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Culinary Inspiration at Wildwood Wine and Food Festival

September 16, 2012 by arfoodie

Points for the most creative (and possibly the most delicious and complex) dish goes to Oceans for their tuna tataki. It was served on a watermelon base with fresh cucumber, sriracha, spicy mayo, and caviar. A bit hard to eat, but the combination of spicy, sweet, salty and savory was a bite to behold.

On Friday night, I got to experience the Wildwood Wine and Food Festival in a completely new way — as a diner.

In the past, if I was at this event, it was as a culinary student, serving up items we had made in class. This year, I got to casually walk from station to station, chatting with the chefs and visiting with friends I saw there. It was kinda fabulous, other than trying to figure out what in the world to wear since I couldn’t wear a chef coat!

Having this extra time to savor each dish (or at least study the gluten-having ones I couldn’t eat) also allowed me to learn more about each chef’s philosophy and ways to use different ingredients. I’m sharing some of these items with you in the slideshow below so we can be inspired together.

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Winner Winner Wildwood Dinner!

September 13, 2012 by arfoodie

Congrats to my friend Sam L., who won the tickets to Wildwood Wine and Food Festival tomorrow night. She and her hubs are awesome folks and college friends of mine, which gave her absolutely no extra credit toward winning. See?

By the way, Sam recently started a blog of her own, juicebox2go.com, about family travel and the perils and high points of traveling with little ones. The blog is particularly well-written and has lots of giveaways and travel tips, so go check it out!

I’ll have lots more contests in the coming months, so stay tuned. A particularly big and awesome one will be announced on Monday.

It involves footwear.

And Southwestern food.

Really.

 

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Giveaway: Two Tickets to this Friday’s Wildwood Wine and Food Festival

September 11, 2012 by arfoodie

Manager Greg Robinson and Executive Chef James Hale from Acadia at the Wildwood Wine and Food Festival in 2010. Acadia will be among the participating restaurants again this year.

Note: The contest is over! Congrats to Sam L. See you at the event on Friday!

This Friday is one of my favorite foodie events of the year, the Wildwood Wine and Food Festival held at the Wildwood Park for the Arts in Little Rock.

I first experienced the event two years ago as a culinary student, as Pulaski Technical College Arkansas Culinary School had a table to present tasty wares created by students. This was one of the first times I was able to directly have a hand in creating good food, then handing it directly to the people who were going to (hopefully) enjoy it. It was extremely gratifying and was probably a defining moment in my passion to make people happy through food.

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