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Arlene Feltman Sailhac

Owner and director of Food- o Philes a company specializing in gastronomic trips that are boutique and unique. All trips are chef driven- To date there have been trips to Lucca, Piedmont and Sicily in Italy, Provence Alsace & Champagne in France, Santa Fe and Sonoma in the USA Istanbul is schedule for July 2010

Founder of the 29 year old De Gustibus at Macy’s Demonstration Cooking School, owner/director from 1980 to 2007 in NYC, The school has featured over 800 prominent chefs, cooking teachers, and food professionals and considssered the benchmark for demonstration cooking schoolsCo-producer and co-editor of the video and book Trucs Of The Trade Author of 6 De Gustibus Presents: The Great Cookbooks: French, Italian, New American, Southwest, Mediterranean and Low-Fat.

Author of Cooking at De Gustibus: Celebrating 25 Years of Culinary Innovation, winner of the IACP award for Best Book in Compilation Category in 2005

A member of Les Dames D’Escoffier, and 1997 was awarded “Women of Distinction Award” by the New York Chapter of the Roundtable for Women in Foodservice.

In 2001 De Gustibus was awarded the IACP Award of Excellence/Cooking School Category