Desserts & Champage Booth – Dessert Trio – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

Trio of desserts

Dark Chocolate Mousse with Chili and Salted Caramel; Yogurt Panna Cotta with Orange Cake, Raspberries, and Pomegranate; and Lemon Custard Verrine with Blueberry Compote

Originally, nora was insistent on trying the Dark Chocolate Mousse with Chili and Salted Caramel, the other two weren’t that interesting to her (after all, she’s

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Sweet Sundays – Warren Brown, CakeLove – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2012

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

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Culinary Demonstration – 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

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Yuletide Fantasy Tour 2012

Taking a tour early this morning – Yuletide Fantasy! The holidays start in earnest …

We took this tour two years ago (here); we had some criticisms and we’ll focus on changes when we blog about this year’s Yuletide Fantasy tour.

Culinary Demonstration – Boma’s – 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

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South Africa Booth – Spinach and Paneer Cheese Pocket – 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

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Italian Regional Lunch – 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

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Poland Booth – Tyskie Beer – 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

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Poland Booth – Zapiekanki – 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

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Beverage Seminar – Selbach-Oster Winery – 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,

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