Food Festivals For March 7-9

Looking for a food festival to attend this weekend?  Me too.  I visited this website http://www.foodreference.com and found the following fun choices for you.  Bon Appétit!

March 7-8, 2008 4th Annual Savor Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Including the Arts District Wine Stroll, Victory Park Celebration, celebrity chef cooking demos and wine tasting seminars with the pros, and The International Grand Tasting, an extravaganza of over 500 wines and 50 top chefs serving signature samples.

March 7-9, 2008 Stanthorpe Apple & Grape Harvest Festival
Stanthorpe, QLD, Australia
The Biannual Stanthorpe Apple & Grape Harvest Festival is Australia’s Premier Harvest Festival and 2008 will be its 42nd year. 3 big days and nights of entertainment, food & wine.

March 7-9, 2008 Lions 27th Seafood & Music Festival
St. Augustine, Florida
Great seafood, live bluegrass, folk and country music, and over 100 arts and crafts exhibitors are just a few of the highlights

March 7-9, 2008 3rd Annual Austin Chocolate Festival
Austin, Texas
Participating vendors offer samples to festival guests and they compete in up to 12 categories. The public & industry professionals judge the competitions and the winners are based on their votes.

March 7-9, 2008 Shoulda Been A Cowboy Association BBQ-Cookoff
Houston, Texas

March 8, 2008 Milk River Wagon Train Feed and Dance
Malta, Montana
Enjoy the tall tales, companionship and vittles of veterans and ‘scissor-billed’ greenhorns as we share adventures of life in northern Montana, fueled by a scrumptious feed of Rocky Mountain Oysters and other tender morsels.

March 8, 2008 BCA 15th Annual Cultural Awareness Salute Dinner
New York, New York
Entitled “The Power of the Past to Shape the Future,” the Cultural Awareness Salute provides a glimpse of the future with a multi-course meal and wine pairing prepared by culinary school students.

March 8-9, 2008 Fort Myers Shrimp Festival
Fort Myers, Florida

March 8-9, 2008 Highland Maple Festival
Monterey, Virginia
Each year, thousands of visitors are drawn to this unspoiled, rural region of Virginia to celebrate the “opening” of the trees and observe the process of maple syrup-making. Sugar camp tours provide a unique and educational experience that portrays a rapidly vanishing way of American life.

March 9, 2008 19th Annual U.S. Pastry Competition
New York, New York
Presented by Paris Gourmet. The nation’s leading pastry professionals compete for the coveted title, “Pastry Chef of the Year.” (At the Int’l Rest & Foodservice Show)

March 9-10, 2008 A Taste of the Huon
Ranelagh, Tasmania, Australia
‘A Taste of the Huon’, now in its 16th year, is a celebration of fine food, wine, entertainment, arts and crafts from the Huon Valley and Channel region – held at Ranelagh which is only 30 minutes scenic drive south of Hobart.

March 9-10, 2008 Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival
Warkworth, Ontario, Canada