The World Barista Championship (WBC) is the preeminent international coffee competition. The organization-founded by the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe and the Specialty Coffee Association of America-focuses on promoting excellence in coffee, advancing the barista profession, and engaging a worldwide audience with an annual championship event that serves as the culmination of local and regional events around the globe. Each year, champions representing more than 50 Nations each prepare 4 espressos, 4 cappuccinos, and 4 original signature drinks to exacting standards in a 15-minute performance set to music.
Website World Barista Championship

The Good Food &Wine Show is one of the finest gourmet events in the world, having grown steadily since the first show in 1998. Now South Africa's premier lifestyle exhibition just got bigger and better! The show has partnered with Fiera Milano Exhibitions Africa to produce events that showcase more innovation, excitement, fun, and global appeal than ever before. Unique, highly entertaining and interactive exhibitions are designed to tickle the fancy and taste buds of even the most discerning foodies. Exhibitors get the chance to engage and sell directly to visitors, trial their products and innovations, and network with buyers and industry leaders. The Good Food & Wine Show is food and beverage like you've never experienced them before. Be sure not to miss the show closest to you.
Website Good Food &Wine Show

Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at the newly refurbished BC Place Stadium. EAT! Vancouver encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and culinary competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities.
Come for lunch and stay for dinner at EAT! Vancouver's Bites of Vancouver restaurant pavilion. The chefs of favourite Lower Mainland restaurants will serve up appetizer portions of their signature recipes. For a nominal charge ($1.00 - $4.00) per item you will be able to savour the flavours of numerous eateries. Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where you can sip and taste hundreds of different beverages. Hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen, Vancouver's Wine Diva, the Grapes & Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings of numerous local and regional beers and wines conducted by a variety of industry experts. While at EAT! Vancouver, you will also enjoy shopping in the marketplace of over 250 exhibit booths. Producers, manufacturers, retailers and food artisans will showcase a wide assortment of unique products for eating, drinking, cooking, entertaining, and outfitting a kitchen. Exhibits will include everything from gourmet foods to kitchen accessories.
Website EAT! Vancouver

New Zealand loves The Food Show. It's where we go to stock up on the best food, drink, and kitchen equipment from all over and learn how to cook like a star at home. Many exhibitors have already come on board for The Food Show Wellington and it's sure to be a fantastic event. From gourmet chocolates to local breweries, hand-cooked crisps to equipment and wineries - it's all here
Info The Food Show - Wellington

New Zealand loves The Food Show. It's where we go to stock up on the best food, drink, and kitchen equipment from all over and learn how to cook like a star at home. Learn from the masters in intimate, exclusive masterclasses. This year The Food Show Auckland Masterclass Series will feature chefs such as Peter Gordon, Sean Connolly, Simon Gault and more. Come and see talented chefs from top local restaurants and cafes prepare gourmet dishes, baking and more.
Info The Food Show - Auckland

With over 170 vendors attending, and free admission, its the biggest and best yet! Back this year is our 'Antique Alley'. Visit these booths for vintage finds including antique furniture, collectables, jewellery and more. Our "International Marketplace" offers clothing, textiles, crafts and more from exotic locales around the world. Local vendors will be lining the street, offering unique merchandise for the home, garden and you. The creations of talented local artists are on display for sale at the Artist & Artisans Marketplace. Shift your focus to the outdoors with the help of vendors offering all things garden related from seasonal decor, to plants, to gardening supplies and more. Car enthusiasts will be ecstatic to hear that our "Classic Car and Truck Show" will be back again this year. Enjoy Live Entertainment at The Muddy Water Bandshell. Bring an appetite and savour an eclectic array of foods including BBQ, Caribbean Jerk, Sushi, Pizza, Souvlaki, Sweet Potato Fries, Crepes, Deep Fried delicacies such as Pickles, Blooming Onion and Oreos, Fresh Fudge, Kettlecorn, Donuts, and Fresh Squeezed Organic Lemonade, just to name a few!
Visit our 'Free Family Fun Zone' and enjoy a variety of activities for all ages. Watch for details as festival day approaches. And don't forget to visit our Honey Producers for some of the province's most delicious Honey.
Website Beeton Honey & Garden Festival

