Culinary Demonstration with Emily Ellyn – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2014

This Epcot Food & Wine Experience took place on Wednesday, October 22, 2014

This was Walter’s first ever Culinary Demonstration. We expected beef but instead discovered that we were going to get chocolate! Again, the protein was changed but this time it morphed into sweets – wow.

Our Celebrity Chef was

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Andrew Zimmern Culinary Demonstration – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2014

this Epcot International Food & Wine experience took place on Saturday, October 11, 2014

Let’s start by saying that from Friday afternoon until Monday morning, Epcot is absolutely crazy during Food & Wine. We arrived well before noon for our 1:00 demo and they had already filled up the grassy areas between the

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Kevin Dundon Culinary Demonstration – Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2014

this culinary demonstration took place on Wednesday, October 1, 2014

This is the fifth year in a row that we’ve seen Kevin Dundon’s Culinary Demonstration at Food & Wine. And yes, he’s that good; he’s not only a great chef, he can demonstrate and talk and tell stories and banter all at the

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We have reservations for Epcot International Food & Wine Festival 2014!

We were able to get all of the reservations that we wanted, except two…

Dining Through the Decades: A Tribute to Walt Disney – we wanted reserved seating (the only way that doing events in the World Showplace is enjoyable for us), all sold out by the time I got to speak to a live

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thoughts and plans for Food & Wine 2014

Planning for Food & Wine is always exciting and at the same time a bit daunting…

How many special events do we want to do? How many special events fit into our schedule (we always seem to have lots of visitors during Food & Wine, and isn’t a given that they want to go to

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Let’s wrap this up, final thoughts

We like to look back at each year’s Epcot International Food & Wine Festival before we really charge into Holidays at Disney World – it really helps us when we start planning the next year’s Festival. Our “festival habits” have changed a lot in recent years…

2010 2011 2012 2013 Signature Dinners 2 1 0

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – A Good-Bye and Thank-You to the Festival Center Cast Members

I mentioned earlier that we attended the last Culinary Demonstration of the 2013 Epcot Food & Wine Festival… At the end of our demo, the cast members who had participated in the culinary demos, the wine demos, the cocktail demos, etc… were recognized for another successful Food & Wine. Pam Smith made it a point

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Culinary Demonstration with Michael Gonsalves from Golden Oak’s Summerhouse

Artisanal Hand Made Charcuterie and Cheese Board

Duck Pastrami, Bison Sausage, and Cow Girl Creamery Cheese with Artisanal Mustard and Craisin® Preserves

paired with

Iron Horse Estate Pinot Noir

David Munksgard & Pam Smith

It’s David from Iron Horse Vineyards (to avoid being redundant, here’s

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Culinary Demonstration – lobster “yes”, what we expected “no”

Well, this was supposed to be a lobster dish with Ben Sergeant… it wasn’t. It was a lobster dish with a Disney chef (we were trying to avoid the Disney chefs this year, their demos just aren’t as good – we don’t consider Kevin Dundon to be a Disney chef, he’s Ireland’s Chef!)…

Pam Smith

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2013 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival – Culinary Demonstration with Alisa Malavenda, POSH Salt(tm)

We did the POSH Salt Culinary Demo last year and were really impressed with the products and the presenters, so much so that it was one of our top two culinary demonstrations (the other one in the top two was Kevin Dundon 2012).

Salina Faris (?) wine presenter and Pam Smith (Walt Disney

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