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Kristine Sherred: Staycation anyone? Taste Washington, pandemic edition, opens to restaurants statewide
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 2/14/2021 Kristine Sherred, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Feb. 14 The pandemic has canceled a multitude of events, but rather than wait around for normal life to resume, one Washington state festival has overhauled its approach to match the times.
Enter: Taste Washington To Go.
Typically, the annual food and wine festival features high-profile chefs from the upper echelons of the culinary world in Seattle and across the country. They descend upon CenturyLink Field to prepare thousands of small bites of intricate dishes, as guests who paid around $100 to enter nibble their way through the day, stopping for sips of red, white and bubbly from hundreds of Washington state wineries. It s also educational, with seminars and panel discussions as well as wine dinners at celebrated restaurants.