Cheap traveloptions, including cheapairplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, discounttravel deals, and cheap vacation packages havemade travel affordable to the masses. When trying to settle on a destination, you should consider checking outsome of Americas top food festivals.
Food festivals offer a chance to explore a new place andindulge in some fantastic food. AnthonyAnderson, a guest judge on Iron Chef has enjoyed the following foodfestivals:
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NewOrleans Wine and Food Experience is where participants can sample dishes fromdozens of restaurants promoting their food at the convention center. Crawfish, shrimp, and other seafood fromlocal waters stood out.
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WorldChampionship Steak Cook-off at the Magnolia Blossom Festival in Magnolia,Arkansas is held every May and is where you can sample and learn how to cook agood steak from many of the dozens of vendors. Learn their searing process, including a reverse sear: smoking the meatfirst and then searing it.
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HuckleberryFestival in Trout Creek, Montana, held this year August 8th throughthe 10th, includes jam, jelly, and dessert competitions, as well asa guaranteed to be messy pie eating contest. Mornings commence with huckleberry pancake breakfasts in the Fire Hall,as well as a parade and a Huckleberry Hound dog agility competition.
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Isleof Eight Flags Shrimp Festival in Fernandina Beach, Florida is a May event whereyou can have shrimp any way you can think of, including fried, grilled andbroiled. During the festivalparticipants celebrate the areas marauding heritage with a pirate battle. Shrimp dishes came on kabobs with strawberries,shrimp gumbo, shrimp pie, low country boil with shrimp, as well as many othervarieties.
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TexasCrab Festival in Crystal Beach, Texas is a Mothers Day weekend celebrationtimed for the soft shell crab season. Crab is prepared in many different ways including a crab guacamole dish,a garlic, butter and crab rice with crab meatballs wrapped in bacon, and a crabpie, as well as a gumbo cook-off.
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Ribfestis a Chicago tradition held in June where 50,000 pounds of pork are consumed ina single weekend. There is nothing atthe festival but endless meat and smokers lined down the street.
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BlueRidge BBQ Festival can be found in June in Tyron, N.C. There you will find plenty of smoking pits aswell as people cooking duck confit with bacon.
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L.A.Taco Festival in Boyle Heights, California, is an annual event scheduled onAugust 16th this year that attracts some of the top purveyors inEast Los Angeles and supports a charity that finds housing for homeless youngpeople. Musical entertainment isprovided and while tacos are available for only a couple of dollars, a $45premium all you can eat ticket includes VIP seating and tequila tasting.
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LongGrove Strawberry Festival in Long Grove, Illinois is an early summer fruitfest. Dishes range from simple ones toothers that had strawberry ravioli with tasty cream sauce. An unbelievably tender steak sandwich wasoffered that came with strawberry salsa.
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RockwoodIce Cream Festival in Wilmington, Delaware is where ice cream lovers can findscores of flavors, vendors, dairies, and restaurants. There is nothing simple about ice cream atthis festival. One of the more decadent presentationswas a homemade caramel corn version with bacon on top of a sundae.
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