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* * * Photos by David Samayoa * * * I suppose you can file this one under “better late than never.” Here is a photo post of the Midnight Amore pasta orgy that took place at Scarpetta from 11 pm to 1 am on Saturday night of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  [...]

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) * * * Photo by Chuck Ferrin. * * * (Continued from Part 1) Americans, and a great deal of the people on Planet Earth, are interested in wine.  The total estimated retail wine sales for 2010 are $117 billion dollars.   Most of this money isn’t going [...]

by Chuck Ferrin (The Fifth Drink, Twitter: @telephonedrinks) * * *Photo: Gary Vaynerchuk/ Courtesy of South Beach Wine and Food Festival* * * I got the chance to see the-man-the-myth wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk at the 2010 South Beach Wine and Food Festival.  He hosted a seminar called “Pulse of the Wine World,” and I [...]

*by Chuck Ferrin* **photo courtesy of WInes From Spain*** The Miami area is not always the easiest place to live.  Han Solo would have trouble with our traffic, and there’s no question that he would shoot Greedo first for a parking space.  Speaking of that fan-boy favorite scene, I can’t imagine a city more like [...]

“Don’t let some chef sit up here and tell you how to eat.  I can teach you how to cook–not how to eat.” – Tom Colicchio This was my first year attending the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, which experienced a name reversal this year.  Whew.  For a moment, I thought I had been [...]

* * *Sara Bitzer and Andrea Hollsey are so beyond crying at this point. * * * I spent Thursday afternoon among the FIU  School of Hospitality students who were helping prep for the Bubble Q event at the South Beach Wine & Food  Festival.  The students were like a well-oiled machine, working in a [...]