InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Launches Exclusive "Kitchen Passport" Culinary Experience

This fall InterContinental Hotels & Resorts will issue an exclusive "Kitchen Passport" to a carefully curated group of influential bloggers who will work alongside the brand's top restaurant chefs and mixologists to craft new food and drink recipes for the InterContinental Kitchen Cookbook iPad app. The all-new program, which will be hosted at InterContinental Hotels in Atlanta, San Francisco and Miami, is yet another way the hotel brand continues to elevate its world-class food and beverage program, while offering users of its popular iPad app access to fresh and inspiring recipes created by InterContinental Hotels' executive chefs from around the world. The InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta is the first of the four InterContinental Hotels to host this experience. The property recently invited Anne Dolce, cook editor of The Daily Meal to venture into the kitchen of its restaurant Southern Art to develop new dishes with acclaimed chef and restaurateur Art Smith. The culinary duo worked together to create an appetizer, entrée and dessert. These new dishes reflect the Southern-inspired cuisine of the restaurant's menu, which is a blend of Smith's Southern cooking heritage, true love for Southern comfort food and strong commitment to serving traditional classics prepared with his light, modern approach. Dolce also worked with resident mixologist Arianne Fielder at the InterContinental Buckhead's Bourbon Bar to craft two specialty bourbon cocktails to complement the dishes. The savory dishes and bourbon cocktails will be unveiled this evening at an intimate tasting event and served as part of a special menu in celebration of the one year anniversary of Southern Art and Bourbon Bar. The recipes will be available for all to download and enjoy on the InterContinental's Kitchen Cookbook iPad app mid-October.