Newsflash
| Welcome to the Lee County Chat version 2.0 Beta! We are very excited to bring you a new forum software, blogging capabilities and many more features. Please feel free to look around. I have updated the rules, they are available at the top of the forum. I will be posting them in several other places. Thank you for your participation. |
You are here:
| International Olive Oil Festival |
|
|
|
| Written by radioastro | |
| Tuesday, 09 October 2007 | |
|
Fort Lauderdale, FL. The International Olive Oil Festival, March 8-9, 2008 has selected Fort Lauderdale as its host city. The event will feature over 250 different brands of olive oil from Italy, Greece, France, Israel, Chile, Argentina, Morocco, Spain, Jordan, Turkey, and the United States. Complimentary products such as tomatoes, pesto, pasta, wine, truffles, vinegars, olives, tapas, cosmetics, breads, and organic food products. In addition to food sampling, the event will feature live music, dancing, cooking demonstrations, an olive oil tasting competition, a recipe contest. Additionally International sporting demonstrations such as Italian olive pit spitting, bocce ball, Turkish olive oil wrestling, Argentine Tango Performers and much more. The City of Fort Lauderdale was selected over five other possible venues due to its weather, strategic international business location, and supportive response from the city and local sponsors. The War Memorial Auditorium was chosen because it offers 20,000. square feet of newly renovated indoor exhibitor space, unlimited outdoor exhibitor space and an elevated stage for live performances. For more information on becoming a sponsor or exhibitor, please visit: www.OliveOilFest.com or contact Jay Shapiro at 561-376-0033 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
Copyright © 2008 Lee County News and Chat.