Colborne-Cramahe Apple Blossom Tyme Festival is a fun and friendly community festival in the village of Colborne that happens on the last weekend in May each year. The festival welcomes everyone to experience the village and surrounding area in springtime, when there are wonderful apple orchards with beautiful and fragrant blossoms to enjoy. In the village, there is a collection of local vendors and food to sample along with vintage cars and tractors on display, a soap box derby race, a midway, baking contests, a competitive and fun spelling bee, and lots of other contests and activities.
Website Apple Blossom Tyme Festival

The Festival itself is always held on the first weekend in June. The 2013 Beer Festival will be the 17th Keswick Beer Festival, from humble beginnings in 1997 this event has grown into an event attracting nearly 6000 Beer enthusiasts over two days.
• 6,000 people visited the Beer Festival
• over 250 barrels of beer, lager and cider were available to sample
• endless sausage baguettes, beef burgers, pork rolls and chicken curries were consumed
• 6 live bands played
• The sun shone - most of the time!
Website Keswick Beer Festival

Philly Beer Week is a 10-day celebration of the Best Beer-Drinking City in America.
Established in 2008, it's the largest beer celebration of its kind in America, featuring hundreds of festivals, dinners, tours, pub crawls, tastings and meet-the-brewer nights to area bars, restaurants and other locations throughout Greater Philadelphia. Since its inception, more than 50 other U.S. cities have copied Philadelphia's success to launch their own beer weeks. Philly Beer Week highlights the region's diverse beer scene - its world-class breweries, neighborhood taverns, trend-setting restaurants and rich beer culture and history. Philly Beer Week draws thirsty beer fans from throughout the region and beyond, making it one of Philadelphia's key annual tourism events. Philly Beer Week is organized and operated by Philly Beer Week Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(6) organization overseen by a board comprised of brewery owners, distributors, restaurant owners and others, to promote Philadelphia's beer and hospitality industries.
Website Philly Beer Week

The 6th annual American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF) is the east coast's largest celebration of American craft beer, featuring 600+ craft beers from 135+ American brewers. Tickets are available online via Eventbrite starting Feb 1 at 12pm EST. $47.50 per person, per session; fees will apply. no refunds. no exchanges. no exceptions. Tickets will be $55 (cash) at the door; if available for non-sold out sessions. Price includes: 1 x ticket to a session, all beer tastings, PLA compostable tasting cup and fest guide; while supplies last. For an additional cost, the Seaport World Trade Center will be selling food and non-alcoholic drinks.
Info American Craft Beer Fest

World Tea Expo is the leading trade event with a robust conference that is focused 100% on premium teas and related products. Blending fresh ideas, new trends, and new distribution channels with three days of focused buying, selling, and education, the tea industry's premier marketplace is precisely what you need to experience this growing category to its fullest. Come to World Tea Expo and steep in the possibilities
Website World Tea Expo 2013

During National Doughnut Week, participating bakers across the UK will be helping to raise money for The Children's Trust by donating money for every doughnut they sell. Bakeries and coffee shops can get involved by signing up to be a participating outlet. Or if you are an individual or a company and want to take part you can hold your very own doughnut party. Whether it is at work, at home with your friends and family or at your local Club - we don't mind where you hold your doughnut party. It is very simple, just ask people to donate to have a doughnut and have a treat. We will send you a pack with lots of ideas to help you raise money at your 'doughnut day'. Get all of your friends, family or colleagues involved and raise funds while giving yourself a treat.
Info National Doughnut Week

The 16 wine growing towns along the South Tyrolean Wine Road provide the setting for Vino in Festa for one month. A varied programme focusing on the topic of wine invites to taste, enjoy and get to know each other or simply linger in the historically and architectonically special villages.
Vino in Festa ends with the Wine cellar night on the 8th of June, when the wine cellars along the Wine Road open their doors for visitors and you can experience different wine routes with a shuttle.
Info Vino in Festa and the Wine Cellar Night

