The Great Googamooga Reveals Extra Mooga, A Festival-within-the-festival, An All-inclusive Food And Drink Lover's Wonderland

The Great GoogaMooga, the food, drink and music festival coming to Brooklyn's Prospect Park this May 19th and 20th, reveals details about Extra Mooga today, its all-inclusive, paid ticketed experience. Set in a beautiful wooded area of the park, Extra Mooga is a festival-within-the-festival and offers an unprecedented intersection of food, drink, music, comedy. The Extra Mooga program includes 20 different events per day in the way of culinary seminars, music performances, cocktail demos, wine and beer tastings, and theme parties as well as over two-dozen specially curated menus.

In what is a staggeringly impressive line-up, Extra Mooga sees names like Anthony Bourdain, Tom Colicchio, Marcus Samuelsson, Michael Symon, April Bloomfield, Masaharu Morimoto, David Chang, Ruth Reichl, Garrett Oliver, Julie Reiner, Paul Grieco, Aldo Sohm, James Murphy, Aziz Ansari, and Kristen Schaal taking to its stages. Extra Mooga will be open from 11am-9pm on Saturday, May 19, 2012 and 11am-8pm on Sunday May 20, 2012. Tickets are available at www.googamooga.com/extra-mooga. A portion of all festival proceeds will be directed to The Prospect Park Alliance, which in partnership with The City of New York, restores, develops, and operates Prospect Park for the public's enjoyment.

With the help of the famed architect and designer David Rockwell and the Rockwell Group, Extra Mooga will transport guests into a wonderland that plays on Prospect Park's wooded trails, rustic scenery and historical landmarks. There will be four different venues, each with their own programming: Pagoda Stage, Kitchen Theater Tent, Spiegel Tent, and Boathouse. Ticketholders will also have access to an exclusive main stage viewing area and to Extra Mooga-only music and entertainment acts.

While wandering throughout Extra Mooga, guests will discover over two-dozen carefully selected cocktail, wine, beer and food stations. The festival collaborated with acclaimed Mixologist and Beverage Director Julie Reiner to host cocktail offerings from her Clover Club andFlatiron Lounge as well as to create a line-up of some of the city's most respected cocktail bars including PDT, Booker and Dax, and Viktor and Spoils. Brews will be chosen by Brooklyn Brewery Brewmaster Garrett Oliver while Hearth and Terroir Co-Owner and Sommelier Paul Grieco and Peter Eastlake, Superfly Presents' Director of Wine Programming, have curated wine offerings with an A-list roster of industry personalities. The list includes Master Sommeliers and tastemakers such as Aldo Sohm of Le Bernardin, Daniel Johnnes of Daniel Boulud's Dinex Group, Laura Maniec of Corkbuzz Wine Studio, Robert Bohr, Carla Rzeszewski of The Spotted Pig, The John Dory Oyster Bar and The Breslin, Theresa Paopao of Momofuku and Richard Betts. Award-winning winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard will also be on hand, pouring, for the very first time, experimental variants of his famous Le Cigare Volant wines.

On the culinary end, Chef Tom Colicchio has created a Colicchio & Friends food station where a number of his favorite restaurants from around the country will serve food, giving guests the opportunity to try bites from outside of New York. There will also be Pop-Up Feasts where multiple, rotating food stations from restaurants with a presence in General Admission as well as some exclusive bites like California's Umami Burger can be found. Highlights from the Extra Mooga line-up according to their venue are noted below; the full schedule is available online at www.googamooga.com/extra-mooga:

BOATHOUSE: This 1905 Beaux Arts structure overlooking the park's Lullwater and Lake will take guests back in time to the roaring '20s when New York City emerged as a culture capital. In tribute to the rich history behind New York oysters, guests will