Another year means another chance for foodies and "celebuchef" lovers to find ways to fork over serious cash for a variety of events in the South Beach Food and Wine Festival. Miami.com is here and ready to check some of these events out, and first stop on this Assistant Editor's roster was a solo trip to the 2009 Rachael Ray hosted Amstel Light Burger Bash.

Being as how the economy is recently tanking, I expected a decent yet not "over-the-top" crowd to head on over to the beach behind the Ritz Carlton South Beach to taste a variety of burgers from top eateries from all over the United States. As I stepped onto the area myself at around 6:45 p.m., excited to be at the event yet cursing my choice of platform shoes that kept sinking into the soft sand, I was surprised to see a healthy amount of people ready to step inside and find out what exactly would be waiting inside the gigantic white tent.

Burgers, here I come....and, as the picture proves, I was going to have to wait in a lengthy line to get my hands on a juicy one.

--Aurora Rodriguez