EAT! Vancouver, The Everything Food + Cooking Festival is back for another year on April 22, 23 & 24th, 2005 at BC Place Stadium.

Highlights for this year's festival include celebrity chefs preparing creative dishes, a competition for the title of CityTV's Master Chef, demonstrations in ice carving and sushi making, and a barbecue recipe Q & A with the award winning barbecuist Ron Shewchuk.

There will also be various boutique exhibitors displaying their latest exciting new additions for the suburban household kitchen: cookware, gadgetry and much much more.

When you get tired, slow down, taste some great wines, beers and spirits in the Tidings Magazine Tasting Pavilion and sit, relax and be entertained by food & wine experts as they deliver lectures, conduct wine tastings and food pairings.

Local celebrities featured in this year's event:

David Hawksworth, Executive Chef at West and Chef of the Year in the recent Vancouver Magazine Awards

Hidekazu Tojo, Executive Chef/Owner of Tojo's Restaurant

Scott Jager, Executive Chef/Owner of the Pear Tree Restaurant

Jamie Maw, Vancouver Magazine's Food editor and producer of Vancouver Cooks

Other celebrities:

Tony De Luca, Hildebrand - Winery Executive Chef and author of Recipes from Wine Country

Chef Ted Reader, The BBQ King & host of The King of the Q - Grilling Adventures series on CTV

Julie Van Rosendaal, author of Grazing & One Smart Cookie

Chef Naz Cavallaro, Toronto's BBQ Naz

EAT! Vancouver is being held in BC Place Stadium Friday, 2 pm to 9 pm; Saturday, 11 am to 9 pm; and Sunday, 11 am to 6 pm