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Eight Summer Food Festivals Worth the Schlep

blogs.sfweekly.com — There are plenty of larger food festivals to satiate you -- if you're willing to travel. Here's a roundup of some of the best.

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  • AllINeed, on 06/02/2009, -0/+11Ooh... The Gilroy Garlic Festival. Garlic alligator, garlic gum, garlic ice cream... and garlic breath :) It is still worth the shlep and the after-effects.
  • janinekahn, on 06/02/2009, -0/+8That baby food fest is a weird one. But the D.C. BBQ battle sounds like something I could sink my teeth into.
  • asgardshill, on 06/03/2009, -0/+5No Taste of Chicago? Bah - I've never been so miserably full but so happy all at the same time.
  • athinnes, on 10/01/2009, -0/+5RibFest in Chicago needs to be on this list.
  • RileyCourage, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5Am I the only one who gets heartburn just smelling those damn garlic fries? AND CAN'T STOP EATING THEM! Move over pesto, there's a new suburban crack in town.
  • teemoney415, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5Dugg for Gilroy Garlic Fest
  • t1n0m3n, on 06/03/2009, -1/+5"an adult cherry pie eating contest"

    giggity
  • Dellortnibevu, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3fatties!


    ?
  • CaptainNoPants, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3Buffalo Wing Festival Buffalo NY Labor Day Weekend
  • TheUngod, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3AKA Testefest
  • wesleyzero, on 06/03/2009, -0/+3No mention of the great Rocky Mountain Oysterfest of '09? "More Nut for Your Gut?" I am flabbergasted.
  • borez, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2OK now I'm REALLY hungry.
  • suzannethetiger, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2lighten up, Francis.
  • matthewf01, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2OK we'll need some kind of Diggbus to take us all around the country to tour all of the food festivals. Then we take pictures, submit them to ThisIsWhyYoureFat.com and digg them when we get home from our trip.
  • protogenxl, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Feh!
  • BoneStamp, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Chocolate Fest... 1.5 hours from Chicago:
    http://www.chocolatefest.com/location.html
  • cawfee, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2What, no hot sauce festival?
  • zagatbuzz, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2A great roundup to get the taste buds going. I am shuddering to imagine the breath at the Garlic Fest though..
  • robbiedo, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2Miss Garlic 2008 Ariele Combs. Would you kiss her
    http://gilroygarlicfestival.com/?p=62
  • robbob, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2I'm no Jew but I dugg this for "Schlep"
  • ionelementz112, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1My aunt travels all the way from Switzerland for the Gilroy Garlic Festival.
  • LacY, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1I know it's in May, so not technically Summer, but for BBQ, it's all about the Memphis in May BBQ festival.
  • V3n0M, on 06/04/2009, -0/+1Have a ball at the Testicle Festival!

    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1615335/t ...
  • theuber1337, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1I was in Fremont last summer visiting friends and that was going on. It was actually a lot of fun.
  • PistolFred, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1Any chance she's from near Bern, home of the yearly onion festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zibelem%C3%A4rit)?
  • ejc123, on 06/27/2009, -0/+1For a real festival drive the back roads of the country and stop at the fresh fruit stands - Apples in NY, Cherries in Washington, Tomatoes in New Jersey, etc. Check your web travel guides - frommers, fodors,
    http://www.tripcart.com/
  • borez, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1Keh?
  • ionelementz112, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1She lives near Zurich.
  • MairaS01, on 09/18/2009, -0/+0Just 8. Why not more? ;)
  • wbeavis, on 06/03/2009, -1/+1"Worth the Schlep"? Obviously we have different concepts of worth. As much as I like food (and I do), the cost of time and money to visit any of these festivals is not worth it. Hundreds for airfare, hotel, and time off work. Time waiting in lines from the airport to the festival events. For what? Food I can get locally and a bunch of campy events.

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