Exclusively catering for the UK's cafe bar market, the Caffè Culture Show showcases over 230 suppliers, presenting the very latest high-end products and services from all areas of the cafe bar sector. Providing a first-class business resource where visitors can learn new ways in which to develop their businesses, the show is a must attend event for established cafes looking for fresh ideas, start-ups seeking expert advice and hospitality businesses wishing to expand upon and improve their speciality tea and coffee offering.
Website Caffè Culture Show

Cibus Global Forum is a two days international congress dedicated to networking and discussion between food industry professionals and institutions: Italian and international speakers will present their vision and together will outline the trends and the possible evolution of the italian food business.
Website Cibus Global Forum

Celebrating its tenth year, The Noosa International Food & Wine Festival has truly earned its place as Australia's premier food, wine and lifestyle event, hosting over two hundred of the world's most prominent chefs, winemakers, food personalities, media and foodies over a four day program. Festival-goers can interact with ten of the top 50 S.Pellegrino World's Best Restaurant chefs along with international and national stars of the culinary, wine and media world. Add a lifestyle exhibition, food trails, cooking demonstrations and concerts with Australia's hottest entertainers and you will understand why thousands of international and national visitors come together to taste, drink, watch, participate and sample the best of Australian and local produce. In 2013 the festival will unveil a stellar line-up for its birthday celebration with some spectacular surprises and culinary creativity set amongst the regions most magical and iconic settings. A 'don't miss' event, not only for food lovers but those who seek a great reason to relax, eat and be entertained.
Website Noosa Food & Wine Festival

The Firenze Gelato Festival is the event that brings together the best gelato makers and main companies in the field from Italy and abroad to promote the Florentine tradition of the cold cream invented in the Renaissance by multi-talented artist Bernardo Buontalenti. Gelato all'italiana is the main feature of the event that brings in the summer and attracts visitors from all over the world
Website Firenze Gelato Festival

RAW is a two-day celebration of some of the best wine talent in the world. Featuring over 150 growers, RAW is one of the most exciting collections of fine, natural wine artisans ever to come together in the capital. Their wines are pure, kind to the planet, very possibly better for your health and best of all they're absolutely delicious.
Website RAW - Artisan Wine fair

In its role as the nation's platform on animal production and meat processing, VIV Russia showcases the industry's developments by the Feed to Meat concept. Feed to meat brings together supply and demand within the complete animal protein chain. The driver behind the chain concept is that animal feed and animal health are vital for meat quality and safety. VIV Russia will represent every step in the meat production process. Related topics will be featured in the VIV Russia Conference
Website VIV Russia

Bigger and better than ever, NBA Beef Expo 2013 with new branding is returning to Malvern for two days of exciting activity focusing on the theme, "A Festival of British Beef". The first day will see three farm tours in the west Herefordshire area, followed by the annual Beef Expo Industry Dinner. Thursday 23rd May, will provide the ideal forum for producers to learn all about your products and technical developments in the industry. Visitors can access the latest information and advice on production techniques with the trade stand area set between the National Spring Spectacular Show of cattle and the Beef Breed Society trade stand/demonstrations of cattle. This should help with a natural flow of visitors around the whole event. The overarching theme of efficient and profitable beef farming will also add to this high profile technical event.
Website Beef Expo

Following on from the overwhelming success of the inaugural Melbourne International Coffee Expo, the 2013 show is set to be the most remarkable event the Australasian coffee industry has ever seen. MICE2013 will bring together the World Barista Championship, the World Brewers Cup, the inaugural Global Coffee Review Symposium and Australia's largest dedicated-coffee trade show, for a once in a lifetime event. In hosting the World Barista Championships and World Brewers Cup, the MICE2013 will be the culmination of decades of hard work that have seen the Australasian industry develop what is now being recognised as one of the strongest specialty coffee scenes in the world.
Over four days, in addition to hosting the most high profile coffee competitions in the world, MICE2013 will continue to build upon the features that made the inaugural event such a success bringing together the region's industry leaders to educate, inform and do business.
The four day expo also provides an opportunity for an unprecedented line-up of satellite events in and around Melbourne, including roasting workshops, café tours, and endless networking opportunities to meet and greet the world's top coffee industry personalities and decision-makers.
Website Melbourne International Coffee Expo

