{"id":267,"date":"2006-10-30T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=267"},"modified":"2006-10-30T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:48:11","slug":"pacific_palate__5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/pacific_palate__5\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Palate Contest &#8211; Your Most Memorable Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>November 13, 2006<\/em><\/strong><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/front_bang.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Front_bang\" height=\"92\" alt=\"Front_bang\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/front_bang.gif\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; <strong><em>UPDATE:&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong><u>Contest entries are now closed.&nbsp; Thanks to all of you for sending in some wonderful entries.&nbsp; Winners will be announced and notified on November 14th. <\/u>After ten years, Pacific Palate on CBC Radio&#8217;s The Early Edition is coming to an end. There&#8217;s a reason behind my departure, and I&#8217;ll reveal all the why&#8217;s and where&#8217;s on November the 14th. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, to reward my loyal listeners, we are running a fantastic contest you can win by telling me about your most memorable meal&#8230;all you have to do is scroll down to the comments section of this page, and write no more than <strong>TWO PARAGRAPHS<\/strong> about your most memorable meal ever.&nbsp; We&#8217;ll read some of the entries on the air, and on November 14th we&#8217;ll announce the grand prize winner.&nbsp; The deadline is noon, Monday, November 13th.<\/p>\n<p>The grand prize so far includes dinners for two at three of the best new restaurants in Vancouver:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatisnu.com\/\">Nu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rarevancouver.com\/\">Rare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senovarestaurant.ca\/\">Senova<\/a>.&nbsp; For an updated list of prizes, (yes, there&#8217;s more!) click <a href=\"\/2006\/11\/pacific_palate_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/memorable_meal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorable_meal\" height=\"233\" alt=\"Memorable_meal\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/memorable_meal.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> For me, my most memorable meal of recent times came this spring in Italy, with my wife Ramona at a tiny little bistro in Rome.&nbsp; It was the perfect lunch, joking with the waiter, being able to point at a dish of large, tenderly braised artichokes in the kitchen and having them delivered seconds later to our table, toothsome pastas, and an amazing appetizer of fresh cantaloupe, arugula and prosciutto.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to hearing your stories about your most memorable meal!&nbsp; &#8230;and good luck in the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 13, 2006&nbsp; UPDATE:&nbsp; Contest entries are now closed.&nbsp; Thanks to all of you for sending in some wonderful entries.&nbsp; Winners will be announced and notified on November 14th. After ten years, Pacific Palate on CBC Radio&#8217;s The Early Edition &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/pacific_palate__5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-pacific-palate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}