EAT! Vancouver - The Everything Food + Cooking Festival
By Eat Vancouver on February 4, 2008 - 9:56pm
Throughout the three days of the show The Food Network Canada Celebrity Stage features Food Network Canada celebrity chefs Anna Olson, host of Sugar and Rob Feenie, Vancouver's own Iron Chef America. Notable Vancouver chefs, cookbook authors and chefs from around the world will also be entertaining the stage audience.
Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at BC Place Stadium. EAT Vancouver encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and intense culinary competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities.
Watch the excitement of heated competitions at the ‘Iron Chef’ style Citytv’s Master Chef Competition and The Canadian Festival of Barbecue + Chili Competition returns once again with 25 teams from across North America competing.
In the World of Chocolate & Sweets Pavilion exhibitors will be showcasing and selling chocolates, candies, sweets, desserts and confections.
A new feature area is the Wellness Pavilion where exhibitors will be featuring products specifically tailored to enhance our health and well being, food and nutrition for a healthy balanced life style.
Come for lunch and stay for dinner! EAT! Vancouver has teamed with the Union Gospel Mission in a joint initiative: the Bite of Vancouver restaurant pavilion. The chefs of favourite Lower Mainland restaurants will serve up appetizer portions of their signature recipes. For a nominal charge ($1.00 - $4) per item you will be able to savour the flavours of numerous eateries.
Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where you can sip and taste hundreds of different beverages. Hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen, Vancouver’s Wine Diva, the Grapes and Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings of numerous local and regional beers and wines conducted by a variety of industry experts.
Please visit www.eat-vancouver.com for more details
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