{"id":4038,"date":"2011-05-02T08:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2011-05-02T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:56:33","slug":"2011-food-network-new-york-city-wine-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/2011-food-network-new-york-city-wine-food-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Food Network New York City Wine &#038; Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss the 2011 Food Network New York City Wine &amp; Food Festival scheduled for September 29 through October 2, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>This year the Wine &amp; Festival will be held a week earlier than in previous years and will offer new events on the schedule. New events will include Rock and Bowl with Anne Burrell, Thrillist\u2019s BBQ &amp; The Blues hosted by Curtis Stone, FRIED hosted by Tyler Florence and Elizabeth Karmel, Winemaker Dinners at Ai Flori, Catch, Locanda Verde and Red Rooster, Brooklyn\u2019s Best Bites-Artesian Tasting of Brooklyn\u2019s Finest, in partnership with Edible Brooklyn, and Chinese Wedding Banquet hosted by Ching-He Huang, in collaboration with Lucky Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Other events will continue including the Blue Moon Burger Bash, San Pellegrino\u2019s Meatball Madness, Godiva Chocolatier presents Sweet, Tacos &amp; Tequila and many more experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Brian Schrager, director and founder of the Wine &amp; Food Festival, writes in a recent news release, \u201cI&#8217;m very excited about the 2011 program of events,&#8221; says Schrager. \u00a0&#8220;Once again, I feel like we are able to offer attendees a truly great set of unique wine, spirits and culinary experiences at a variety of price points so that everyone has an opportunity to be a part of the Festival and help us raise funds to fight hunger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The net proceeds will go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbanknyc.org\/\">Food Bank For New York City<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strength.org\/\">Share Our Strength<\/a>. Last year the festival raised more than $1.2 million to benefit the hungry.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for this annual event will go on sale June 20. Set your calendar for June 20 and purchase your tickets. Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycwineandfoodfestival.com\/splash\/index.html\">Food Network New York City Wine &amp; Food Festival website<\/a> for more forthcoming information.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers! Kathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"2011 Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=4038\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss the 2011 Food Network New York City Wine &#038; Food Festival scheduled for September 29 through October 2, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,1],"tags":[1560,184,34,1054,2097,2096,2095,1318,2098,98],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-and-food","category-wineryevents","tag-culinary","tag-festival","tag-food","tag-food-bank","tag-food-bank-for-new-york-city","tag-food-network","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-share-our-strength","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}