{"id":8623,"date":"2013-04-28T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2013-04-28T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:28:41","slug":"extra-extra-read-all-about-it-april-28-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"Extra! Extra! Read All About It! &#8211; April 28, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=8312\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8312\" alt=\"Paper_Boy_clip_art_medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Paper_Boy_clip_art_medium.png\" width=\"183\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Paper_Boy_clip_art_medium.png 183w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Paper_Boy_clip_art_medium-92x150.png 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t gone over to FlipBoard and signed up for an account, why not? It&#8217;s particularly good for two reasons&#8230; (1) following @extrawdwmagic on twitter (or anyone else you follow on twitter) and (2) we put more articles into our weekly magazines than we do here on our Sunday Round-up\u00a0(you can get the app for your iPhone and\/or your iPad\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipboard.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) where we&#8217;re &#8220;<strong>Adults Exploring Disney World<\/strong>&#8221; or &#8220;<strong>Adults Extra Walt Disney World Magic<\/strong>&#8221; and on twitter where we&#8217;re\u00a0<strong>@extrawdwmagic<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This week, we visited two of the food booths at the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8292\" target=\"_blank\">The Bauernmarkt<\/a> in Germany was a bit disappointing, nothing was a really huge hit from their offerings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=8287\" target=\"_blank\">The Cottage<\/a> located between Canada and the UK has a great baked brie and the ginger &amp; tea trifle is particularly tasty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Observation&#8230; We were at Epcot several days this week, the food booths were basically DEAD. We suspect it&#8217;s because guests aren&#8217;t arriving at Epcot expecting festival food booths. There hasn&#8217;t been much advertisement or marketing here-abouts, there are billboards with a tagline &#8220;taste of spring&#8221; BUT that doesn&#8217;t clearly tell anyone that there are food booths at the Flower &amp; Garden Festival AND it&#8217;s in a color and font size that make reading it from a moving vehicle difficult. Although we&#8217;ve been a bit underwhelmed by some of the food offerings, the food overall is of better quality and taste than during the Food &amp; Wine Festival (blasphemy?!). Also, the Flower and Garden Festival food is better suited to warm spring temperatures than the Food &amp; Wine Festival food is suited to the warm, dare I say HOT, temperatures in October\/November. At this point, we&#8217;re simply hoping that the accountants\/bean-counters will give the food booths at the Flower &amp; Garden Festival another year or two at least (and that the marketing people get their act together and let people know that food booths are part of the festival).<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8537\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=8537\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8537\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8537\" alt=\"interior of Baked Goat's Brie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Cottage-Booth-at-Epcot-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-2013-16.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Cottage-Booth-at-Epcot-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-2013-16.jpg 640w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Cottage-Booth-at-Epcot-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-2013-16-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Cottage-Booth-at-Epcot-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-2013-16-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The-Cottage-Booth-at-Epcot-Flower-and-Garden-Festival-2013-16-400x281.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from The Cottage &#8211; Baked Goats Brie with Kumquat Chutney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the ether&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Still on the subject of the food booths at the Flower and Garden Festival&#8230; Disney Parks Blog has <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyparks.disney.go.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/top-five-best-selling-dishes-at-the-epcot-international-flower-garden-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">a quick list of the top five sellers thus far<\/a>&#8230; The top two are two of our favorites thus far<\/li>\n<li>Continuing on with more about Animal Kingdom&#8217;s 15th Anniversary, Main Street Gazette had two items this week&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>A transcript of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstgazette.com\/2013\/04\/natures-value.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rhode&#8217;s address<\/a> to Cast Members on the 10th Anniversary of Disney&#8217;s Animal Kingdom theme park<\/li>\n<li>A review of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstgazette.com\/2013\/04\/african-starr.html\" target=\"_blank\">African Starr cocktail at Sanaa<\/a> (yes, Sanaa is at Kidani Village Animal Kingdom Lodge, but it closely ties into Animal Kingdom theme park)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monsters University opens on June 21st and there is more information being dribbled out&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Disney Insider has the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.disney.com\/insider\/articles\/2013\/04\/09\/the-story-behind-the-story-of-monsters-university\/\" target=\"_blank\">Story Behind the Story of Monsters University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Fb1IzsOAHs&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer #3<\/a> has been released<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We enjoyed our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=7502\" target=\"_blank\">dinner with an Imagineer<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?p=7501\" target=\"_blank\">Flying Fish Cafe<\/a>, the Disney Company blog has a brief interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/blog\/disney-springs-imagineer-shares-his-disney-journey\" target=\"_blank\">the Imagineer heading up Disney Springs<\/a> (conversion or refurbishment of Downtown Disney)<\/li>\n<li>Sarah from Eating WDW helped keep us busy this week&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230; checked <a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/04\/24\/earl-of-sandwichs-breakfast-ham-swiss\/\" target=\"_blank\">another sandwich<\/a> off of her #2013eateachsandwich challenge from Earl of Sandwich (I&#8217;ve had an even dozen now, there will be a flurry of posts coming up in a few weeks about sandwiches, sandwiches, sandwiches)<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; reminded us of an old favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/04\/25\/kringla-bakeri-og-kafes-school-bread\/\" target=\"_blank\">School Bread<\/a>, we haven&#8217;t eaten one in quite a while, they seem smaller than when we first had it in 2002<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; shared <a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/04\/26\/new-dinner-menu-at-sanaa\/\" target=\"_blank\">the new menu for Sanaa<\/a>, thankfully the changes are much smaller than originally anticipated<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; introduced us to the <a href=\"http:\/\/eatingwdw.com\/2013\/04\/23\/la-cava-del-tequilas-horchata-margarita\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horchata Margarita at La Cava Del Tequila<\/a>, which I had on Friday afternoon with the trio of dips (shared with nick)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8614\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/?attachment_id=8614\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8614\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8614\" class=\" wp-image-8614 \" alt=\"Horchata Margarita\" src=\"http:\/\/www.extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BIzfW1pCcAA3Qak.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BIzfW1pCcAA3Qak.jpg 600w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BIzfW1pCcAA3Qak-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BIzfW1pCcAA3Qak-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extrawdwmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BIzfW1pCcAA3Qak-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horchata Margarita<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week&#8230; Thank you for reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t gone over to FlipBoard and signed up for an account, why not? 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