National Food Festivals and Food Events, Sept. 1-8, 2009

by POPSUGAR Food 3

Even though Memorial Day seemed like yesterday, Labor Day's already crept up on us. If you don't have major travel plans for the long weekend, celebrate Summer's last hurrah with a gaggle of glorious food festivals, big and small.

Enjoy potjie, a three-legged South African cooking pot, in Texas, butterbeans in Alabama, and hamburgers in Pennsylvania.

The two events I'm really dying to attend? The famed Best in the West Rib Cook-Off and upstate New York's yearly Buffalo Wing Festival. Where will you make an appearance this weekend? Let us know in the comments below!

• St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Cooks! — Sept. 1
• New York, NY: Slow U: Ice Cream, From Sugar and Snow — Sept. 1
• Millersport, OH: Millersport Sweet Corn Festival — Sept. 2-5
• Sparks, NV: Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-Off — Sept. 2-7
• Morgan City, LA: Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival — Sept. 3-7
• Village of Pinehurst, NC: Pinehurst Food & Wine Fest — Sept. 3-7
• Sonoma, CA: Sonoma Wine Country Weekend — Sept. 4-6
• Kerrville, TX: Kerrville Wine & Music Festival — Sept. 4-6
• Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Rib America Festival — Sept. 4-7
• Rusk, TX: Texas Potjie Festival - Sept. 4-7
• Denver, CO: A Taste of Colorado – Sept. 4-7
• Cleveland, OH: Taste of Cleveland — Sept. 4-7
• Fallon, NV: Fallon Cantaloupe Festival — Sept. 4-7
• Hamburg, PA: Taste of Hamburg-er Festival — Sept. 5

To see the rest, read more.

• Pinson, AL: Alabama Butterbean Festival — Sept. 5
• Irvington, VA: Irvington Stomp — Sept. 5
• Hatch, NM: Hatch Valley Chile Festival — Sept. 5-6
• Millbrae, CA: Millbrae Art & Wine Festival — Sept. 5-6
• Buffalo, NY: National Buffalo Wing Festival — Sept. 5-6
• Shawnee, PA: Pocono Garlic Festival — Sept. 5-6
• Arthur, IL: Amish Country Cheese Festival — Sept. 5-7
• Bernalillo, NM: New Mexico Wine Festival — Sept. 5-7
• Martin, TN: Tennessee Soybean Festival — Sept. 5-13
• New Orleans, LA: The Big Two Revisted: Sazerac and Ramos Gin Fizz — Sept. 8

Source