This Weekend’s Food Festivals (8-7 to 8-11)
Here’s a list once more compiled from the data at foodreference.com. This is a particularly good weekend for you sweet corn fans. And the coolest festival name so far goes to the good folks in Crystal Falls, Michigan with the Humungous Fungus Fest.
August 7-9, 2008 Beaver Creek Wine & Spirits Festival Beaver Creek, Colorado
This annual festival features culinary demonstrations from nationally acclaimed chefs, a wine auction that benefits local charities and a variety of opportunities to indulge in the finer things in life.
August 7-10, 2008 Annual Hope Watermelon Festival
Hope, Arkansas
Melon Judging & Auction, Watermelon Eating Contest, Seed Spitting Contest, Big Bass Classic, antique engine show, arts & crafts, entertainment.
Mendota, Illinois
Tons of free, hot, buttered, delicious Del Monte sweet corn will be the highlight of the 61st annual Sweet Corn Festival. 60,000 visitors, who consume nearly 50 tons of sweet corn during the festival weekend.
West Point, Iowa
Iowa’s largest Sweet Corn Festival.
Crystal Falls, Michigan
Crystal Falls is ‘Home of the Humungous Fungus’, perhaps the world’s largest and oldest living organism. It covers 38 acres beneath an Iron County forest near the Wisconsin border. It is believed to be 1,500 to 10,000 years old and weigh about 100 tons – about the same as an adult blue whale. It is the species called Armillaria Bulbosa and the mushrooms it produces are commonly called ‘honey mushroom.’
Huron, Ohio
Ribs, Bluegrass & Art.
Edmonds, WA
6th St. and Bell St.
26th Year.
North Plains, Oregon
This is an annual civic event to celebrate ‘Elephant Garlic’.
August 8-10, 2008 Bite of Oregon
Portland, Oregon
The premier showcase of Oregon food, beverage and music.
Whitefish, Montana
Montana’s most definitive celebration of wine and food.
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