Four Chefs Duke It Out Over Lunch

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Daniel Sogg
Issue: December 31, 2005

It was billed as a meal, but the Wine Experience's final tasting seminar, "Lunch With the Four Chefs," held on Oct. 22, was actually culinary blood sport. When Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse, Wolfgang Puck and Charlie Trotter all returned to the Wine Experience to match talents—and wits—for the second year in a row, barbs filled the air as thickly as smoke from a kitchen fire.