The taste of success: the South Beach Wine & Food Festival wrapped up its sixth consecutive year...

If one television mention can validate your place in the culinary world, it's Martha Stewart thanking you--by name--on her national morning show. Even better if that gratitude is followed by lots of gushing.

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So, when the domestic diva herself thanked Lee Schrager after the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, she confirmed what much of the international culinary--not to mention corporate--world already knew: this thing was really important. Schrager is the director of the festival, which finished its sixth consecutive year in