Experience the joie de vivre and the all new look and feel of Prince Edward Island's New Festival of Wines at the Charlottetown Civic Centre. The New Festival of Wines has been redesigned to "wine and dine" you with new and local flavours from the moment you walk through the door. Over 200 limited quantity wines from around the world will be available to be explored, including this year's featured country- France, recognized as one of the world's oldest and largest wine producing regions. New this year are cheese stations from Cows Creamery and Dairy Farmers of Canada featuring varieties of cheeses to complement your wine selections.
More than just a wine tasting, this event encourages guests to immerse themselves in fine local flavours. The Friday Grand Tasting will be presented by Red Shores Racetrack and Casino and will feature appetizer style food stations created by Chef Andrew Smith. Saturday's Grand Tasting, presented by Redwater Rustic Grille, features the culinary talents of Chef Jane Crawford. Wine and cheese seminars will be offered on Saturday afternoon by the Dairy Farmers of Canada & Rossignol Winery to help you perfect the art of wine and cheese pairing.
Website The New Festival of Wines

Roscommon Lamb Festival started in 2008 organized by a committee of local farmers, restaurant owners and community groups. The vision for the festival was to "highlight the quality of locally-produced food and to attract additional tourists to Roscommon thus boosting the local economy and benefitting primary producers and suppliers". This is still the case with the added vision of creating an internationally recognised festival in the Northwest of Ireland and an annual celebration for the people of Roscommon and its visitors. Based on the fact that Roscommon has the highest lamb output in the country, the festival celebrates lamb in a diverse range of food and farming events over the course of the weekend. We are organising this event to increase awareness of the festival, promote lamb as a dish and generate business for participating establishments in all sectors. Roscommon Lamb Festival 2013 is in it's sixth year - celebrating all aspects of County Roscommon's food, farming, heritage, craft and most importantly - family, in a range of events designed to suit everyone's tastes.
Website Roscommon Lamb Festival

The 2013 Só Sligo Food and Culture Festival programme brings together Sligo's unique gastro tourism offering into a dynamic and very engaging festival tourism package:Drawing from Sligo's literary, heritage and cultural strengths to link a unique food experience to same through food trails and explorations of food heritage. A strong coastal influence bringing together Sligo's surf culture and foods, fruits of the sea (seaweed) and angling products. In 2010, the Inaugural World Irish Stew Championships attracted widespread media interest and entries at national and international level and were very much a highlight of the festival. In 2013, the competition is being expanded with professional and student heats taking place in venues abroad. There will be Amateur, Professional and Student Chef Cookery Completions including Sligo Signature Dish, Sligo Mystery Basket, the Connacht Gold Junior Chef and the Great Family Cook off competitions! A balanced city and county programme offering food explorations, learning new skills, meet the producers.
A strong emphasis on the family and affordability. Lots to do specifically for children and well promoted accommodation and meal packages across all levels of providers in the county.
Website Só Sligo Food and Culture Festival

Visitors will be able to discover the delights of the dram with tours and tastings at many of the area's 50+ distilleries (including exclusive access to distilleries usually closed to the public). There are plenty of opportunities to explore the outdoors against the beautiful backdrop of Speyside's spectacular scenery and uncover the spirited history of the region that was home to some of the first smugglers' stills. Festival-goers can join a Whisky and Wildlife Walk to the top of Ben Rinnes, Speyside's "Whisky Mountain", with the chance to spot mountain hares and ptarmigan on their ascent; or they can join in the ‘Wild About Scotland, Wild About Whisky' event at the Scottish Dolphin Centre on the mouth of the River Spey, where they can experience encounters with animals including Moray Firth dolphins, ospreys, otters, seals and more before sampling offerings from some of the best distilleries in the area. Alternatively whisky lovers can follow in the footsteps of the Speyside smugglers, uncovering the secrets of the smugglers' trail as they enjoy guided Landrover or amphibious Argocat tours.
Website Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival

