What a glorious weekend for this stuff-your-face, cooking-demo, entertainment event. We live right next door to the the festival which causes some inconvenience on our part...especially the Friday night loud music, but enough about me.
Our passes entitled us to 10 food tickets each (you can buy more to extend your gluttony). The food samples are "charged" at 1, 2 and 3 tickets, so in order to stay within budget, you have to select carefully. The strategy is to get good "free" samples first. Luckily, a bite of smoked chicken was near the entrance, a first taste for me.
Set-up and before the masses arrived -- taken from our balcony.
Throngs of very hungry people arrived on Saturday. There was so much smoke from grills that you would have thought the place was on fire.
My first "paid" sample. It was a generous portion of grits with bacon, cheese and a poached egg from Rosebud restaurant.
Rosebud Restaurant, a chef-owned place.
Our next taste from Bocado.
Chef and owner, Todd Ginsberg of Bocado. The chef used leg of lamb, cooked and then ground for the chili. No wonder it was good.
How about a Puffy Taco? I chose chicken and ate it before I took a picture. Ooooppps.
Way, way too salty. Unfortunately, chefs often oversalt.
Aetna sponsored a healthy cooking contest. I didn't taste any of the food but I hope they didn't overdo the salt.
PS: Whole Foods offers less sodium, no sugar added prepared soups and other items in their stores. If you don't see them, I was told to ask. We tasted two flavors; both were good.
it's been a while since i've been to Atlanta. On a sunny day like this.
Posted by: convert avi episode to dvd | 07/05/2012 at 06:36 AM
Great post. To be honest I envy you a little:
it's been a while since i've been to Atlanta. On a sunny day like this.
Pictures are nice, thank you for sharing Susan!
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