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Wooping it Up at the Wine Festival
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, START YOUR CORKSCREWS ...
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival started off with a bang yesterday and revs up to full speed with a vat full of events today.
We have our list of favourite bottles we'll be tasting (see Wine Festival Choices below), and so do the other members of the wine press in Vancouver. See what the Media Dog has found below.
(More Dine and Dash items later today.)
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WINE FESTIVAL CHOICE
 TRY THIS ONE
Everyday throughout the month of March, the Wine Diva will choose a wine that you shouldn't pass by without tasting when you visit the upcoming Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival.
Today's pick:
Wooping it up at the Wine Festival.
Filed in DRINK/Best of the Wine Fest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 IN THE EASTER BASKET
Your Local Farmers Market monthly newsletter E-bits provides us with a list of all the labelling terms found on egg cartons these days and translate what they really mean. Plus, a carton of eggs find out that life isn't all it's cracked up to be when a mysterious girl takes them out of the fridge.
Filed in DAILY NEWS/Easter Specials
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 TODAY'S PRESS RELEASES
Where Will You Dine This Thursday, March 29th?
Wedgewood Hotel Sous Chef Wins National Cooking Competition.
Blueberry Bushes Doomed by TransLink to be Put up for Sale at Formosa Farms
Hart House Restaurant in Burnaby Extends Table d"Hote menu to April 30.
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 FETCHED BY THE MEDIA DOG
(From today's NEWSSTAND)
THE LOCAL INK - Try What the Experts will be Drinking.
The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival has begun and these local wine writers chime in with their personal lists on what to search out in the tasting rooms:
Anthony Gismondi for the Vancouver Sun
Tim Pawsey for the Vancouver Courier
Jurgen Gothe for the Georgia Straight
Daenna van Mulligen for CityFood Online
Find all of the above filed in MEDIA/On the Newsstands this Week
THE OUTSIDE WORLD
Pizza boxes sport photos of deadbeat Dads.
No more foie gras pizza. Wolfgang Puck vows to use only humanely raised animal products in his kitchen.
The Ethnic Paris Cookbook features a guide to top ethnic restaurants, markets and shops in Paris.
Now it seems as though a dairy in New York state has come up with wine-flavored ice cream in three flavors - Ala Port Wine, Peachy White Zinfandel and Red Raspberry Chardonnay. These treats aren't for children though, each pint contains the equivalent of one glass of wine.
Video: Folgers offers this nightmare apocolyptic vision -- imagine an after-the-bomb scenerio where half the population have been turned into radioactive, mutant Morning People. Eeeeeeck!
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 WHO'S GOT IT - OUR BUZZ METER For MARCH 27, 2007
(The most requested information on the site as measured by Google keyword counter)
PEOPLE:
1) George Siu (Restaurant Owner)
2) Tom Doughty (Restaurant Owner)
3) Tim Wispinski (Wine Agent)
4) Charles McDiarmid (Inn Keeper, Tofino)
5) Blake Hanacek (Cafe Owner)
PLACES:
1) Italian Kitchen (Restaurant), Vancouver
2) So.Cial at Le Magazine (Restaurant/charcuterie), Victoria
3) Prima Taste (Restaurant), Vancouver
4) Tojo's (Restaurant), Vancouver
5) Fetch, (Hot Dog Cart), Vancouver
THINGS:
1) used shopping carts
2) Lombok Lemonade
3) private dining rooms in Kelowna
4) beer tasting classes in Vancouver
5) BC Wine and Oyster Festival
MOST INEXPLICABLE CONNECTION:
Hello Kitty wastebaskets
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES LOOKING IN: 87 NEWEST FLAG: Kuwait
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TODAY'S BIG DEAL
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