Antoni Porowski, Bella Twins move latkes, laughs to USA TODAY Wine & Food Experience in NYC

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Brie and Nikki are featured guest on a 10-city USA TODAY Wine Food Experience tour
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NEW YORK — For Antoni Porowski, a corgi mania is unequivocally real. 

The “Queer Eye” dreamboat went viral this summer with an darling video of him losing it over a small dogs. His purgation continued during a cooking proof during a USA TODAY Wine Food Experience in Brooklyn Saturday, where he suggested skeleton to eventually adopt one and name it Charlie. 

“I’d like to one day when life kind of calms down,” Porowski pronounced with a grin, accidentally chopping potatoes as he answered fans’ questions. “No shade to cats, though we can leave them during home all day. With dogs, we unequivocally can’t and I’m never home. Unless we carted it around with me everywhere – that’d be nice.” 

Porowski, 35, was charmingly vehement via his half-hour presentation, goofily weighing in on all from Taylor Swift to pumpkin piquancy lattes as he done Frenchified latkes, from a recipe featured in his initial cookbook “Antoni in a Kitchen,” that was expelled Monday. The plate was upheld down to him from his Polish newcomer mom, with some-more onions than normal Jewish latkes and a robust assisting of cheese. 

“We all have dishes that we remember fondly, from things that we’d have when we were kids to food we’d eat when we were broke,” Porowski told USA TODAY after a cooking demo. “I remember being a child and carrying (latkes) and that was a special thing we enjoyed with my mom and my sisters and my dad. we was adult there on theatre and only remembered, ‘Oh, yeah, this is something we used to have together.’ It’s good to remember those things and we consider it’s important.” 

Porowski was one of a handful of chefs and sommeliers on palm for a New York stop of a USA TODAY Wine Food Experience, that continues a inhabitant debate by mid-November with events in cities including Detroit; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Chicago; and Scottsdale, Arizona.

“Chopped” star Alex Guarnaschelli and two-time James Beard endowment leader David Lynch were among a biggest names to deplane on Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for a three-hour outside festival, that welcomed scarcely 2,500 attendees, according to festival organizers. 

Perhaps a many interesting display of a afternoon belonged to twin sisters Brie and Nikki Bella, a former WWE wrestling duo-turned-wine aficionados. In 2017, a Bella twins started their possess booze label, Belle Radici, whose singular run of 2015 Napa Valley Reserve Chardonnay was a strike during Saturday’s event. 

“We adore booze tasting, though a one thing about my sister and we is that we don’t sip and dump – we sip and gulp,” Brie confessed to fans during their laidback “Partners in Wine” seminar. 

“Yes!” Nikki chimed in. “Has anyone here been to booze country? Do we guys flow it out, or do we splash it all? Drink it all!” 

The dyad warranted visit laughs and cheers from a mostly womanlike throng for their refreshingly unobtrusive take on wine: Admitting they suffer ice in their chardonnay and tender jalapeños in their rosé, and regulating expletives to report booze varieties that smell like equine manure. 

“We’re normal – we don’t use large words: ‘It tastes like leather,'” Brie said. “We’re a majority.” 

Aside from a luminary talks, some-more than dual dozen New York restaurants, winemakers and wine brands were featured in a festival’s Grand Tasting section. Among a best things we tried: 

Du’s Donuts and Coffee. The Brooklyn bakery served adult a slew of singular pastries including pomegranate dim chocolate, creamsicle and blueberry pulp doughnuts. Our favorite was a decadent cherry cheesecake variety, surfaced with a slimey cream-cheese glaze, cherry topping and graham-cracker crumble. 

Great Northern Food Hall. For festivalgoers daunted by a constant line for Di Fara Pizza, this Scandinavian food corner during Grand Central Terminal offering adult robust snacks for them to soak adult all a alcohol. The prominence was a mouthwatering beef tartare, surfaced with watercress, preserved mustard seeds and onions. 

Lady M. Attendees couldn’t stop vehemence about this cake boutique, that has 3 Manhattan locations and offering adult dual varieties of chocolate and vanilla cakes. What separates them from your customary covering cakes is their pillowy, squashy texture, done with 20 paper-thin crepes built between blankets of light fritter cream. 

Bouley during Home. Chef David Bouley offers three- and seven-course tasting menus during his French fine-dining judgment in a Flatiron District, both of that underline a kuzu frail starter drizzled with aligote and black truffle. It was easily the smallest object we sampled, though packaged adequate large season that we had to go behind for seconds and thirds. 

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