This past weekend, many of us — many thousands of us — spent three days eating and drinking ourselves silly at The Taste, the L.A. Times’ annual food festival. Many capable people turned Paramount Studios into a Disneyland for foodies, with demonstration stages and booths and even a blue car. Thanks to all the chefs, cooks and bartenders who came out and spent their holiday weekend working. To mark the occasion, and for those of you who couldn’t come — and somehow missed the zillion tweets we sent out — here are a few highlights. See you (we hope) next year.