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Looking for the coolest culinary event
on earth? You might consider a Janu-
ary jaunt to Greenough, Montana.
There, The Resort at Paws Up hosts
an annual WinterFest celebration,
and the upcoming event, held Janu-
ary 25–28, 2018, features the winner
of Bravo’s Top Chef 2017 season,
Chef Brooke Williamson.
As a regular visiting chef to The Re-
sort, Williamson will be headlining
three and a half days of intimate
cooking demonstrations, gourmet
feasts, tastings with winemaker
Ehren Jordan and evenings
filled with live local music.
She’ll be creating an en-
ticing, mouthwatering
menu with help from
The Resort’s Execu-
tive Chef Ben Jones,
a
James
Beard
House
headlining
chef.
Whether you visit dur-
ing WinterFest or an-
other time this season,
the colder months are a great time to
witness the beauty of Montana while
dining on fine cuisine. sausage Gnarly Burger with egg and
mascarpone cheese makes for an
amazing way to wake up.”
A passionate advocate of the local
food movement, Jones sources much
of his ingredients from area farmers.
“I tend to get very comfy in the win-
ter,” Jones says. “We have an emu
stew for lunch that’s incredible.” For
breakfast? “The bison-and-pork- It’s all served against a backdrop of in-
credible snow-covered scenery. The
wide-open spaces feel larger in a blan-
ket of white, and the beautiful Big Sky
sparkles when it snows. Explore
37,000 acres on snowmobile, dogsled
or the back of a horse. If you decide to
try Paws Up’s newest winter activity,
skijoring, you’ll be pulled on skis by a
horse. Call it Norwegian-style “water-
skiing.”
There are also horse-drawn
sleigh rides, ice skating, cross-
country skiing, sporting clays
shooting, private indoor
equestrian lessons, hiking,
archery, snowshoeing and,
of course, sitting in your
own private outdoor hot
tub under a starlit sky.
Find all kinds of wintery ad-
venture, culinary and out-
door, at pawsup.com.