Letters From Italy - Brunch With Julie Biuso At Te Papa On 14 March.

In association with Te Papa’s blockbuster exhibition A Day in Pompeii, Te Papa and Visa Entertainment are pleased to present Letters from Italy, an exclusive brunch with acclaimed food writer and chef, Julie Biuso (http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/pompeii). Tickets (public $75; Friends of Te Papa $70) are strictly limited, and can be purchased with either a Visa credit or debit card at www.visaentertainment.co.nz.

Following an exclusive viewing of the Pompeii exhibition, guests will have the chance to enjoy an Italian-inspired brunch in Te Papa’s Icon venue. The menu will feature some of Julie’s own recipes, and she will read from her letters home and tell of her experiences in Naples and Pompeii, which became the foundation of her extensive career in food journalism.

Julie Biuso first toured Italy in 1975. She fell in love with the place, people, and culinary delights. It was there that she discovered the simple delights of Neapolitan cuisine, and the letters she wrote home while she travelled paint vivid pictures of her experiences.

Julie Biuso is currently Food Editor of Taste and Your Home & Garden magazines, she runs a successful website – www.juliebiuso.com – and is a regular contributor on Radio New Zealand National.

She has an impressive list of credits to her name. Her books have received a Montana Book Award and seven Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, all for previous titles published by New Holland. (in 2008, Sizzle, her latest book, was awarded Best Barbecue Cookbook in the history of the awards.) Julie Biuso has also been awarded the University of Canterbury Food Journalism Award and a Gold Ladle in the World Media Awards, and she has been elected the NZ Guild of Foodwriters’ Feature Writer and the Montana Food & Wine Writer of the Year. In 2007, she was given a Special Award of the Jury at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

Letters from Italy – brunch with Julie Biuso
Sunday 14 March 2010
9am–12 pm
Te Papa
Tickets – Public $75; Friends of Te Papa $70

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