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eNewsbriefs: Regent Seven Seas Cruises

03-28-2008

This issue focuses on gourmet dining and features news of an exclusive opportunity for RSSC guests to experience award-winning cuisine, cooking secrets and hands-on demonstrations from some of the country’s hottest chefs in 2008. Also included are details of RSSC’s partnership with legendary French culinary institute Le Cordon Bleu®, which will be celebrated throughout 2008 through special Circles of Interest enrichment programs aboard the 700-guest, all-suite, all-balcony ships Seven Seas Voyager and Seven Seas Mariner, each of which feature Signatures, the only Le Cordon Bleu restaurants at sea, and 490-guest, all-suite Seven Seas Navigator.

Regent Seven Seas will proudly welcome two American heroes aboard its 2009 Grand Circumnavigation World Cruise. One of two history-making world cruises RSSC will offer next year, the sailing will feature NASA astronauts Charles Duke and Edgar Mitchell, two of only 12 individuals to ever have walked on the moon. These history-making heroes will offer special lectures and activities aboard Seven Seas Voyager.

We welcome your questions and comments.

Sincerely,

Brian Major and Emily Saladino
MMG Mardiks (PR for Regent)
RegentNewsroom@mmgmardiks.com

March 2008 ~ Issue 4

America’s Hottest Chefs join  RSSC in 2008
This summer, Regent Seven Seas Cruises is inviting its guests to join two of the country’s hottest celebrity chefs as they conduct demonstrations, lead food shopping excursions to local markets, and teach guests to prepare their signature cuisine, all in an atmosphere of luxury.

Guests traveling aboard all-suite, all-balcony Seven Seas Voyager this summer can participate in a “Spotlight on Food and Wine” enrichment program featuring Cathal Armstrong, owner of Virginia’s Restaurant Eve. Profiled in Food + Wine as one of America’s top 10 young chefs, Armstrong will accompany a Mediterranean culinary odyssey along with French wine expert Stephane Vivier and renowned fromagier Max McCalman. Guests will learn the secrets of gourmet food and wine as they sip sherry in its native Cadiz, celebrate port in Portugal, and salute the cuisines of France and Spain.

Chef Michel Richard of Washington, D.C. is owner of hotspots Citronelle and Central Michel Richard. Featured in the April 2008 issue of Food + Wine, Richard was recently recognized by The New York Times for Central Michel Richard, one of 10 American “restaurants that count.” This summer, Richard will host a “Spotlight on Food and Wine” enrichment program from Seward to Vancouver, B.C. aboard Seven Seas Mariner. Richard will feature offer Continental surprises with demonstrations and a special tasting menu for Regent guests.

Both chefs have just been nominated for the 2008 James Beard Foundation awards.

Above, right: Chef Cathal Armstrong; Left: Chef Michel Richard

 

For more information on these voyages, please follow these links:
http://www.rssc.com/voyage/details.jsp?code=VOY080609;
http://www.rssc.com/voyage/details.jsp?code=MAR080716


NASA moonwalkers aboard 2009 Grand Circumnavigation World Cruise
Regent Seven Seas Cruises will offer guests a rare opportunity to travel with two of only 12 individuals to ever have walked the surface of the moon, National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Charles Duke and Edgar Mitchell. These genuine American heroes will be the featured guests aboard Seven Seas Voyager’s April 18 to May 8, 2009 Istanbul-to-Fort Lauderdale voyage, the final segment of the ship’s 116-night Grand Circumnavigation World Cruise.

“We went to the moon as technicians, we returned humanitarians,” said Dr. Mitchell, who served as lunar module pilot for the 1971 Apollo 14 mission during which he became the sixth man to walk on the moon. A scientist, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Mitchell is a member of the Astronaut Hall of Fame and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Dr. Mitchell also founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, dedicated to seeking new understanding of the human condition resulting from space exploration.


Charles Duke was lunar module pilot for Apollo 16, the first expedition to survey the moon’s rugged Descartes region. In 1972, he became the 10th and youngest man ever to walk the surface of the moon, performing his mission with great enthusiasm and humor. He has been delighting audiences ever since as a motivational speaker and author of the book Moonwalker. Dr. Duke is a recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.

Above, left: Charles Duke; Right: Edgar Mitchell

 

For more information on this voyage, please follow this link:
http://www.rssc.com/specials/detail.jsp?offerId=1785597


Le Cordon Bleu Partnership
Regent Seven Seas Cruises guests not only travel the world, they also enjoy the best of international cuisine through two major programs. Through an affiliation with France’s prestigious Le Cordon Bleu cooking school, Regent offers Signatures, the only permanent Le Cordon Bleu restaurants at sea, aboard Seven Seas Mariner and Seven Seas Voyager.

Regent guests also learn sacred cooking secrets and history first-hand from worldwide experts via Le Cordon Bleu’s "Classes Culinaires des Croiseres" and other food-and-wine themed voyages offered through Regent’s Circles of Interest enrichment program. "Classes Culinaires des Croiseres" feature workshops of no more than 12 guests, along with shore-side visits to local food markets, and are offered from January to September, 2008 aboard  Seven Seas Mariner and Seven Seas Voyager. Regent is also featuring food and wine Circles of Interest voyages featuring other celebrated gourmets including former White House chef Walter Scheib, who will host “Presidential Culinary Secrets under the Mediterranean Sun” aboard Seven Seas Navigator in June, and Napa Valley celebrity chef Cindy Pawlcyn, who will host “Mediterranean Food Odyssey,” also aboard Seven Seas Navigator in June.  


Did you know?
Regent Seven Seas Cruises shipboard attire ranges from Country Club casual to informal to formal. Country Club casual (resort-style attire) is appropriate for daytime on board or ashore. Evening attire can be Country Club casual, informal (sport coat and tie recommended), or formal (black tie optional).

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