Exploring cuisine is a lifelong affair as there’s always more to discover and taste. While there’s endless options for your next meal, here are a few dishes to add to your culinary bucket list.
See where you can find a bacon flight, 100 layer donut and more in our TravelPulse story!
From iconic attractions to photos with fairytale princesses, Walt Disney World offers quite the range of entertainment and experiences. The average Disney vacation is filled with family time, thrilling roller coasters and the occasional Mickey Mouse ice cream bar. However, there’s a side to the mouse that goes beyond character dining and endless queue lines. It’s a magical world filled with hidden gems for adults. If you’re looking for a mature theme park experience that’s still sprinkled with pixie dust, be sure to add one of these experiences to your Orlando agenda.
Heart of Florida United Way’s 25th annual Chef’s Gala, which takes place on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, will benefit local programs that provide food, shelter and other services to thousands of Central Floridians in need. The event features cuisine from more than 20 of Central Florida’s top chefs, along with paired wines, live music and a silent auction.
The participating restaurants include:
And for desserts:
Tickets are available here: http://www.hfuw.org/chefs-gala/
Widely recognized as one of America’s favorite epicurean celebrations, the 16th annual Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) returns February 22 – 26, 2017. Its signature event that started it all in 2002, the Goya Foods’ Grand Tasting Village featuring MasterCard Grand Tasting Tents & KitchenAid Culinary Demonstrations, is back Saturday, February 25 and Sunday, February 26.
In addition to the festival’s featured line-up of Culinary Captains, who together have rounded up more than 55 restaurants each day as guests sip on samplings from 100 wine and spirits suppliers from the Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits portfolio, an array of new and returning favorite Food Network and Cooking Channel talent and more culinary personalities will take to the KitchenAid Culinary Demonstration stages each day, including:
Saturday, February 25
Valerie Bertinelli
Ayesha Curry
Giada De Laurentiis
Bobby Flay
Snoop Dogg & Guy Fieri
Amanda Freitag & Scott Conant
Emeril Lagasse
Debi Mazar & Gabriele Corcos
Masaharu Morimoto
Marc Murphy
Michael Symon
Ming Tsai
Geoffrey Zakarian
Sunday, February 26
José Andrés
Anne Burrell
Giada De Laurentiis
Duff Goldman
Alex Guarnaschelli
Carla Hall
Robert Irvine
Eddie Jackson
Roger Mooking
Tia Mowry
Marcus Samuelsson
Aarón Sánchez
Ndamukong Suh
Andrew Zimmerman
Tickets for all events at the 2017 festival are available online at sobewff.org or by calling 877.762.3933. See you in Miami!
Photo Courtesy of Walt Disney World Resort
It’s 90 degrees, you’re drenched in sweat and you’ve been waiting in line for over an hour to see a princess. The rising summer temperatures and skyrocketing humidity that rolls into Orlando come summer can sometimes make for a less than magical day at the theme parks. From shorter lines to special events, there’s an upside to visiting Walt Disney World Resort in the middle of winter.
See why Disney is so much better in the winter on TravelPulse!
Photo courtesy of Walt Disney World Resort
We live in a pizza obsessed country, from Superbowl Sunday to Thanksgiving Eve, it’s as much a staple in American culture as the hamburger. And like most adapted dishes, we’ve found a way to reduce the art of pizza making down to a frozen science. So it’s always refreshing to find an authentic and tasty pie in town, which is exactly what we found at MidiCi. This LA founded Neapolitan pizza company has made its way to the Sunshine State. Their traditional Neapolitan cuisine features a true taste of Naples with its pizza ovens direct from Italy, as is the flour. Reminiscent of a pie you’d find on the other side of the world, this new pizza place is serving up goodness with starters like paper-thin prosciutto and endings like Nutella calzones.
MidiCi serves traditional Neapolitan cuisine with natural, fresh, non-GMO ingredients. You can select from traditional and signature menu options or create personalized pizzas in an open-kitchen fashion. Honoring the tradition, passion and art of Neapolitan pizza, making the way it was invented more than 300 years ago, MidiCi uses traditional wood-fired ovens, custom hand built in Naples with an internal temperature of 850 degrees to bake pizzas to perfection.
Completely, worth the drive from Downtown Orlando, here’s what we’d recommend ordering when you venture out to Kissimmee!
Just make sure you save room for the Drowning Gelato. This authentic affogato with vanilla gelato (by Italian Master Gelatiers Leo Leo Gelato) is drowning in espresso.
Ciao!
Tickets are on sale for the 4th annual Field to Feast Dinner March 25 at Long & Scott Farms in Zellwood, Fla., with Disney’s top chefs headlining. Presented by Edible Orlando magazine featuring Walt Disney World Resort chefs, all proceeds benefit the Kids Cafe Program of Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, an after-school meal service program that provides food to local children in need.
Celebrating locally sourced cuisine in an open-air setting with a casual dine around, this year’s dishes will be paired with wines, beers and cocktails selected by Master Sommelier George Miliotes of Wine Bar George. Live music, farm tours, a raffle and more are part of the event from 5-8 p.m.
Tickets are $175 at edibleorlando.com. Buy your tickets soon, the event sold out the last three years! See you on the farm.
