM, Good Morning Canada and he has appeared several times on Live! With Regis and Kelly in addition to many other television appearances. He is often heard spicing up radio on Toronto’s AM 640 Talk Radio and on Q107 with host John Derringer and the Q107 Tour of the Neighborhood.

For five years, Ted was the Executive Chef at President’s Choice, where he developed over 250 products such as PC Real Jerk Wings and PC Thick and Cheesy Burgers. Ted has his own product development consulting company and has developed products for Heinz, E.D. Smith and Tony Roma’s Restaurants.  Ted has also developed the recipes in the Dave Nichol Cookbook and the PC Barbecue Cookbook. Ted has also been spokesperson for Maille Mustard, McCain, Napoleon Appliance Corporation and Playtex/Wet Ones.

In Ted ‘s 25-year career as a chef he’s earned numerous awards, including Best Sauce 2005 in which he captured a Gold with his King of the Q Pineapple Rum Sauce.  One of Ted’s President’s Choice products “If Chickens Could Fly” earned the Sial D’Or Award for Best New Product in Paris, France. In 2000, he was honored with a prize for his Sticks and Stones Cookbook by the Cuisine Canada Cookbook.

Read more about our Guests at http://www.bigblendmagazine.com/Eat-Drink-Be-Merry/May11-09

Join Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) and special guest co-host Maralyn Hill (co-author of ‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’ & ‘Cooking Secrets – The Why and How’, for another episode of Eat, Drink & Be Merry foodies radio. Focusing on healthy & earth-friendly food and cooking, featured guests include Timothy Fitzgerald Young - President/Chef of Food For Thought; Mimi Wheeler – Owner of Grocer's Daughter Chocolate; Tina Ruggiero, MS RD - The Gourmet Nutritionist will talk about Driscoll’s Organic Berries; Edward Field - Natural Merchants organic wine importer from Spain; and Chef Jernard Wells ‘The Chef of Love’ and author of ‘88 Ways to Her Heart: Cooking for Lovers from the Kitchen to the Bedroom’.

Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) as they chat about Vodka with Kent Rabish - Grand Traverse Distillery; discover the oldest Rum in the world with Chesterfield Browne - Mount Gay Rum in Barbados; Low Calorie Cocktails with Kirk Spahn - Co-Founder of TY KU Premium Liqueur Mix Up some ly Pear Margaritas & Martinis with Joe Bistodeau - Bar Tender at Rancho Los Caballeros in Wickenburg, AZ; and chat with Lynn Gorman Berentson from Great Spirits Baking Co.

Do you want to cook that ultra romantic dinner or give that delicious romantic gift to your loved one on Valentine’s Day? Join Nancy and Lisa, (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) and their special guests: Amy Reiley - Master of Gastronomy and author of ‘Fork Me, Spoon Me: The Sensual Cookbook’; Chef Jernard Wells 'The Chef of Love' and author of '88 Ways to Her Heart: Cooking for Lovers from the Kitchen to the Bedroom'; Executive Chef Marc Collins - Circa 1886 in Charleston, SC; Don Reha, winemaker at Thornton Winery in Temecula, CA; Philippe Lewis - Edible Love Chocolates; Andrew Schotts - Garrison Confections; and Josh Kaye - Bake Me a Wish!