Americas Test Kitchen Taping & Chef Ming Tsai Dinner + Airfare & Hotel. All proceeds benefit Feeding America Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 2,230.00 Time Left - Bid Count 31 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, November 14, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Boston, MA See more about 'Americas Test Kitchen Taping & Chef Ming Tsai Dinner' Description Auction     America's Test Kitchen Television Taping and Celebrity Chef Ming Tsai Experience Slip on your red apron and join the cast of America’s Test Kitchen as an extra* as they tape the 10th season of the hit public television series in their Boston area facility.  Hosted by Christopher Kimball, founder and editor of Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines, America’s Test Kitchen is the number one cooking show on public television. After the taping, prepare a short recipe or learn to master a technique with Christopher Kimball for your own personalized DVD.  The winner will also receive a special welcome basket from America’s Test Kitchen and a VIP tour of the test kitchen facility. America’s Test Kitchen is a real 2,500 square foot test kitchen located just outside of Boston that is home to more than three dozen full-time test cooks and product testers. With a simple mission to develop the absolute best recipes, they test each recipe 30, 40, and sometimes as many as 70 times until they arrive at the right combination of ingredients, technique, temperature, cooking time, and equipment that yields the best, most-foolproof recipe. This unforgettable experience gets even better as you join Christopher Kimball for dinner after the show at Ming Tsai’s Blue Ginger restaurant.  Get ready for an incredible culinary experience as Ming personally greets you and walks you through each course of his five-course tasting menu using the ingredients and cooking techniques of both the East and the West. A graduate of Yale University, Cornell University and Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, Ming Tsai has worked in kitchens around the globe and across the country.  He opened Blue Ginger in 1998 to rave reviews and was nominated as "Best New Restaurant 1998” and crowned "2002 Best Chef Northeast” by the James Beard Foundation.  Since 2002, the Zagat Restaurant Guide has rated Blue Ginger the second most popular Boston restaurant.  An Emmy-Award winner, Ming is the host and executive producer of the PBS cooking show, Simply Ming, currently in its sixth season. What is included? Round-trip coach airfare for two to Boston, MA from a major airport in the continental United States Transfers to/from the airport, to the America's Test Kitchen set, and Ming Tsai’s Blue Ginger Two-night accommodations (double occupancy) in the Boston area Participate as an extra (on set, in the background) during the taping of America’s Test Kitchen Taste the recipes cooked during the segment Cook with Christopher Kimball - short recipe or technique - for your own personalized DVD Photo shoot with the cast members VIP all-access tour of the America’s Test Kitchen facilities and set Welcome basket from America's Test Kitchen Dinner with Christopher Kimball at Ming Tsai’s Blue Ginger restaurant Special 5-course tasting menu prepared  at Blue Ginger and presented by Ming Tsai Dates valid: Mid-April to mid-May, 2009 while America’s Test Kitchen is taping their 10th season Does this package include travel? Airfare, accommodations and transfers are included. Special Details/Rules: Experience will take place while America's Test Kitchen tapes their 10th season from mid-April to mid-May 2009 Excludes Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays *Due to editing by America's Test Kitchen, the winner is not guaranteed to appear on the America's Test Kitchen television show Package Donated By: America’s Test Kitchen Ming Tsai 100% of all proceeds from the auction will benefit Feeding America. Feeding America is the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through its network of more than 200 member food banks, Feeding America annually provides assistance to more than 25 million people in need in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each year, Feeding America secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of food and grocery products to support feeding programs at approximately 50,000 local charitable agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters. 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