The 14th Annual EPCOT 2009 Food & Wine Festival - By the Numbers!

The EPCOT Food & Wine Festival is the largest of its kind in the world, and it's going on right now. The six week festival began September 25th and will end November 8th. During this time, lucky guests can sample food and wine from exotic cultures, as well as enjoy great entertainment while they eat. Having never been to the festival, I found the following stats very interesting (if also tantalizing - they made me feel both jealous and hungry).

• More than 300 national and international wines
• More than 76 kinds of international foods, each appetizer-sized portion priced $2-$7
• More than 160 of America’s most celebrated chefs and Walt Disney World chefs
• 405 wine and beer seminars
• More than 1,200 fireworks rockets exploding each night over World Showcase Lagoon in “IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth” grand finale to the festival
• 135 Eat to the Beat! concerts performed
• 33,000 bottles of wine and champagne
• 1.2 million hors d’oeuvre plates
• 2.1 million Vanity Fair napkins
• 750,000 beer cups
• 690,000 sumptuous samplings
• 600,000 forks
• 338,000 wine glasses
• 100,000 miniature desserts including crème brûlée, traditional apple strudel, Grand Marnier parfait with Orange Coulis and warm chocolate lava cake with Bailey’s ganache
• 3,000 gallons of soup, including cheddar cheese soup (Montreal marketplace), chicken and coconut soup with mushrooms, lemongrass and ginger (Bangkok, Thailand marketplace) and Mealie soup with crabmeat and chili oil (Capetown, South Africa marketplace)

Special thanks to John from the Disney Blog who published these first!