Celebrate the Craft culinary festival returns

Kelli Crosson, new executive chef at the Lodge at Torrey Pines at a past Celebrate the Craft event.

March 20, 2022 6:30 AM PT

The Lodge at Torrey Pines hosts its 2022 Celebrate the Craft culinary festival on April 3, an annual food and wine festival that celebrates chefs, farmers, artisan foodmakers, wineries, breweries and distilleries in an outdoor setting on the resort’s terrace.

This year’s event, which celebrates the Lodge’s 20th anniversary, will be helmed for the first time by the hotel’s new executive chef Kelli Crosson and chef Jeff Jackson, the Lodge’s former executive chef who recently moved into a new position as corporate culinary adviser for Evans Hotels. Also featured at the event will be chefs Drew Deckman, Jack Fisher, Greg Frey Jr., Antonio Friscia, Eric Gallerstein, Tim Kolanko, Jarod Moiles, Mike Reidy, Steven Riemer, Jojo Ruiz, Andrew Spurgin and Shihomi Borillo.

Tickets to the event are $195 and include food, beverages, take-home gifts and free valet parking. A portion of ticket sales will benefit Slow Food Urban San Diego, a non-profit organization that raises public awareness and improves access to local, seasonal and sustainably grown food. Visit lodgetorreypines.com.

Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.