The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 114

New Disney festival will be celebration of food and wine A few years ago, Walt Disney World ended the annual wine festival that brought well-known winemakers from around the world to Central Florida for a weekend celebration of wine and food. Disney has been out of the wine festival business since, but officials hope a new era of wine and food festivals will begin Saturday with the opening of the first Epcot International Food and Wine Festival Carta Wytmar, manager of the festival, is quick food market; and wine regions, which will most closely resemble the typical wine tasting event What will not be typical is that all tastes will cost in addition to the regular $40.81 admission to the park. Each time you want to sample a dish or a glass of wine, there will be a $1 or $2 charge. With more than 180 domestic and international vintages over the monthlong event, it could get pretty pricey. There will be "free" seminars open to Epcot guests.

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Use a doggy bag to save extra ingredients for tomorrow's lunch. If there's no good alternative, and you're famished, McKeever has a suggestion to lessen the damage. "Instead of getting your own plate, you might try splitting an order with someone else," she said. That way, you have only a half-portion of a high-fat meal to point out that the monthlong event will be something different. "This is not the old wine festival revisited," she said, "and it is not in place of it; it is a completely different event" clude celebrity chefs offering cooking demonstrations on the stage of the America Gardens Theater.

Each evening beginning Oct 7, a winemakers dinner will be held at the Norway Club. The too! Otm lotorr-if-rrif-inol and wine festival instead of a whole heapin' helping of it. Next time, eat before you go. That way, you can still socialize while getting by on an appetizer-sized serving and salad or even just coffee or tea. The event will take place inside Epcot "When you walk in the gate, you are in the festival," Wytmar said.

There will be booths and food stands set up all around the theme park where guests can sip and sample wines and foods. Appetizer-sized portions will be sold for $1 to $2 each. Much of the action will take place around World dinners will pair a renowned chef with a winemak-er. Some of the celebrity chefs scheduled to participate include Jean-Louis Palladin, Larry Forgione, Christopher Gross, Susan Spicer, Allen Susser, Norman Van Aken and Bradley Ogden. Cost for the dinner is $75, and admission to Epcot is not necessary, but guests will be invited to watch the evening's performance of the DlumiNations light-and-music show at the conclusion of the dinner.

The festival will run from II a.m. to 9 p.m. daily Saturday through Oct 27. For more information, or to make reservations for the guest-chef and winemaker dinner series, call (407) 939-3463. -SCOTT JOSEPH Showcase, with additional countries joining those with permanent pavilions.

Sweden, Thailand, Poland, India, Greece and Chile will be among those who will set up markets alongside Germany, Japan, France and Mexico. There also will be four "specialty areas," including a kids zone where youngsters can decorate their own chefs hat; a healthy cooking area; a gourmet SHRIMP mm BEER WINE STEAK'CHICKBSf LOBSTER nj 1 WV3 5. fcTO Monday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday; 19239 N. U.S.

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