NYIT president/CEO
Dr. Edward Guiliano, Fox 5
meteorologist Jim Castillo and
Mireille Guiliano
Photo
by Tom Ferraro |
NEW YORK
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Food
and Wine Mavens
Earn Peer Recognition
By Edward T. Callaghan
 HE
sumptuous Professional
Excellence Awards Ceremony Dinner was the highlight of the
sixth annual Gold Coast Food
& Wine Classic held in the Gatsby-esque splendor of the
deSeversky Mansion on the Old Westbury campus of New York
Institute of Technology (NYIT).
Dr. Edward Guiliano,
NYIT’s president and CEO presented Professional Excellence
Awards for Oenology to Warren Winiarski, owner of Stag’s
Leap Wine Cellars in Napa Valley, and Fabrizio Bianchi and his daughter Laura Bianchi of Tuscany’s
Castello di Monsanto.
Dr. Barbara
Ross-Lee, dean of
New York College of Osteopathic
Medicine/NYCOM, and Jim Castillo
Photo
by Tom Ferraro |
Chef
Daniel
Boulud, of Daniel and
Café Boulud in Manhattan, received the Culinary
Professional Excellence Award.
DeSeversky executive
chef Robert Rizzuto
presided over the lavish reception in the historic residence,
situated on acres of lush lawns and gardens.
Guests strolled along the
porticos and library feasting on hors d’oeuvres of foie gras,
salmon tartar with osetra caviar and a veritable smorgasbord of
Maine lobster, crabs, oysters and caviar.
Veuve Clicquot Yellow
Label Brut NV flowed freely as Mireille
Guiliano, president of Clicquot
Inc. (and wife of NYIT president Guiliano), looked on
approvingly.
Hank and Constance Schwartz,
executive director of Nassau County
Museum of Art |
The awardees did double
duty helping noted auctioneer David
Reynolds with over 40 lots, including rare wines and wine
tours, trips to Italy, Mexico, elegant spas and Champagne Veuve
Cliquot’s exclusive “Yelloween” party at the San Francisco
Ritz Carlton.
The evening, the
culmination of several days of tastings and an exclusive
winemakers’ and chefs’ dinner at Daniel, raised over $470,000 for NYIT’s college scholarship
programs.
Among the glittering
crowd were Angela Anton, Joy Billhardt,
Richard Elia, Roger Gimbel, Tom
Jurgielewicz, Phyllis and
Stanley Kreitman, Brian Shore, and Fox Five’s
Jim Castillo. |
