History of Epcot's Food and Wine Festival
by Sam. 10.20.21 I was lucky enough to have gotten married in October and even luckier we chose WDW as our honeymoon. While it wasn't my first run-in with the Food and Wine Festival, the timing pretty much cemented F&WF as a staple of our Disney trips from now on and well into the future. Obviously drinking around the world at Epcot is nothing new. Many a blog post hosts a bevy of strategies in order to hit as many countries as possible. But Food and Wine takes that and ups the ante. It's one thing to get a yard in England or a schnitzel in Germany. Now you have all those typical options but with a booth (or booths) on every turn, looks like you're gonna need a bigger tummy (and a sportier liver). On our last trip, I got to thinking about when F&WF started. Surprisingly I learned it was in 1996 - and the brainchild of former WDW president George Kalogridis. And he might know a thing or two about Disney World btw. His first gig was at MK, where he bussed tab