2020 PCG Food & Beverage Symposium
This year’s theme for the PCG Food & Beverage Symposium is The Future of Food: an exploration of our changing food landscape — how we can best prepare for it and take advantage of it.
Educational Event
Wild Hope Farm – Cooking in Season: Tasting & Demo
PCG Member Katherine Belk hosts this cooking lesson to teach you all about cooking in season with produce harvested directly from the farm.
Wild Hope Farm – No-Till & Cover Cropping Workshop
PCG Member Katherine Belk, is hosting an informative tour of Wild Hope Farm and a workshop focused around No-Till and Cover Cropping – techniques to save time and increase soil health.
Pilot Brewing Company – When Good Beer Goes Bad: An Off-Flavor Course
PCG Professional Member, certified Advanced Cicerone, Jen Blair, teaches attendees to develop their beer sensory skills.
Extravaganza Depot – Inland Seafood Charlotte Experience
INDUSTRY ONLY. Inland Seafood, a certified PCG Business Member, is hosting a showcase of Inland Seafood’s seafood, meats, and artisan specialty foods – paired with wine and craft beer.
Philip L. Van Every Center / CPCC – Charlotte SHOUT! Math Behind the Menu Dinner
Piedmont Culinary Guild is teaming with the Charlotte SHOUT! festival to bring you an evening of local food – and a look at what it costs to get that food to you. Twelve PCG chefs will be working in two-chef teams …
BOOM Charlotte – Fermentation Workshop
PCG Member John Schaal will be conducting a Fermentation Workshop as part of the BOOM Charlotte festival. Attendees will sample a variety of foods that make use of fermentation and make a batch of sauerkraut …
Bull City Farm – Cheese & Charcuterie Workshop
Noted farmer, butcher, author and PCG Member Meredith Leigh teams up with Bull City Farm’s Samantha Gasson for a two-day cheese and charcuterie workshop, where they will will explore fermentation and flavor from the angles of both cured meats and delicious cheeses.
Sensoria Food & Wine
Piedmont Culinary Guild has partnered with Central Piedmont Community College for this year’s Sensoria Arts and Literature Festival to add a very special Food & Wine celebration.
Stoke – Unpretentious Palate Presents Meat & Potatoes: Redefining Charlotte’s Culinary Stereotype
PCG Member Kristen Wile of Unpretentious Palate connects six innovative Charlotte chefs for a five-course meal of meat and potato dishes, using no prime cuts of meat.