Copenhagen Beer Celebration was arranged the first time in 2012. The goal was to gather the absolute best brewers around the world and simply celebrate them and their fantastic beers. The 2012 version was a huge success, where 2000 beer fanatics from all over the world gathered in Copenhagen to share their passion with equally minded fanatics. At first the CBC 2012 was intended to be a one time event, but due to the huge amount of positive feedback from both brewers and beer fanatics we decided to do it . Even though the goal and most of the concept is the same, the 2013 version will differ in some ways from the 2012. We gained a lot of experience in 2012 and therefore we have changed some of the conceptual practical stuff. The following is a description of the whole festival.
One of the main goals of Copenhagen Beer Celebration is to present beer in a gastronomic context. Last year we invited everybody for one big dinner hosted by Mielcke & Hurtigkarl - this year will be a bit different. We have invited 6 different chefs from 6 totally different restaurants to come and make their version of a dish that fits perfectly to beer. Every chef will have their own booth and will be open during the whole festival. This way you can choose yourself what you want to pare with your Bourbon BA Imperial Stout or Citra Single Hop IPA and when you want something to eat.
Sessions
CBC will take place the 3rd and 4th of May 2013. There will be three different 5 hour sessions during the Celebration.
• Yellow Session on Friday the 3rd, running from 15.00 to 20.00 (3.00 pm to 8.00 pm).
• Red Session on Saturday the 4th, 11.30 to 16.30 (11.30 am to 4.30 pm).
• Blue Session on Saturday the 4th, 18.00 to 23.00 (6.00 pm to 11.00 pm)
All brewers will bring 3 beers for each session and all beers will be different for each session. This means that each session practically is a new event. Participate in one session and you will have access to 90 of the best beers in the world. Participate in all 3 and you will have access to 270.
If you buy tickets for both early and late Saturday - we promise to keep you entertained in the break.
Tickets
At 3.33 CET+1 you log on to www.billetlugen.dk and buy your ticket for the session(s) you want to attend.
The ticket price is DDK 450/ EURO60/ USD 78 pr. session. Once you have your ticket, you don´t have to worry about tokens; all beers are yours for the taking. That saves you from fumbling around with plastic-thingies, glasses, papers, coins; you can just kick back and start tasting. The tickets also includes glass and entrance. This year food is not included in the ticket.
Website Copenhagen Beer Celebration

2013 is the 8th year of the Festival which takes place every May bank holiday weekend on the glorious Renvyle Peninsula in North Connemara. The celebrations as usual will include music, craic, mussel cooking competitions, walks, talks, theatre and children's activities. There will also be a country market, local art exhibition and mussel cooking competitions to name just a few of the events that will take place this May bank holiday weekend.
Website Connemara Mussel Festival

The Upper Hunter Wine and Food Affair, created by the Denman Chamber of Commerce, has become known as the Hunter Valley's "Best Street Party". Held each year on the 1st Saturday in May, Ogilvie Street transforms into a Wine and Food gourmet feast extravaganza. An incredible collection of street food, gourmet take home foods and the unique flavours of world renowned Upper Hunter wines. Fantastic free live bands, entertainment for the children, street theatre. The Hunter's Best Street Party.
Website Upper Hunter Wine and Food Affair

The small coastal town of Narooma loves celebrating its Sydney Rock Oysters that thrive in Wagonga Inlet's clear waters and other south coast estuaries, plus the region's fine food, arts and culture on the first weekend of May each year.
Website Narooma Oyster Festival

