INTRODUCTION
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival, presented by Food & Wine magazine, celebrated it's fifth anniversary of South Florida’s premier culinary extravaganza.
Some of the planet’s greatest chefs, winemakers, spirits producers, culinary personalities and others entertain in high style - as well as answer questions
and impart their secrets. The festival organizers contacted Just Born, the makers of PEEPS, and asked them to participate on the festival. I was in turn contacted by Just Born
and asked to create a sculpture for the event. We participated in the two events listed below.
"SOBE Food & Wine Festival Grand Tasting Village". The hottest ticket in town for one of the coolest spots on South Beach: the Grand Tasting Village. A myriad of activities competes for attention. Chefs and culinary personalities share recipes and techniques, while at every turn the tastes of the good life flow freely. There are cooking demos and samplings of delicious offerings from your favorite restaurants and wine and spirits producers. "Sweet Deco-dence celebrating 5 Sweet Years Of The South Beach Wine & Food Festival". Mix and mingle with your favorite celebrity chefs and culinary personalities at the greatest dessert party of all times. Celebrating five sweet years as the nation's largest and most lavish wine and food event. It is a heavenly extravaganza. It all came to a calorie crescendo when the huge and fittingly glamorous birthday cake's candles were blown out by the Festival's assembled cast of celebrity chefs, culinary personalities, wine-makers and oenophiles. | |
SOBE Food & Wine Festival Grand Tasting Village Location: On the beach at 13th and Ocean Date: Saturday, February 25, 2006 | |
The Marshmallow PEEPS booth consisted of two chocolate fountains: one white-chocolate and one milk-chocolate. It was a windy day at the beach, so we had to prodect the fountains from wind gusts. PEEPS were skewered and then dipped into the chocolate ... YUM! I created a PEEPS palm treet for the event. The 7-foot tall tree had green holographic leaves with green rope lighting and white lighting up the trunk. I glued pink PEEPS to the leaves and lined the trunk with blue PEEPS. It was a crowd pleaser!
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Part of the PEEPS crew (I'm second from right)
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Skewered PEEPS ready to be dipped in chocolate.
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The milk chocolate fountain.
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A visitor coats her PEEP in chocolate.
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Fans crowd around the booth, eager to dip and taste.
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PEEPS awaiting to be skewered.
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SOBE Food & Wine Festival Sweet Deco-dence Party Location: Loews Hotel Date: Saturday, February 25, 2006 | |
This decedent night-time party was an extravaganza of sweets.
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Here I am posing in front of my creation.
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Milena Sasic Deluca (Public Relations, Just Born)
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Aldo offers a guest a sample!
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Party guests enjoy the beautiful night.
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Hey!
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Aldo, even after serving up PEEPS the entire day, had never tasted one!
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Picturesque views of the party and hotel courtyard.
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Other vendors' booths.
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An over-the-top cake celebrates the festival's fifth anniversary.
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