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Like a snowball rolling down the side of a snow-covered hill, the South Beach Seafood Festival has been growing year after year. Once again, it’s October, so it’s time to get this party started quickly.
I remember back in the day when the VIP Chef Showdown was a little intimate thing during which lots of privileged local people – I mean privileged because they were able to eat delicious creative seafood dishes prepared by local chefs – were able to graze amidst a crowd of familiar mostly local folks and enjoy the peace and quiet of a small local festival. This has changed. It keeps blowing up.
This is not to say that it isn’t as good as it used to be because that would be a lie. It’s the crowd that has grown. Local chefs are still serving up quite the group of delicacies from around South Florida Waters. This year’s Seafood Chef Battles will include Taco, Crab, Sushi, Surf N’ Turf, Salmon, Shrimp, Ceviche, Seafood Pasta, Tuna and Lobster. Hungry yet?
For four days from October 22-25, seafood and drink, along with music, demos, beach games and more take center stage in various Miami Beach locations, with Friday and Saturday at Lummus Park on Ocean Drive. If you’ve never attended the South Beach Seafood Festival, you just can’t imagine.
This is a big thing, with 50 corporate, associate, media, retail and community sponsors – whatever that entails, 21 hosting sponsors – whatever that entails, five presenting sponsors, four title sponsors, Tequila Herradura, the big Entitlement Sponsor and me, the sponsor of this really long sentence and positive article intending to praise it all. The beneficiary of all this is Community Initiatives Foundation (CIF), a nonprofit that enables work on projects that help develop outreach, education, youth empowerment, mentoring, and the “EAT SMART” Initiative, which targets deficiencies in youth health and nutrition.
With the explosion of interest in food from the masses, which, despite Julia Child and Graham Kerr, probably began with Emeril Lagasse and the Food Network, not a day goes by during which every Instagram feed fails to explode with chefs, recipes, and restaurant recommendations, however excellent or dubious they may be. I mean, we all know that the social media cesspool that we are all addicted to generates an algorithm which sends each of us exactly what we want, what we like, and what we click on – not necessarily in that order. Today there is an incessant stream of food related content where anyone can be an influencer, and everybody a food endorser. Getting honest criticism is elusive.
None of this tarnishes the legitimacy of the South Beach Seafood Festival nor the event which I have always enjoyed, the VIP Chefs Showdown. This year you can once again expect to eat too much and hope that Baptist Hospital may once again be on site, as all of us inside will indulge in way too much food and beverage. Of course, on the other hand, all of this indulgence does wonders for our mental health.
Once again, October will bring another wonderful South Beach Seafood Festival and plenty of battles about which our only arguments will be of the friendly variety. What a relief!
For more detailed info, look here https://sobeseafoodfest.com/.
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