food IS a theme park
Celebrities love their Disney trips! Why wouldn’t they, we love our Disney trips too!
Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland
Celebrities are seen at the parks ALL THE TIME! Most recently, a Disney icon was seen having the time of her life at Disneyland Resort!
Stars are just like us! They drink Disney margaritas, they LOVE Star Wars, and they enjoy Jungle Cruise jokes as much as we do! Of course, some celebrities have Disney roots that go even DEEPER!
It’s The Rock!
Some stars even got their start working for Disney — many of whom you probably had no idea about!
We’re pumped for the upcoming Disney Family Singalong on ABC, especially because we’ll get to see folks from some of the most famous Disney faces like Christina Aguilera, Kristin Chenoweth, and Josh Gad.
The Disney Family Singalong ©Disney
We can’t wait to get our pipes ready to belt alongside some of the greats, and now we’re even MORE excited! Disney just announced a bunch more celebrities who will join the special and some of them are BIG. You’re gonna want to see this list.
Dinner:Impossible Production Sign
After walking out of the Disney “Give A Day, Get A Disney Day” announcement event on Thursday, I saw none other than Chef Robert Irvine running through World Showcase with a team of volunteers behind him! I quickly realized that he was taping Dinner:Impossible! for the Food Network…and that I was going to be attending that dinner!
Scroll to the bottom of the page to read more about the “Give A Day” program and how you can be a part of it; in the meantime, let’s get on to the food…
Chef Irvine Plots With His Volunteers
Dinner Prep
Chef Irvine and his volunteers were preceded around the the World Showcase by an advance team who were tasked with finding the next individual the Chef would be speaking with, and setting up the shot. For instance, in Epcot’s Germany pavilion, the advance team set up a shot where Chef Irvine learned from Snow White what one of his main ingredients would be!
From there, the Chef and his volunteers took off running again — after all, he only had a few hours to cook dinner for hundreds.
Dinner:Impossible Advance Team
Chef Irvine and Team Run to the Next Shot
For the hours of cooking Chef Irvine and his trusted sous chefs were about to endure, Disney had set up a show kitchen in front of World Showcase. Guests to the Epcot theme park were welcomed to watch as the show taping started heating up! I hung around for a good chunk of the day, snapping photos and trying to figure out what my meal was going to include. All I could figure out was that we were going to be eating a lot of apples…
One interesting thing I noticed is that the proceedings in the kitchen were pretty quiet. Lots of chopping, and seasoning, and sauteing in a giant wok being heated over a…garbage can, but no yelling. No angry Chef Irvine shouting in frustration that there are only 3 dishes done with only 20 minutes left. Maybe there was another kitchen somewhere where those things were happening. It’s not a Dinner:Impossible! show without them! My fingers are crossed that somebody got angry somewhere, or it might not be worth watching. 😉
Dinner Impossible Waiver
Chef Irvine Instructs a Sous Chef in the Show Kitchen
The Dinner
After much running around by Chef Irvine and his sous chefs, it was finally time for those at the event to start digging in! Now, here’s the saddest part of my story — I’m pretty sure I didn’t get to eat Chef Irvine’s cooking. Word is that his handiwork was served only to the Give a Day Get a Day volunteers, who’d won trips to Disney World to celebrate their donations.
Alas, I’m still going to tell you all about the dinner WE, as members of the media, were served, because it was still delicious — thanks, Disney!
The event was held outside — on the bridge between the Fountain of Nations in Future World and the World Showcase Lagoon, and there were several stations set up where guests could collect appetizer-sized portions of the dishes.
Servers were also circulating with many of the dishes — primarily desserts — in case you couldn’t break away from a conversation to get over to the main serving areas. There were quite a few tables set up within the event space, along with cocktail tables bearing [Read more…]
I’ve had a busy and rewarding day at the Walt Disney World “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” media event; and while you’ll be seeing in-depth blogs over the next few days about my adventures, I wanted to share with you as soon as possible a few of my favorite Disney photos from today.
So, come along with me on this mini-photo-trip-report!
My Disney Day in Photos
First, we got up early-early-early to head over to Epcot for our Akershus breakfast with the Princesses. I think this is just about the most true-to-“life” Snow White I’ve ever seen:
Snow White at Akershus Restaurant
Then it was off to the “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” Media Event, but what do I see as I’m walking around World Showcase? Giant tin cans!! These were used throughout Epcot today as themeing for the Volunteer Events! This one indicated that a VERY cool Detroit radio station would be broadcasting live from Epcot today! (Shout out to Jake Edwards!)
Detroit 96.3 Radio Station Broadcast Location Marker
Finally made it around the Showcase in time for the big World Record reveal and Media Event. This is the World’s Largest Sculpture Made of Canned Goods! Be sure to check out our breakdown of the foods used for each character!
Canned Goods Sculpture Reveal at Disney World
And of course I needed to get Pluto’s picture in front of his canned-good likeness!
Disney's Pluto with Canned Goods Pluto
I was thrilled to see that Mickey’s fingers were made out of huge-mongo bags of [Read more…]
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