Title: Icewine Festival
Location: Okanagan, B.C., Canada
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Description: The Annual Okanagan Icewine Festival in January at Sun Peaks Resort is the most unique of all the wine festivals. Spectacular wines and an award winning alpine resort create an unbelievable weekend of education and recreation. From wine masters dinners, to educational seminars and a unique progressive tasting, this is a memorable weekend in the making.

Sun Peaks Resort is renowned for its dedication to quality and amazing winter recreation. These outdoor adventures in the crisp mountain air, combined with the acclaimed wines and world famous Icewines of the Okanagan, make this a Canadian winter escape to be remembered.
Start Date: 2009-01-13
End Date: 2009-01-18

Title: San Diego Restaurant Week
Location: San Diego, Califronia
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Description: Extraordinary 3 course menus from San Diego’s best restaurants
Experience cuisine that delights your palate and defines the art of dining in San Diego. Choose from over 150 of the city’s best restaurants and enjoy a three-course dinner for $20, $30 or $40 per person, depending on the restaurant. Now is your chance to discover new restaurants and enjoy all your favorites at a discounted price!
Start Date: 2009-01-11
End Date: 2009-01-16

Title: LAFAYETTE QUAKER OATMEAL FESTIVAL
Location: Lafayette Oatmeal Festival
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Description: On Saturday, January 10, 2009, Lafayette will host its annual Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival. This community celebration is sponsored by the Quaker Oats Company and organized by Lafayette Community Events.

Twelve years ago, rolled oats put Lafayette on the national map. This was not because Lafayette was known as a major center for oatmeal production, but because downtown businesses, when faced with the newly constructed Highway 287 bypass, looked for a unique annual promotion of Old Town Lafayette that would bring visitors to the heart of town and raise awareness of downtown businesses during the slowest month of the year and established the Lafayette Oatmeal Festival. According to the festival’s major sponsor, Quaker Oats Company, the annual Lafayette Oatmeal Festival is the only one of its kind in the country. The festival has grown from 400 participants the first year to more than 3,500 participants in 2008.
Start Time: 7:30
Date: 2009-01-10

If you’re still looking for the end of the year write-off…. The folks at Gourmet Magazine want to remind everyone there is still time to bid on your favorite custom-designed lunchbox by Mario Batali, Beastie Boys, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Chang, Tom Colicchio, Salman Rushdie, Cameron Diaz, the cast of “Gossip Girl,” Rachael Ray, Eva Mendes, Mike Myers, Ellen Page, Michael Stipe, Liv Tyler, Diane Von Furstenberg and many others — plus, Gourmet’s Ruth Reichl and Sara Moulton.

The Lunchbox Auction, which benefits the hunger relief organizations Food Bank For New York City and The Lunchbox Fund of South Africa. The online auction features one-of-a-kind lunchboxes designed by celebrities from film, television, fashion, art, music, and the culinary world.

Bidding ends December 18 at noon EST.

click here to bid or see all the lunchboxes

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Screamingfresh.com is all about fresh food, and it appears the restaurant industry is taking notice of the our passion for produce as well…

Mintel Menu, a company that tracks food trends, recently predicted that restaurant menus in 2009 will include:

1. More fresh food on the menu
2. More cocktails
3. Comfort food re-invented
4. Mediterranean food surges
5. More explanations of the benefits of their foods

With our focus on fresh foods, we are thrilled Mintel says there has been a 22% increase since 2006 in restaurant menus that label foods as fresh and to expect even more emphasis on fresh foods and artisan ingredients in the year ahead.

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Screamingfresh.com is all about fresh food, and it appears the restaurant industry is taking notice of the our passion for produce as well…

Mintel Menu, a company that tracks food trends, recently predicted that restaurant menus in 2009 will include:

1.More fresh food on the menu
2.More cocktails
3.Comfort food re-invented
4.Mediterranean food surges
5.More explanations of the benefits of their foods

With our focus on fresh foods, we are thrilled Mintel says there has been a 22% increase since 2006 in restaurant menus that label foods as fresh and to expect even more emphasis on fresh foods and artisan ingredients in the year ahead.

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