Wine and food lovers are invited to escape to Banff for the Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival at the Fairmont Banff Springs. Guests can look forward to a fantastic weekend indulging in delectable cuisine from Banff's most popular restaurants, as well as a wide selection of local and international wines, premium spirits, single malt and blended scotches, specialty liqueurs, and import and micro-brewed beer. The Grand Tasting Hall offers the unique opportunity to explore new products and menus, interact with experts, and savour tried and true favourites. Make it a gourmet getaway - take advantage of special hotel packages and participate in wine and food themed events held at Banff hotels and restaurants throughout the weekend.
Info Banff Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival

The Christchurch Food and Wine Festival was originally held as an event to celebrate the Millennium in 2000 and its success that year led the organisers to make it an annual event, now in its thirteenth year. The Festival was also developed as a community event which aimed to educate people in healthy eating as well as the availability of different foods, where to buy them and how to prepare them. Now seen as one of the best Food Festivals in the UK, it has attracted a number of celebrity chefs over the years. The celebrity chefs and many local chefs do cookery demonstrations during the first weekend of the Festival. An international food market also takes place over the first weekend. This is again a free event with live entertainment which has developed into a huge and popular attraction drawing thousands of people to a colourful and bustling town centre. The number of stalls in the market, which takes place in a pedestrianised High Street, has grown to more than 100 selling a wide variety of food and drink. Education has become an important part of the Festival. Each year a Kids' Kitchen is held during the weekend of the International Food Market to enable children to find out more about different sorts of food and to encourage healthy eating.
Website Christchurch Food and Wine Festival

Asia's most influential food & beverage industry event is back in its 10th milestone year. Organised by Koelnmesse, Department of International Trade Promotions and The Thai Chamber of Commerce, THAIFEX - World of Food Asia 2013 has grown in size and content, creating a whole new immersive and enriching experience for visitors and exhibitors. 2013 sees the fest growing in stature as it welcomes the official launch of World of Seafood, an official collaboration to crown the best coffee bean from Asia in the new Roasters‘ Choice Award, a supercharged Thailand Ultimate Chef Challenge, and distinguished international speakers at 3 exciting new conferences, World of Food Safety, Pack InnoTech and Cold Chain World. Held concurrently, the inaugural World of Seafood
comprises over 3,500 sqm nett space, with three new groups from China, Korea and Taiwan. Asia's most innovative processed, value-added and frozen seafood products, with brands such as Bonito Seafood, Hyacinthe Parm entier, Johnwest, Mareblu, Navire and Petit Ventuna Seafood are the highlights for this ‘must-attend' seafood sourcing platform. World of Food Asia is targeting to fill all three halls from Challenger 1 to 3 this year, totaling 60,000 square meters, an increase of 10% from 2012. For food importers, wholesalers, distributors and hotel and restaurant professionals from Asia, THAIFEX - World of Food Asia is the place to meet and do business, as it offers 1,200 exhibitors from 30 countries. The fest is expected to attract 27,000 trade visitors, a 10% increase over last year.
Website Thaifex World of Food Asia

With strawberries as the celebrated fruit, more than 50 food booths offer everything from strawberry pizza and strawberry nachos, to strawberry kabobs, chocolate dipped strawberries, strawberry funnel cake, strawberry flan, strawberry cotton candy, deep-fried strawberries, strawberry beer, margaritas and even more sinful delights. Savor a distinctively unique strawberry wine or an assortment of other wines at the conveniently located Wine Pavilions. Toast the fun with a commemorative glass to keep celebrating for years to come.
Website California Strawberry Festival

PLMA's 2013 "World of Private Label" International Trade Show will present more than 3,800 exhibit stands including 42 national and regional pavilions. Products on display will include fresh, frozen and refrigerated foods, dry grocery, and beverages as well as non-food categories, including cosmetics, health and beauty, household and kitchen, auto aftercare, garden, and housewares & DIY. PLMA's 2013 "World of Private Label" International Trade Show attract buyers from the world's supermarkets, hypermarkets, discounters, department stores, drugstores, wholesalers, importers and exporters.
Website PLMA's 2013 World of Private Label

