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
