South Beach Wine & Food Festival Starts Today

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) starts today in Miami, and runs through Sunday, February 23rd.  The event is going into its 13th year and it raises money for Florida International University's School Of Hospitality & Tourism management.

One of the event sponsors is the Food Network, and many people from the Food Network attend the festival and appear at events.  Some of the Food Network personalities set to appear include: Anne Burrell, Sunny Anderson, Scott Conant, Giada De Laurentiis, Bobby Deen, Tyler Florence, Marc Forgione, Amanda Freitag, Alex Guarnaschelli, Robert Irvine, Katie Lee, Jeff Mauro, Masaharu Morimoto, Marc Murphy, Rachael Ray, Marcus Samuelsson, Aaron Sanchez, Chris Santos, Michael Symon, Trisha Yearwood, and Geoffrey Zakarian. 

As previously reported, Paula Deen is also set to appear at SOBEWFF on stage with her sons Bobby and Jamie, which is interesting as the event is sponsored by the Food Network.

Here is a list of events over the next four days, many of which are sold out already.  If anything interesting happens at the festival, I will do some posts about it over the weekend, but you can probably follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #SOBEWFF.