{"id":2581,"date":"2010-10-27T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2010-11-21T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:10:57","slug":"epcot-food-wine-2010-%e2%80%93-chef-robert-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=2581","title":{"rendered":"Epcot Food & Wine 2010 \u2013 Chef Robert Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food\u00a0Who: <\/strong>Robert Irvine, Dinner Impossible\u2122, Robert Irvine\u2019s eat! in Hilton Head SC<\/p>\n

Also: <\/strong>Jared, the chef du cuisine at eat!<\/p>\n

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Wine\u00a0Who:<\/strong> Ceclia Flores from Pascual Toso, Mendoza, Argentina<\/p>\n

What:<\/strong> Pascual Toso Malbec Reserve<\/p>\n

The Mendoza region is located at the foot of the Andes mountains. The area is semi-desert, very dry, yet great for growing grapes. The winery founder moved to this area in 1890 from Italy. The wine that we were tasting is 100% Malbec grapes (a uniquely argentinian grape), look for very sweet & soft tannins and tastes of blackberry. The wine is mostly aged in American oak.<\/p>\n

Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a real whirlwind – as I\u2019m sure anyone who\u2019s seen Chef Robert on television can appreciate; in person he\u2019s even more dynamic and irreverent. Chef Robert began by telling us about his new television projects and about how much he LOVES coming to Disney World. (Before the event began, we were told that guests sitting at the first seven tables would have to sign releases because we were being filmed by Disney and by the Food Channel.) I\u2019m not sure that Chef Robert got that memo because he was always moving through the audience with raw lamb, with a knife in his hand, with a bottle of wine, basically with whatever struck his fancy at that particular moment AND he didn\u2019t seem to respect any restriction to stay at the front of the audience.<\/p>\n

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An audience member helps Robert countdown to the start of the demonstration<\/p><\/div>\n

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Be Enthusiastic About Food!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Getting acquainted with the audience<\/p><\/div>\n

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Joking with Jared about the poor guy's hair & muscles<\/p><\/div>\n

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Demonstrating how you french the bones for a crown rack of lamb (this is when he was carrying a knife around in the audience - Disney was having a cow!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wash your knife steel after every use, especially if you're going to use it make a big hole in your eye of lamb<\/p><\/div>\n

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That's Marianne Hunnel on the far left, in addition to shepherding Robert around Epcot on his many visits for television, she also plans\/organizes the entire Food & Wine Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

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Robert has just dumped a huge pile of butter onto the cutting board and said "Now, if I was Paula Deen, here's where I'd say 'and we start with a lot of butter'!"<\/p><\/div>\n

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Disney CM's, all fans of Robert's; Marianne, the gentleman organizing Disneyland's Food & Wine Festival, and our announcer<\/p><\/div>\n

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At the end, Robert brought the youngest audience member up - to tell him to do his chores for his mom & to try to get a cut of the kid's allowance for this sage advice<\/p><\/div>\n

A few notes…<\/strong><\/p>\n