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.

Oceania

Australia

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North America

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Toronto Black Film Festival to feature #MeToo's Tarana Burke and women's stories

Canada Dot Com 23 Jan 2019

... relationship with her drug-addled son in South Africa ... A total of 70 films from 26 countries are in the lineup for the festival, which runs in several venues around the city and has a section for children and a food station featuring cuisine from across Africa and the Caribbean....

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Holiday traditions around the world

Las Vegas Sun 08 Dec 2018

The next two months are a season brimming with food, friends, family and festivities for cultures around the world. From the Philippines to South Africa, individuals join together to honor their religion, their loved ones and many other traditions ... ....

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International Festival brings world to Edmond

The Oklahoman 14 Nov 2018

... International Festival on Nov ... Countries, cultures and regions that will be highlighted at the festival include Africa, Arab, China, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Vietnam....

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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Nov. 2-9

LA Daily News 02 Nov 2018

Los Angeles Coffee Festival. All about coffee with free coffee tasting, demonstrations, coffee-inspired films, local food vendors and workshops ... Israel Film Festival ... “Arts of Africa Festival,” program for all ages includes African-inspired food, gallery talks on the current exhibits, music and storytelling, noon-5 p.m....

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Utah Honey Harvest Festival returns to Clark Historic Farm this weekend

Tooele Transcript Bulletin 10 Oct 2018

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 ... Joe Carter, Women in Southern Africa, and BlacKkKlansman This Weekend. 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 ... Paul and some members of his festival team ... Group photo of festival organisers. The food was cheap too....

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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 ... 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....

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

Tampa Bay Times 08 May 2018

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....