On the Saturday night of our annual foray, we'll be visiting the Sunrise Resort at the foot of the ski area, where young Apache/Navajo chef Nephi Craig is gaining nationwide renown for his culinary inventiveness. A classically trained chef who used to work at the famous Mary Elaine's at the Phoenician, he has returned to his ancestral homelands to combine the best European cooking techniques with the bounty of wild-foraged ingredients that the Native Americans depended on for millennia. 

• Video Link: Chef Craig in his own words 
  

From elk and trout, to locally foraged porcini and chanterelle mushrooms, to acorn flour, squash blossoms, and amaranth, his cooking combines the best traditions of the Old and New Worlds.

• Video Link: Chef Craig on the Spirit of Food
  

Combined with a selection of superb Arizona wines ($25 surcharge), this should be a night to remember.