{"id":5697,"date":"2009-08-06T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2013-04-12T17:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:05:29","slug":"adventures-in-fantasyland-atlantic-citys-food-wine-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/5697\/adventures-in-fantasyland-atlantic-citys-food-wine-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Fantasyland: Atlantic City&#8217;s Food &#038; Wine Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Atlantic City drew people to the Jersey Shore for reasons other than gambling, beaches, and bikini-clad cougars. They came for the food. (Or, in the case of a line of blushing ladies, photos with Tom Colicchio.)<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Harrah\u2019s Entertainment and benefiting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity, Atlantic City\u2019s first annual food and wine festival drizzled barbeque and amuse-bouche bliss over a resort community more known for its seedy party town vibe than its local culinary talent. As far as weekend destinations go, after this event, it is clear AC has become a total slow-cooked success.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re next looking out over the ocean, a pi\u00f1a colada in hand and a boardwalk of casinos and shops behind you, just wait for the thought, &#8220;Who needs Vegas?&#8221; to slide forward.<\/p>\n<p>Here are photographic bites of the town along with a few local discoveries we made during the festival.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser\/swfobject.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar so = new SWFObject(\"http:\/\/www.db798.com\/pictobrowser.swf\", \"PictoBrowser\", \"550\", \"450\", \"8\", \"#FFFFFF\"); so.addVariable(\"source\", \"sets\"); so.addVariable(\"names\", \"AC Food &#038; Wine Festival\"); so.addVariable(\"userName\", \"offmanhattan\"); so.addVariable(\"userId\", \"13996673@N03\"); so.addVariable(\"ids\", \"72157621831563279\"); so.addVariable(\"titles\", \"on\"); so.addVariable(\"displayNotes\", \"on\"); so.addVariable(\"thumbAutoHide\", \"off\"); so.addVariable(\"imageSize\", \"medium\"); so.addVariable(\"vAlign\", \"mid\"); so.addVariable(\"vertOffset\", \"0\"); so.addVariable(\"colorHexVar\", \"FFFFFF\"); so.addVariable(\"initialScale\", \"off\"); so.addVariable(\"bgAlpha\", \"90\"); so.write(\"PictoBrowser090806000635\");\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Atlantic City drew people to the Jersey Shore for reasons other than gambling, beaches, and bikini-clad cougars. They came for the food. (Or, in the case of a line of blushing ladies, photos with Tom Colicchio.) Produced by Harrah\u2019s Entertainment and benefiting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity, Atlantic City\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,329,316],"tags":[31,21,228,300,142,125,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-5697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archive","8":"category-new-jersey-destination","9":"category-weekend-getaways","10":"tag-bar","11":"tag-beach","12":"tag-casinos","13":"tag-celebrity","14":"tag-festival","15":"tag-food","16":"tag-wine"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":16646,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/images-12.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}