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Our tickets and seating… We attended our first Sweet Sundays with Lisa and Andy near the very end of the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. The guest chef was Warren Brown and we were eager to see if the food preparation was on par with the sheet cake from the day before continue reading Sweet Sundays – Warren Brown, CakeLove – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Warren Brown, CakeLove, Washington, DC November 10, 2012 Wine: Jarvis Merlot David Crane, Presenter Jarvis Merlot Talking about Merlot… the movie “Sideways”, while not at all favorable to California Merlot, had the positive effect of causing a lot of bad California Merlots to be “weeded out”… The Merlot grape was originally used continue reading Culinary Demonstration – Warren Brown, CakeLove – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Glenn O’Brien, Boma – Flavors of Africa, Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge November 12, 2012 Spice Route “Chakalaka”, South Africa Jim Killems, fun guy and wine educator Spice Route Chakalaka We’ve written a lot about South Africa wines over the last few years (here, here, and here), particularly Spice Route wines. Lisa and continue reading Culinary Demonstration – Boma’s – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Spinach pocket – doesn’t look like much, does it? Spinach and Paneer Cheese Pocket We had tasted this earlier in the Festival and had been impressed with it – we were with a large group that day and were quite hungry. So we decided to try it again and see if it really continue reading South Africa Booth – Spinach and Paneer Cheese Pocket – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Italian Regional Lunch Tutto Gusto Wine Cellar Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Menu for today’s Italian Regional Lunch (it changes every week) Tutto Gusto is a bar during the day and a bar + the full Tutto Italia menu at night. We’ve been here a few times right after they first opened (here and continue reading Italian Regional Lunch – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Tyskie Beer Tyskie beer isn’t a lager, but since it was paired with the zapiekanki we gave it a try anyway (hey! beer is usually good and is sometimes quite good). Nora thought it had a sweeter finish than most beers/ales and that it wasn’t very hoppy (that’s a good thing). Nick thought continue reading Poland Booth – Tyskie Beer – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Zapiekanki – “cheese toast” Zapiekanki – Toasted mushroom, carmelized onion, and cheese bread with house-made ketchup We tried this twice – once when we were looping the booths with a large group of friends (we thought it was wonderful, we were famished) and again on a quiet afternoon, just the two of us continue reading Poland Booth – Zapiekanki – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Selbach-Oster – Mosel, Germany Johannes Selbach, Owner and Winemaker Riesling grapes are great because you can make wines that range from super sweet to very dry, and they are balanced wines. The quality levels are on German labels (see here for lists of Selbach-Oster wines) – missed the first word; Kabinett – regular harvest, continue reading Beverage Seminar – Selbach-Oster Winery – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … White Corn Arepa White Corn Arepa with Mangalista Pork Rillette and Zellwood Sweet Corn Salad The corn salad was better than expected, sweet and crisp. Nora liked the first few bites of the arepa, even though it was very greasy. Nick’s initial reaction was “yuck, salty.” As nora got a bigger bite of continue reading Florida Local Booth – White Corn Arepa – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … Steamed Mussels in Hoegaarden Beer Broth Steamed Mussels in Hoegaarden Beer Broth with Baguette We both like mussels. The critical question is “are these mussels good?” – yes, they’re good. Are they great, nope. The broth was watery and didn’t really add anything, the creamy broth from previous years added more texture and continue reading Belgium Booth – Steamed Mussels – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012 … |
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