As the South Beach Wine and Food Festival returns to Miami in 2024, here's what you need to know about tickets, dates, events, celebrity guests and more.
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Famous South Beach event started at FIU by legendary professor
South Beach Wine & Food Festival® marks its 20th anniversary
This year, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival
® celebrates its 20th anniversary on the sands of South Beach. But did you know before the Festival blossomed into the world-renowned event it is today, it got its start five years earlier at FIU s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management on the Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC)?
The roots of SOBEWFF
® started in 1997 when late FIU hospitality professor Patrick Chip Cassidy brought founder Harvey Chaplin and Mel Dick of Southern Wine & Spirits and Marvin Shanken of Wine Spectator Magazine in to sponsor the one-day wine and food festival called the Florida Extravaganza.