Join us for a special wine tasting with local sommelier Daniel McCurdy and light bites from Chef Martha Hubbard followed by the film Love, Charlie presented by the Key West Film Festival. Love, Charlie is a documentary film that profiles the life and work of legendary Chef Charlie Trotter and his pivotal role in revolutionizing the culinary world.

The film will be introduced by Chef Norman Van Aken who was the Chef/Partner at Louie’s Backyard in Key West from 1985-1990. During that time Charlie Trotter came to work in the kitchens at Louie’s with Chef just before his return to his home in Illinois to open his soon to be famous restaurant, “Charlie Trotter’s”.

Norman Van Aken is widely known for introducing the term “Fusion” into the vocabulary of global cuisine due to a speech he presented in Santa Fe in 1989. He is the only Floridian Chef recipient of the James Beard Foundation’s ‘Who’s Who’ in American Food and Beverage. He has also been asemifinalist for the “Best Chef in America”. His namesake restaurant NORMAN’S, was nominated as a finalist for “Best Restaurant in America.” He has represented the United States with international recognitions that include being honored alongside Alice Waters, Paul Prudhomme and Mark Miller as “One of the Founders of New American Cuisine” at Spain’s International Summit of Gastronomy ‘Madrid Fusión’.

Price: $75