Food festival

A food festival is a festival, usually held annually, that uses food, often produce, as its central theme. "These festivals have always been a means of uniting communities through celebrations of harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season. They can be traced back thousands of years to celebrating the arrival of harvest time, the autumnal equinox, and the honoring of earth gods.

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Australia

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North America

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Utah Honey Harvest Festival returns to Clark Historic Farm this weekend

Tooele Transcript Bulletin 10 Oct 2018

Admission to the festival is free ... In addition to various honey vendors and demonstrations, there will be a pumpkin growing contest, fiddle festival, petting zoo, food trucks and more family-friendly activities for attendees ... Once festival goers have worked up an appetite, they can visit food vendors such as Simply Bliss BBQ, Mama Africa, and Begay’s Navajo Tacos....

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Chef Kofi Agyekum For Ghana At 2018 West Africa Food Festival

Modern Ghana 28 Sep 2018

Pastry Chef, Kofi Agyekum is set to make Ghana proud again at a culinary contest put together by the Ghana Chefs Association. Produced under the theme Indigenous Cuisine and Culinary Innovation , The West African Food Festival is an innova ... ....

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Flight Centre & Gautrain offer travel packages for Heritage day Festival

Independent online (SA) 13 Sep 2018

Travel company Flight Centre and commuter rail company Gautrain are offering promotional packages to a food and music festival later this month as South Africa observes Heritage day....

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Unembargoed: August 31 to September 6

Mail Guardian South Africa 02 Sep 2018

It’s no secret that South Africa’s water sector faces big problems ... The Third Mainland Bridge has become part of the fabric of Africa’s most populous city ... Cheaper food has helped to ease the pain but an ever weakening rand means the prognosis is poorState non-payment implodes building company ... Street Food Festival ZA, Jazz in the Cradle, Shonibare conversations and exhibition Madiba becomes one with the elements....

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Mi Casa's bromance is 'better' than ever

Independent online (SA) 03 Aug 2018

The band will be performing at the Luju Food and Lifestyle Festival to be held in Mbabane, Swaziland. Through its African vintage theme, Luju will celebrate Africa’s beauty and style, featuring food, drink, music, art and lifestyle experiences, as well as some of the most exciting musical performances from across southern Africa....

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Toronto: Taste of Africa's good taste and fun

The Patriotic Vanguard 15 Jul 2018

Just the perfect day for the Taste of Africa and Mask festival organized for the first time in Toronto by Tegloma, a Sierra Leonean charity and community service organization with branches in many parts of the world ... But Taste of Africa is not about politics but African culture and it is also not limited to Sierra Leone and Sierra Leoneans but about the whole African continent ... Paul and some members of his festival team....

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The Food Fair Celebrating Africa's Most Appetising

Vogue 29 May 2018

ow do you sum up Africa's food culture? Many across the world may only be familiar with a handful of its most famous dishes, but it is impossible to encapsulate the vast and varied cuisines of the continent in just a few meals. The GTBank Food and Drink Fair, as the region's leading food festival, comes to the cosmopolitan Nigerian city of Lagos each year to celebrate and showcase the diversity of Africa's unique culinary offering....

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Africa Day Fest embraces diversity in cultures

Arkansas Online 24 May 2018

This year marks the second year for the festival in Little Rock's South Main Street district, a celebration of African arts and culture through food, fashion, dance and music ... In his time in the United States, he says, he has encountered people with misconceptions about Africa and he sees the festival as a way to change that ... The Saturday festival will also feature a fashion show and African food....

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St. Petersburg chef Edouardo Jordan garners two James Beard Award honors

Tampa Bay Times 08 May 2018

Jordan returns home for Manhattan Casino celebration, collard greens festival. At JuneBaby, Jordan creates classic Southern soul food that "merges influences from West Africa, Western Europe and North America ." ... With Salare, Jordan captures "America's diverse culture of food with influences from America's South, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean Islands," according to the restaurant's website ... Who's Who of Food &-Beverage in America....

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8 Days a Week: Resilience, A Raisin in the Sun, Greater Columbia Record Fair, Slam, ...

Free Times 25 Apr 2018

Among your choices is the 2nd Annual Taste of Africa Festival, an effort to showcase the diversity of people, art, food, fashion and music across the continent and in South Carolina’s own vibrant African community ... Looking for something a bit heavier on the sun, bites and drinks? The 4th Annual South Carolina Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival is at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds today....

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International Food and Drinks Festival Opens in Ibadan

This Day 10 Mar 2018

This Easter, Ibadan, West Africa’s largest city, will play host to the International Food and Drinks Festival. The festival, conceived to be a gathering of fun lovers especially families ... Eki also said, “The International Food and Drinks festival has been held all over the world to much acclaim....

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UPB Cultural Festival to celebrate ‘we are one’

The Bradford Era 17 Feb 2018

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will hold its popular annual One World Cultural Festival Feb ... The festival celebrates ... Festivities begin at 6.30 p.m ... Food from four regions (Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America) will be served at tasting stations with authentic recipes coming from student members of the Cultural Festival planning committee....

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WATCH: The business of music festivals in SA

Independent online (SA) 09 Feb 2018

CAPE TOWN - The music festival scene in South Africa caters for a variety of people whether you listen to hip-hop, trance, heavy metal, indie, Jazz or electro house ... You would be surprised to know that Afropunk which happened in Johannesburg 2017, employed 1,100 people, and 200 small businesses benefited from market access through selling food and clothing at the festival....

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