Jurgen also makes regular guest appearances --- as host, commentator and sometimes charity auctioneer.

Past appearances have included the Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Toronto Symphony (5-week Beethoven series), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Manitoba Opera Company, Winnipeg Symphony, Banff Writers’ Festival, Vancouver Writers’ & Readers’ Festival, Sechelt Festival of the Written Arts etc.

He enjoys addressing groups that range from the University of Toronto Law Faculty graduates, to the B.C. Surgical Society, to the International Mach Shock-wave Symposium, on his favourite subjects: food, wine and music.

Under his own name he has published four previous books, released four DiscDrive CDs and six video productions. He was recently profiled in a documentary for Troika Productions of Vancouver as part of the award-winning Pacific Profiles series, and was featured in the millennium issue of Chatelaine Magazine as one of 12 influential Canadians involved in food.

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