14th World Gourmet Festival

In another move to enhance Thailand's reputation as a culinary hot spot in Asia, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is joining the Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok to promote this year's 14th World Gourmet Festival, to be held at Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok from September 2 to 8, 2013. Already confirmed are leading chefs and influential winemakers, and as the Festival approaches the list is set to grow.

Since its inception, the World Gourmet Festival has grown in prominence to feature an extraordinary line-up of some of the best chefs, winemakers and food experts from across the globe, all gathered together under one roof for a week-long celebration of outstanding cuisine and superb wines.

Currently confirmed to participate in the 14th Annual World Gourmet Festival are:

• Chef Markus Arnold, "MA Pop-Up Restaurants", Bern, Switzerland
• Chef Jérôme Bonnet, Restaurant Daniel,Paris, France
• Chef Roger van Damme, Het Gebaar, Antwerp, Belgium
• Ned Goodwin, Master of Wine, Japan
• Pascal Jolivet, winemaker, Domaine Pascal Jolivet, Sancerre, France
• Chef Hirohisa Koyama, Aoyagi, Tokyo, Japan
• Chef Miguel Laffan, L'AND,Alentejo, Portugal
• Chef Vito Mollica, Il Palagio, Four Seasons Hotel Firenze, Florence, Italy
• Chef Paco Perez, Miramar Restaurant, Llançà, Spain
• Chef David Rathgeber, Restaurant L'Assiette, Paris, France

Guests can also look forward to unique wine pairings at the dinners of Chef Jérôme Bonnet and Chef David Rathgeber. Chef Bonnet's cuisine will be paired with wines by Pascal Jolivet, and Chef Rathgeber's dinner will be paired with wines selected by Ned Goodwin.

In addition to the highlighted chef dinners, once again this year the lobby will play host to cooking demonstrations by the participating chefs in the Gaggenau show kitchen, as well as the much-loved World Gourmet Festival lunch and Sunday Brunch with cuisine from around the world.

Once again this year, the World Gourmet Festival supports HRH Princess Soamsawali's Save A Child's Life from AIDS Project under the auspices of the Thai Red Cross Society. THB 600.00 from the price of every World Gourmet dinner ticket, as well as proceeds from the World Gourmet live auction, will be donated to this charity.

The latest updates and further information about this year's festival will be available at www.worldgourmetfestivalbangkok.com as well as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.