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2pm Chef Howard Kirk of 13 Gypsies

3pm Jeffrey Spear, cookbook author and owner of Studio Spear.

4pm Chef Amadeus of Southern Passion Spices and Winner of Food Network’s Extreme Chef Mexican Showdown

5pm Chef Ashley Amin, owner and chef of Jacksonville’s Fusion Food Truck and "Top Indian Chef" of San Diego 2009

6pm Florence Haridan of Conscious Eats

COOKING STAGE

The Gospel of Brew Sessions11:30am & 12:30pm The Beer Apostle, Brian Little, and James Moriarty of Veterans

United Craft Brewery talk beer, so you too can get your start as a proud home brewer.

Taste and Learn Sessions: Cupping Locally Roasted Coffee with Bold Bean1:15pm, 2:15pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm Tickets are $5.00 and are available on Eventbrite. Bold Bean Coffee Roasters will do cuppings with four different

roasts per session. If you can’t live without a good cup of coffee this is for you! Learn about the different nuances of these wonderful and locally roasted coffees.

Real Bread Workshop3:30pm Community Loaves presents a workshop on the mysteries of

sourdough bread-making, and why, sometimes, the old ways are the most delicious ways!

(ABOVE GREASE RAGS CLOTHING)

11am to 12:45pm Educational Shorts from TedEd

1pm Food and Social Good Panel Discussion

2:30pm Getting Started with Beekeeping

3:30pm North Florida Rice: Yesterday and Today

4:30pm The Benefits of Supporting Local Agriculture

5pm How to Eat Sustainably in Jacksonville

5:30pm Eat a Fish, Save the Reefs

6pm Great Traditions: The Roots and Recipes of Amazing Southern Food

7pm St. Augustine Distillery Short Film

7:45pm Eat Drink Man Woman

7 p.m. at The Candy Apple Cafe at Sweet Pete's Tickets are $35, and are available on Eventbrite. The

GastroJax Cocktail Contest will focus solely on craft cocktails created using locally sourced spirits and ingredients. Each of the five cocktail samples will use Palm Ridge Whiskey. The competitors are: The Candy Apple Cafe, Bistro AIX, Grape & Grain Exchange, bb's and Sidecar. There will be both a juried and people’s choice winner. Come support GastroJax and enjoy great cocktail samples, live music, and yummy appetizers! Celebrate local with the best in libations!

COOKBOOKS AT CHAMBLIN’S Chamblin’s Uptown on Laura Street will be featuring local cookbooks, many of which will be signed by the authors.

12pm to 2:30pm JEFFREY SPEAR, the author of two cookbooks and will be on hand to sign locally focused "The First Coast Heritage Cookbook," featuring some great recipes updated for the modern cook, with a fascinating look at the cuisine of early inhabitants of the First Coast (through the settling of St. Augustine).

2:30pm to 3:30pm Through much discovery, determination, and love, CHEF DENNIS CHAN has brought to those that frequent his restaurant, Blue Bamboo, (and now you) uniquely warm and non-fussy experiences in his award winning cookbook entitled “Hip Asian Comfort Food”. Experiences he hopes you will share with your loved ones as you discover that food does not have to be complicated to be satisfying to the soul.

KID’S & EDUCATION ZONE AT VISIT JACKSONVILLE11am to 4:30pm Our Kids’ Area during the Festival will be in, and around, Visit Jacksonville on Laura Street. Inside Visit Jacksonville, we have bees under glass from the Jacksonville Beekeepers Association and fun “food” art stations from Melrose Avenue Preschool. Outside, near Visit Jacksonville on Laura Street we'll have the Duval County Extension Office on-site, with materials to make radish necklaces, start seedlings in toilet paper rolls, and information on growing herbs in North Florida. Kids will also get the chance to see the chickens from urban chicken farmers, River City Chicks, and ask questions on how to raise the chickens. There will also be a giant chess and an oversized checkers set, as well as the Imagination Playground, set up on Laura Street!

BEER:30 HOMEBREW COMPETITIONSession 1: 2:45-3:45pmSession 2: 6:45-7:45pm The Beer Apostle hosts this homebrew competition. It's

first come, first serve! Taste what locals have been brewing, and vote for your favorite beer. A People's Choice and Judges’ Choice Award will be announced on the Mainstage at 8:15 p.m.

9-0-4 WHISKEY TASTING FROM PALM RIDGE DISTILLERY 4pm Learn about and enjoy Florida whiskey during our Palm

Ridge Reserve "9-0-4" Whiskey Tasting! Come taste 9-month aged, Virgin (0 month/non-aged), and 4-month aged whiskeys with the Palm Ridge Reserve owners and distillers themselves, Marti and Dick Waters.

VEGAN CHEESE & WINE FLIGHT 5:30pm Tickets are $17 and available on EventBrite.

Limited availability. Taste vegan-certified wines and locally crafted, artisan, vegan cheese from SunRAWise.

FLORIDA WINES FROM SAN SEBASTIAN WINERY8pm -10pm Try samples of our local wines and get to know San

Sebastian Winery. They will also be raffling off a basket filled with local snacks, chocolates, and wine!

FREE events inside the MOCA Jacksonville Theater

SPECIAL EVENTS TENT

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM TOUGH JUNKIE

12:20 PM to 1:20 PM JACKSONVEGAS

1:40 PM to 2:40 PM TAMBOR

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM TROPIC OF CANCER

4:20 PM to 5:20 PM EAST CHINA SEA

5:40 PM to 6:40 PM COUGAR BARREL

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM TOMBOI

8:15 PM HOMEBREW WINNERS (Audience Favorite and Judges Favorite)

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM DR. SIRBROTHER

MUSIC STAGE

WELCOME TO

GASTROFEST 2015GASTROJAX CRAFT COCKTAIL CONTEST