Bellagio

This week, spice up your free time with the chili cook-offs that are setting the country aflame. Whether you're looking for an epicurean adventure at the Bellagio, or something more along the lines of a back-country roadkill cook-off, you're in luck. Check out what's going on in your neck of the woods this week, and let us know if we've left anything off the list!

• Sante Fe, NM: Santa Fe Wine & Chile Fiesta — Sept. 24-28
• Las Vegas, NV: Gourmet's Taste of Bellagio — Sept. 25
• New York, NY: Joy of Sake New York — Sept. 25
• Providence, RI: Food for Thought — Sept. 25
• London, KY: World Chicken Festival — Sept. 25-28

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In the height of good weather, food and festivity abound, and right about now, I'm wishing I could teleport myself around the United States. First I'd hit up Manhattan for Wine 2.0's wine sampling this week, followed by the Shrimp & Grits Festival in Georgia, and then some classic Eli's cheesecake in the Windy City. Don't miss out on these events — if you do, you'll have to wait another year!

• New York, NY: The StarChefs Rising Stars Revue New York — Sept. 16
• New York, NY: Epicurious Wine.Dine.Donate New York — Sept. 17
• New York, NY: Wine 2.0 New York — Sept. 18
• Atlantic City, NJ: Celebrity Chef Tour Atlantic City — Sept. 18
• Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA: Delaware River Food & Wine Festival — Sept. 18-21
• Nappanee, IN: Nappanee Apple Festival — Sept. 18-21
• La Crescent, MN: Applefest 08 — Sept. 18-21
• Leavenworth, WA: Wenatchee River Salmon Festival — Sept. 18-21

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