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Mendocino Coast Clinics Presents our 2008 Crab & Wine Festival Event Celebrity Judges. Chef Domenica Catelli has positively influenced the way millions of families eat and prepare food across the United States with her tasty, easy, healthy approach to cooking. Domenica is the national spokesperson for the Organic Trade Association’s 2008 national campaign, “Go Organic! for Earth Day.” She is a featured chef on Fox News in Houston for the "Fox Grill," she is an Iron Chef Judge, a guest on iVillage and “Oprah and Friends,” with Dr. Oz on XM radio, and has been featured in Vegetarian Times, Kiwi Magazine, and Oprah.com. She is among a select few accomplished chefs entrusted to cook with celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Thandie Newton, and George and Barbara Bush. Her first cookbook, “Mom-a-licious: Fresh fast, family food for the hot mama in you!” was published in Fall 2007.  Her contributions can also be seen in the James Beard award-winning cookbook, Back to the Table, by Art Smith, and on products in tens of thousands of grocery stores nationwide.   Domenica grew up in Sonoma county wine country, and has overseen restaurants in California from Laguna Beach to the Mendocino coast, where she served as executive chef of the organic restaurant Raven’s at the Stanford Inn/ Chef John Ash:  came to national prominence when he was selected by Food & Wine Magazine as one of America’s “Hot New Chefs.”   John is a nationally renowned wine and food educator, and served for many years as the Culinary Director for Fetzer and Bonterra Vineyards.  He has a new winery venture called Sauvignon Republic Cellars specializing in sauvignon blanc produced from regions around the world. http://www.chefjohnash.com/   Paul Lukacs:  is the wine editor for Saveur Magazine, educator and author of two books:  The Great Wines of America:  The Top Forty Vintners, Vineyards, and Vintages and American Vintage:  The Rise of American Wine.  Paul has written features, wine profiles and is a columnist for The Washington Times, since 1994.  He is a contributor to Wine Review Online, and coordinator/judge for the Old Ebbitt Grill’s International Wines for Oysters Competition in Washington D.C.  Paula also serves as the chair of the English department at Loyola College in Maryland. [http://www.saveur.com/] plukacs@winereviewonline.com   Sara Schneider:  wine editor for Sunset Magazine, since 2005, and oversees tasting panels, food and wine pairing in the test kitchen, wine-related food and travel coverage, and the magazine’s wine club.  Sara recently co-authored  California Wine Country, a Sunset Field Guide for Sunset Books.     Marguerite Thomas:  is a travel editor for The Wine News, and author of a monthly column “The Intrepid Gastronome,” for The Los Angeles Times International Syndicate.  She is author of a cookbook and of two books about wines in the Eastern U.S., and is a frequent contributor to national magazines.     Olivia Wu: a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle food & wine section.  She won the Association of Food Journalists awards for feature and column writing in 1991, 1992 and 2002, and has been a James Beard Foundation finalist for similar awards.  She wrote “The Grand Wok Cookbook,” and is a Tastemaker Award winner.