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    A dinner to remember in the ‘Man Cave’
    Opulent place settings await guests of the Naples Winter Wine Festival vintner dinner, hosted by Nena and Bill Beynon, in the Naples “Man Cave” owned by Jim Dixon on Friday, Jan. 26. Photos by Chris Tilley
    Local News, Naples Winter Wine Festival
    By Harriet Howard Heithaus harriet.heithaus@naplespress.com  
    2 February 2024
    NAPLES WINTER WINE FESTIVAL

    A dinner to remember in the ‘Man Cave’

    The journalist and photographer covering a Naples Winter Wine Festival vintner dinner face painful choices every time: either to stay out in the reception area, listening to the guests recall what brought them to their first wine festival and admiring the floral-laden tables, the wine cellar and the yummies being passed (oh, and that wine: crystal glasses with offerings of tantalizing deep cranberry and the sunny side of clear); or to scrunch in a corner of the kitchen and watch the magic. Chef John Tesar (TEE-zar), the chef at this dinner, was inspecting the first appetizers. Every morsel on his trays serves a purpose. A live stream of vintner dinner kitchens during the Naples Winter Wine Festival could bring in even more money for the children’s causes it serves—and the people who watch them would be better cooks.

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