10 Fun Foodie Festivals
Food traditions, regional agriculture, local novelties, and simple good tastes are celebrated across the U.S. with countless seasonal festivals and themed parties. It’s easy to fill up your travel calendar with foodie events. To help you get started, here are a few suggestions; this is by no means a comprehensive list! These featured foodie events aren’t necessarily the best known or largest of their kind, but they all offer a variety of events and last multiple days.
Culinary & Craft School
Tiffany Luhnow is a polite, soft-spoken woman who exudes kindness and good will. Yet, people frequently pick a fight with her. “They see me using an egg wash on the edges of my cinnamon rolls and they get very upset,” says Luhnow. “They think it’s butter and they insist I should be spreading more butter everywhere, all over the cinnamon rolls. They become very adamant about it,” she laughs.
Oyster Farm Dinner
“If you like oysters, then you probably love oysters,” says Dylan Block-Harley, director of operations at Walrus & Carpenter Oysters. “And if you love oysters there’s nothing better than eating them right out of the water.” But if you don’t work at the aquaculture farm in Charlestown, Rhode Island, you can’t really have that experience—unless you manage to snag a coveted spot at one of its summer farm dinners, which happen on a sandbar right in the middle of the oyster farm.
