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So, the plan is that we’re going to liveblog the Tampa Bay Wine & Food Festival starting tomorrow at the Don CeSar Resort on St. Pete Beach. The weekend of food and wine starts tonight with a Party for the Senses, but we’ve never been much for the musical stylings of Sergio Mendes, so we’re going to take a pass. Ain’t got nuthin’ but love fo ya Serge, but it’s a long drive over the Gandy from Valrico. Know what I’m saying?
That’s the plan, anyway. With the caveat that there’s a ton of food and wine at the food and wine festival. [Who’d have thunk?] And as professional as we like to think we are, all bets are off if we get our lips around a delicious rum or a Cabernet so good that it makes us just a bit weepy. Those kinds of Hallmark moments, welll, you really can’t plan on. Before you know it, you’re in a Jockey with white piping pulling a Ron Burgundy cannonball in the kiddie pool.
By we, I mean me, of course, [I do not, repeat, do NOT respond to the nickname Capt. STEWbing] as well as Tampa Tribune Flavor columnists Jaden Hair of SteamyKitchen.com and Greg and Michelle Baker, the Culinary Sherpas.
Like an Olympic relay team on steroids, we’re going to take turns passing the blog baton baton the next few days to bring you the best that the event has to offer. Or at least the bright shiny objects that obscure our vision and make us turn our collective head like a dog that just heard something weird.
How weird? Consider this scene, which I shot during last year’s grand tasting:
But we digress.
The plan calls for a little text, a lot of photos and some video for good measure.
You have officially been warned. Stay tuned for further updates.
To buy tickets to the various events, parties and seminars, click here. A map of the designated parking area a little bit north of the Don CeSar is here:
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