While cleaning my room yesterday I found my festival guide from 2006 and was SHOCKED at how many items i missed at the Food Booths! I am definitely going to strive to try more this time around
I also found my 2006 Party for the Senses program (signed by Cat Cora
) and can fully understand the frustrations with the first 2008 program. Based on what I've seen it was severely lacking in organization. I can understand that menu items MAY be hard to obtain in advance, however, it would not have taken much effort to sort the chefs and wineries by colour. I read somewhere that there is a new event coordinator this year and I bet she got an earful of feedback. Here's hoping that the program is sorted out by the party of the 25th
Finding these made me sooooo pumped for my trip.
So far, here are the items that i want to try from the Food Booths
CANADA
- Cheese Soup
- Maple Custard
- Vidal Ice Wine
HOPS & BARLEY
- Crab Cake
- Lobster Roll
- Octoberfest
SAN FRANCISCO
- Seared Beef Medallion with Cheese Polenta
- Rosenblum Cellars, Kathy's Cuvee Viognier
LOUISIANA
- Praline Bread Pudding with Bourbon Caramel Sauce
- Abita Purple Haze Beer
ARGENTINA
- Grilled Beef with Chimichurri Sauce
CHILE
- Spicy Beef Empanada
- Dulce de Leche
- Montes Limited Selection Sauvignon Blance
MEXICO
- Quesadilla con Chorizo (spicy sausage and cheese tortilla)
- Capirotada
CHAMPAGNE
- Moet & Chandon Nectar Imperial
FRANCE
- Escargot Persillade en Brioche (snails with garlic butter in brioche)
- Quiche au Fromage de Chevre et poireaux (goat cheese and leek quiche)
- Creme Brulee Chocolat au Lait (milk chocolate creme brulee)
- Sparkling Pomegranate Kir
GERMANY
- Apple Strudel
- SA Prum Blue Slate Riesling Kabinett
- SA Prum Essence Riesling
- SA Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese
- Schloss Reinhartshausen Old Vines Riesling
GREECE
- Greek Salad
- Spanakopita (savory spinach and cheese pastry)
- Melomakarona (honey spice cookie with walnuts)
IRELAND
- Potato Leek Soup with a Dubliner Cheese Crisp
- Boxty with bacon chips and Kerrygold garlic and fresh herb butter
- Frozen Irish Coffee
ITALY
- Baked Ziti
- Sausage Pizza
- Cream Puff with Mascarpone and Gianduja Chocolate
- Tantinel Prosecco
- Virgin Primavera
SPAIN
- Chilled Tomato and Garlic Soup
- Seared Tuna Loin with Roasted Red Peppers, spicy pepper coulis and garlic-herb ciabatta
- Churro with Chocolate Sauce
AUSTRIA
- Beef Goulash with a bacon dumpling
POLAND
- Kielbasa with Potato Pierogies with caramelized onions and sour cream
TURKEY
- Manti with Yogurt Sauce
PUERTO RICO
- Mofungo
MOROCCO
- Brewat Spicy Chicken Pastry
SOUTH AFRICA
- Durban Spiced Chicken on a Skewer with coconut milk-infused root vegetables
- Bobotie with Mango Chutney
- Spice Cake with a chocolate sauce
- Fairview Goats du Roam White
INDIA
- Mango Mousse
JAPAN
- California Sushi Roll
- Spicy Tuna Roll
- Seaweed Salad with Shrimp and Orange
- Hana Raspberry Sake
- Kirin Ichiban Draft Beer
CHINA
- Chicken Sha Cha
- Pork Pot Stickers
NEW ZEALAND
- Bay Scallops with baby greens and cranberry vinaigrette
- Lamb Slider in a brioche roll
- Villa Maria Private Bin Riesling
AUSTRALIA
- Pepperberry Prawns on the barbie with sweet potato hash
- Grilled Lamb Chop with caramelized onion jam and pea shoots
- Yellowglen Pink
THE MOUSE CATCH
- Asiago Pressato, Italy
- Manchego, Spain
- Dorothea, Holland
- Martini & Rossi Prosecco
- Marques de Caceras Rioja Crianza
- Heineken Beer
WOW this list is LONG LOL....69 items in 10 days....quite the challenge LOL
It was a lot of food but well worth it! 
