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Walt Disney World guests can sip, taste and enjoy live entertainment all day long as the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival celebrates 14 years of first-rate wine and cuisine
Sept. 25-Nov. 8.
The six-week outdoor festival at Disney’s Epcot theme park serves up authentic cuisine, wine, entertainment and cultures of more than 25 international regions. Exotic marketplaces from Rio de Janiero to Shanghai offer exciting taste treats. The festival is the largest food and wine event of its kind in the world, beginning at the Festival Welcome Center in the Wonders of Life pavilion and fanning around the promenade encircling World Showcase Lagoon.
Here are a few facts about the 14th annual event:
More than 300 national and international wines
45 fabulous days long
More than 76 kinds of international foods, each appetizer-sized portion priced $2-$7
More than 160 of America’s most celebrated chefs and Walt Disney World chefs
405 wine and beer seminars
More than 1,200 fireworks rockets exploding each night over World Showcase Lagoon in “IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth” grand finale to the festival
135 Eat to the Beat! concerts performed
33,000 bottles of wine and champagne
1.2 million hors d’oeuvre plates
2.1 million Vanity Fair napkins
750,000 beer cups
690,000 sumptuous samplings
600,000 forks
338,000 wine glasses
100,000 miniature desserts including crème brûlée, traditional apple strudel, Grand Marnier parfait with Orange Coulis and warm chocolate lava cake with Bailey’s ganache
3,000 gallons of soup, including cheddar cheese soup (Montreal marketplace), chicken and coconut soup with mushrooms, lemongrass and ginger (Bangkok, Thailand marketplace) and Mealie soup with crabmeat and chili oil (Capetown, South Africa marketplace)
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