For Immediate Release

August 4, 2009

Slice & Dice; Sip & Swirl; Bite & Swallow; Taste & Buy

A glossary of culinary activities to be experienced at the second annual EAT! Fraser Valley Food + Cooking Festival at Tradex Exhibition Centre in Abbotsford on September 11, 12 & 13.

Slice & Dice!
Watch Food Network’s super star David Rocco host of David Rocco’s La Dolce Vita and Ventura and Chef Ned Bell host of Cook Like A Chef as they slice and dice and recreate their signature recipes right in front of your eyes. This is David’s first live appearance on the West Coast!

Sip & Swirl!
A unique tasting experience awaits you at EAT! Fraser Valley’s Wine, Beer & Spirits Tasting Pavilion where numerous Fraser Valley and region wineries and breweries will be sampling their unique products. Here you will find wines from farm gate vineyards,fruit & berry wines, organic alcoholized fruit beverages and of course a wide range of craft beers. An added feature is the Grapes and Hops Stage where BC’s own Wine Diva, Daenna Van Mulligen and Colin Jack & Rick Mohabir from Just Here for the Beer will be conducting presentations and seminars on everything from wine and food pairing to beer and chocolate appreciation.

Bite & Swallow!
Eat your way through the cuisines of numerous restaurants all in one day at the Bite of the Valley Restaurant Pavilion where you can savour appy-size portions of the signature dishes of many of the Fraser Valley’s finest restaurants. Also, you may sit and enjoy sampling a variety of delightful artisan cheeses in the Dairy Farmers of Canada sponsored Cheese Seminars.

Taste & Buy!
Browse through over one hundred exhibits on the main Festival Floor where you will be able to sample a variety of food and beverage products, many of them hard to find items. You will have an opportunity to discuss the merits of the various products direct with the grower, producer or distributor and have a chance to purchase right there on the show floor at special show pricing.

EAT! Fraser Valley will entertain you, help fill your pantry, satisfy your thirst and hunger and ignite your yearning for something new, different, healthy, and nourishing.

Let your inner chef come alive at EAT! Fraser Valley!

EAT! Fraser Valley Food + Cooking Festival
Tradex Exhibition Centre, Abbotsford, BC
September 11, 12 & 13
www.eat-fraservalley.com

For more information: info@eat-fraservalley.com