Chad Erpelding & Dave Ostlund, TC Food Finds
Saturday | Star Tribune Taste Stage Host
www.tcfoodfinds.com/

Chef Daniel Green
Sunday | Star Tribune Taste Stage Host
www.televisioncookery.com

Book signing following program.

In the Holiday Kitchen with Lee Svitak Dean
Saturday & Sunday | 10:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
Lee Svitak Dean is the longtime food editor of the award-winning Taste section and author of “Come One, Come All/ Easy Entertaining With Seasonal Menus,” which is a compilation of Taste menus and recipes. She blogs at www.startribune.com/tabletalk and runs the Star Tribune Taste Facebook fan page. Her work can also be seen at her web site, www.leedeanbooks.com.

Book signing following program.

Pairing Holiday Food and Wine with Bill Ward
Saturday & Sunday | 1:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
Bill Ward covered sports and entertainment before finding a home in food and wine writing. He won a James Beard Award in 2004 for a series on Italian regional cuisine and started a weekly wine and spirits column, Liquid Assets, and blog in January 2008. He also writes features articles for the Star Tribune.

Decorating the Holiday Table with Connie Nelson
Saturday & Sunday | 4:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
Connie Nelson is the Home+Garden and Sunday Homes editor for the Star Tribune and one of the Greengirls garden bloggers. She’s spent the last 20 years melding her dual loves – gardening and homemaking.

Holiday Baking with Kim Ode
Saturday & Sunday 11:45 Star Tribune Taste Stage
Kim Ode writes for the Taste and Variety sections of the Star Tribune, and has a number of other food-related interests. She’s written a bread cookbook, “Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club,” does food demonstrations at the Mill City Museum, Minnesota History Center, Minnesota State Fair, Cooks of Crocus Hill and other venues, hosts the monthly Edesia Cookbook Review at the Galleria Barnes & Noble, and writes a blog about cookbooks, edesiatestkitchen.blogspot.com. She also built a wood-fired brick bread oven in her backyard.

Book signing following program.

Entertaining the “Raw” way with Pure Market Express
Saturday & Sunday | 12:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
Rebecca Irey grew up on a 3000-acre cattle ranch she also concedes “I still don’t like vegetables”. Yet hers is the appetite that was won over by the life-giving, energy-boosting, weight-melting, soul-satisfying wonders of eating raw. Rebecca and her husband Quentin started Pure Market Express which prepares gourmet raw cuisine, to order, and delivers it fresh nationwide. www.puremarketexpresss.com

Jill Forster
Saturday & Sunday | 2:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
Jill Forster is the Imported Cheese Specialist of Kowalski’s Markets. Kowalski’s Markets have an incredible selection of artisan cheese from over 50 countries. With nine stores, you should always be able to satisfy your fromage desires. www.kowalskis.com

Holiday Turkey 5 ways- How the chefs do it using Wild Acres Farm
Saturday | 3:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
Alex Roberts – Restaurant Alma, Asher Miller – 20.21, Mike Decamp – La Belle Vie, Tracy Singleton – Birchwood Café, Lenny Russo – Heartland

Marjorie Johnson | Author of Blue Ribbon Baking
Sunday | 3:45 | Star Tribune Taste Stage
How she went from Blue Ribbon Baking to National television star

Saturday | 1-2pm | Book Signing in Border’s Signing Area

Weekly Dish Live Broadcast with Stephanie Hansen & Stephanie March, FM 107.1
Saturday | 1:00-2:00 | Lifestyle Stage
Stephanie Hansen has spent 20 years in the radio and publishing business. She is a partner in two printing companies, Printz.com and PostcardBuilder.com Stephanie is obsessed with all things food, from cooking to dining out to Top Chef. She is the mother of 11-year-old Ellie.

Stephanie March is the food editor of Minneapolis St paul Magazine and has rattled around the food industry for 15 years, doing everything from bartending to cleaning squid. She has written for local and national publications, including Mpls St. Paul Magazine and The Rake. She is married to a chef and the mother of four children.

“Weekly Dish” on FM 107.1 from 1-2pm each Saturday. www.fm1071.com

Shop Girls Live Broadcast with Allison Kaplan & Alexis Walkso, FM 107.1
Saturday | 11:00-1:00 | Lifestyle Stage
Style! Trends! Beauty! SALES! Local shopping expert Allison Kaplan along with shopping connoisseur Alexis Walsko give you the scoop on all things retail related every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on FM107.1. Don’t go shopping without us. www.1071fm.com

Live with Cheryl Kaye, 102.9FM WLTE
Sunday | 11:30-1:00 | Lifestyle Stage
Music, prizes and games.

Fashion Meets Confection
Saturday | 2:00 & 4:00 and Sunday | 1:00 & 4:00 | Lifestyle Stage
Fashion meets Confection will certainly be one show you don’t want to miss. Design and culinary students have teamed up to bring you the sweetest fashions to ever hit a runway! All of the designs are embellished with chocolate.

Cliché Fashion presented by Ignite Models Inc, VimLab & Rocco Altobelli
Saturday | 3:00 & Sunday | 2:00 | Lifestyle Stage
Cliché: Unique and Fun Local Designer Fashion. Ignite: Elite is best. Ignite Models scouts, develops and trains each of their handpicked models. Their portfolio includes models for every medium including: Commercial, Editorial, Print and Runway. VimLab: www.clichempls.com, ignitemodelsinc.com, www.vimlab.com, www.roccoaltobelli.com

Being Fashionably Green
Saturday | 11:00 & Sunday | 3:00 | Lifestyle Stage
Looking for something to wear to your upcoming holiday events but don’t want to purchase another one-time-only outfit? Come listen to il Vostro Boutique owner, Stacey Finnegan as she shares the latest in women’s fashions for this holiday season and how to recycle them into your wardrobe.