Ocean Spray Cranberry Bog Hits Big Apple

  • September 30, 2011
Ocean Spray is launching a pop-up restaurant inside a cranberry bog at New York City's Rockefeller Center on Oct. 18. Only 30 guests are invited, though.

The "Cranberry Mix & MINGle" program, featuring culinary creations of Chef Ming Tsai, is a promotion dangling a chance to partake of the cranberry-infused drinks and appetizers within a 1,500-square-foot bog filled with 2,000 pounds of floating cranberries, per the company.

Visitors to the bog that day will have a chance to enter a ballot drawing, to determine the winner of a ticket to the "Cranberry Mix & MINGle" experience. One person and a guest will get a trip to New York and a seat at the cranberry-themed meal via Facebook "Perfect Pairings" contest, which runs through Oct. 3.

The six recipe pairings created by Chef Ming Tsai and Ocean Spray tout Ocean Spray's Cranberry Juice Cocktail, Cranberry Juice Cocktail with Lime and Sparkling Juice Drinks and will range from "mocktails" to savory dishes.

To vie for a chance to attend, consumers can go to Ocean Spray's Facebook page (facebook.com/oceanspray) and submit recipe ideas using cranberries for the chance to win the cranberry themed trip to the Big Apple.

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At the event itself Ming Tsai will answer questions from inside the faux bog, via Twitter. Fans can ask questions to hashtag #askMing or ahead of time via an "Ask Ming" tab on Ocean Spray's Facebook page, per the company.

The program includes a live, interactive interview with Chef Ming Tsai on Oct. 18, a chance to meet third-, fourth- and fifth-generation cranberry growers, as well as the characters from Ocean Spray's advertising campaign, including the great actor and Brooklyn resident Henry Strozier.

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