These days, there are foodfestivals everywhere. If you are a true foodie like me, you certaintly have to go to these 14 most popular food festivals over the world.
1. Wildfoods Festival (Hokitika, New Zealand)
Over 50 stalls offering every element of wild food from glorious gourmet to feral feast! examples are : wild pork, sheep’s brains, sweetbreads …
2. Annual Golden Spurtle (Cairngorms, Scotland)
The Scots celebrate their superfood with a highly competitive festival at carrbridge, a village in the Cairngorms National Park.
3. The Onion Market (Bern, Switzerland)
there are 50-tons of onion braids, rings and single bulbs on display, but textiles, jewelry, ceramics and children’s toys are also on sale.
4. Watercress Festival (Hampshire, England)
This little festival celebrates the humble watercress; a versatile aquatic herb liberally used in traditional English cooking in soups, salads and sauces.
5. Salon de Chocolate (Quito, Ecuador)
Ecuador produces more high-quality chocolate than any other country
6. Bacon Festival (Sacramento, California)
California’s capital has raised its game for the foodie traveler with a festival focusing on everyone’s favorite: bacon. Bacon gelato, bacon salad, bacon ramen and bacon tater tots on offer, no wonder the festival is popular.
7. Blue Food Festival (Bloody Bay, Tobago)
This is a root plant of the taro variety, eaten in abundance in the Caribbean because it can be cultivated in flooded conditions.
8. PoutineFest (Ottawa, Canada)
traditional poutine, exotic and international flavors such as pad Thai poutine, butter chicken poutine, beef jerky, smoked salmon and pulled pork poutine.
9. Castagnades chestnut festival (Ardeche, France)
Chestnuts are an important ingredient in Ardeche cooking, ground into soups, added to stews or baked into a crisp flat cake called the Pisadou. The chestnutsare sold fresh, turned into confectionery as glazed “marron glaces,” converted into a brown flour and, this being France, brewed into a beer or a highly alcoholic liqueur.
10. Dumpling Festival (Hong Kong)
The zongzi dumplings consumed on this day in June consist of glutinous rice with different fillings wrapped in bamboo, lotus or banana leaves.
11. National Cherry Festival (Traverse City, Michigan)
there’s a weeklong cherry celebration in July offering pit-spitting competitions, pie-baking contests, a Grand Cherry Parade and the crowning of a Cherry Queen.
12. Pizzafest (Naples, Italy)
Every night during one week in September, Napoli’s Lungomare Caracciolo area becomes a pizza village with 500,000 visitors who consume more than 100,000 pizzas of every kind.
13. Vegetarian Festival (Phuket, Thailand)
eating veggie for nine days. It might seem as though it’s the same carnivore-friendly dishes on restaurant menus, but the cooks use soybean and protein substitute products instead of meat.
14. Herring Festival (Hvide Sande, Denmark)
It’s the Denmark’s biggest angling competition wich takes place , the last weekend of April in Hvide Sande, when the herrings migrate to the area. It’s the biggest herring festival in the country, where visitors come to eat some of the best fried herrings , fish cakes and other herring-based dishes, or attend various fishing classes and workshops.
