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VinVillageRadio airs "live" from SD Bay Wine & Food Festival Grand Tasting!

Posted November 22nd, 2010 by RobVV

This is the recap and audio-blog of the special 2-hour live remote broadcast of VinVillageRadio from the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival "Grand Tasting" on Saturday, November 20, 2010 featuring co-hosts, Rob Barnett of "VinVillage.com" and Sonia Hunt of "stirring it up! with Sonia Hunt" broadcast on the wsRadio Network, the world-wide leader in internet talk-radio with over 4-million listeners each month! Please listen, learn and enjoy!...

This special 2-hour "live" VinVillageRadio broadcast was sponsored in part by "Pocket Wine Assistant", the free Smartphone App that makes your every wine selection the perfect one, every time! Click HERE to get your FREE download today! (Available for Blackberry and iPhone.)

First segment of this special 2-hour Show: Why is Bridgestone, a major tire manufacturer, a Platinum Sponsor of the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival? - Phil Pacsi

Phil Pacsi (pronounced "PAY-see") has ascended the ranks at Bridgestone over a 28 year career that now has him as VP of North American Consumer Marketing. Phil, also an accomplished home chef, talks about Bridgestone's new involvement in the Festival and shares the similarities he sees between making great tires and creating a great recipe.

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Second segment of this special 2-hour Show: "With a little bit of a split personality in the kitchen... he's half traditionalist, half raspberry pop-rocks on your foie gras." - Chef Paul McCabe

Chef Paul McCabe is Executive Chef at the famed L'Auberge Resort's signature restaurant, "KITCHEN 1540" located in old Del Mar, CA. Named after the fact it’s a "kitchen" and the street address is "1540", we learned that it's much, much more. Creating a fun, innovative pre-Thanksgiving dish for the Bay Festival, Chef McCabe serves-up "Turducken Nuggets"...and once discovered, they didn't last long!

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Third segment of this special 2-hour Show: What does Snake Oil, a Bravo Top Chef, Pomegranates and the SD Bay Festival have in common?! - Eli Kirshtein & Ian Ward

Executive Chef Eli Kirshtein of Eno Restaurant AND a Season-6 contestant on Bravo's popular "Top Chef", is joined by Mixologist, Ian Ward, Co-Founder of Snake Oil Cocktail Company. Both are participating in the 2010 Festival to help promote "POM Wonderful," the global brand that markets pomegranates and pomegranate based products. For those attending the Festival "Grand Tasting", Eli prepared a delectable dish, and Ian a juicy cocktail, both using wonderful pomegranates!

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Fourth segment of this special 2-hour Show: Cooking Light Magazine's Executive Chef joins VinVillageRadio for second year in a row at SD Bay Food & Wine Festival - Chef Billy Strynkowski

Resident “celebrity chef,” Billy Strynkowski of Cooking Light Magazine has gained a multitude of followers with his positive attitude, healthy and delicious recipes, and helpful cooking tips. Cooking Light is once again a Platinum Sponsor of the SD Bay Festival and Chef Billy Strynkowski is once again tantalizing attendees palettes with his tasty, healthy and creative dishes.

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Fifth segment of this special 2-hour Show: Loire Valley Wines include sixty-five appellations that includes every style of wine...and everything in between - Jessica Engel

The Loire Valley lies at the geographical and cultural heart of France. It rises in the south, not far from the Mediterranean coast and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in the northwest of the country. Along the way, it flows through France’s longest and most diverse wine region. The Loire Valley Wine Bureau is a Gold Sponsor of the SD Bay Wine Festival and their U.S. Representative, Jessica Engel, graciously joined us to share her passion for the wines of the Loire.

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Sixth segment of this special 2-hour Show: A Belgian born Master Chef and the top Belgian beer producer "pair-up" to offer great food with great beer at the SD Bay Festival - Chef Daniel Joly

Belgian born Master Chef Daniel Joly graduated from the Culinary Institute of Brussels in 1986. After a few culinary stops along the way, Chef Joly landed at Mirabelle Restaurant in Beaver Creek, CO. Belgian beer producer, Stella Artois, is part of a Belgian brewing tradition dating back to 1366. Named after the Christmas Star, it was originally crafted as a holiday beer and has grown to become the number one Belgian beer in the world. Together, Stella Artois and Chef Joly have "paired up" to provide a fantastic beer and food experience at the SD Bay Festival!

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Seventh segment of this special 2-hour Show: WineMatch.com was simply born out of a need to find the right wine, simply and quickly - Ed Leard

President & Founder, Ed Leard, says WineMatch.com provides a more simplistic and subjective view of wine by using simple language, and not trying to confuse the consumer with a lot of complicated descriptors. WineMatch.com does not employ the generally used 100 point system, instead attempting to keep it simple by using multiple tasters to identify those characteristics most consumers can easily associate with wine.

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Final segment of this special 2-hour Show: World-renowned food critic began her culinary career the moment she was old enough to eat, sleep and ride in an airplane - Sophie Gayot

A sponsor and "celeb" of the SD Bay Festival, Sophie Gayot ("guy-OH") is living a life that revolves around food and the business of restaurants. Sophie is the daughter of André Gayot, co-founder of GaultMillau, the French restaurant guide that took on the classic, but stuffy Michelin Guide with a more contemporary approach. Many experienced Sophie's eager spirit and frank nature as a judge on “Hell's Kitchen, Season 4", where she was named "one of America's finest food critics" by star-chef Gordon Ramsay. This was an interview we decided, has to be continued...

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