Over the past 20 years the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience has raised more than $1 million for non-profit organizations right here in our community, while showcasing local food and chefs, and national and international wines. We invite you to raise a glass and be a part of the festivities as we make New Orleans a better place to live, work and play. This year in an effort to fight hunger and support culinary education, the 2013 beneficiaries will share 100% of the proceeds. Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana will receive 40% and the following will share the remaining 60%: the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation's ProStart Program, Delgado Culinary Arts School, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts' Culinary Program, the John Folse Culinary Institute and the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans.
Website New Orleans Wine & Food Experience

It's where the UK and international wine and spirits trade gather each year to meet, explore, taste and buy wines and spirits from right across the globe. Free to visit, but strictly trade only, the London International Wine Fair is perfect for retailers, importers, restaurateurs and sommeliers to explore, taste and discover wines to offer to their own customers. For many, the chance to learn, discover and try something new are key reasons for attending LIWF, and much of that is down to the wide range of seminars, tastings, debates, masterclasses and networking opportunities.
LIWF 2013 will once again host:
• Masterclasses - tastings with expoert tuition
• Seminars - everything from stats to trends
• Tastings - exhibitor on-stand tastings with the winemaker
• Debate - lively dicussion on today's key topics
• Awards - gold medal winner tastings with Decanter, IWC, IWSC
• The Conference - running on Wednesday 22nd
• Bordeaux - the 2010 vintage from 50 top Grands Crus Châteaux
• Not to mention 10,000 wines from our exhibitors!
Website London International Wine Fair

The World's Largest Brat Fest began 28 years ago by Tom Metcalfe. The sons and family of Tom continue the tradition and cele"brat"e every Memorial Day weekend. Come rain or shine, The World's Largest Brat Fest is held at Willow Island of the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI. We cele"brat"e the start of summer with juicy Johnsonville brats, Oscar Mayer Hot dogs and Veggie Brats smothered in Frank's Kraut; Heinz Ketchup, Mustard & Relish and onions, washed down with ice-cold Pepsi, Budweiser and Sassy Cow milk and finished off with a side of Chocolate Shoppe ice cream, funnel cakes and fun. Obviously, Brat Fest is about eating brats, but more importantly, it's about giving back to the community with proceeds benefiting the local charities that help staff the event
Website World's Largest Brat Fest

Memorial Day weekend in Burlington means three things, chocolate, chocolate, and you guessed it,chocolate! Every year the Burlington ChocolateFest brings a crowd of 35,000+ visitors to the area to experience a weekend of fun, games, rides, cooking demonstrations and of course chocolate.For over 25 years, this volunteer-run festival has pleased children and appetites, as it raisesmoney for over 65 local and national charities
Website ChocolateFest

BioBrazil Fair is a trade fair that gathers the main producers, processors, distributors and importers of the organic world. The partnership with BioFach, the world's largest organic trade show, will bring new business opportunities to the Brazilian market and stimulate professional updating and experience exchanges.
Website Bio Brazil Fair

Taste of Cincinnati USA is held every Memorial Day weekend in downtown Cincinnati by The Downtown Council and the Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Association. Started in 1979, it is now the nation's longest running culinary arts festival. Taste of Cincinnati USA features more than 40 fine restaurants serving up delicious and delectable menu items. In the weeks leading up to Taste each year, menu items are previewed and judged for prestigious Best of Taste Awards. Taste of Cincinnati USA is also a music festival, with continuous live entertainment featuring local and national recording stars performing on multiple stages throughout the event
Website Taste of Cincinnati USA

For nearly a century, the NRA Show has brought together the best and brightest in the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry for four days of discovery, sourcing, networking and entertainment. Produced by the National Restaurant Association, the NRA Show draws 58,000+ industry professionals from all 50 states and 100+ countries to Chicago each May-all seeking or showcasing the newest innovations and up-to-the-minute information about trends and issues.
As the international foodservice marketplace, the NRA Show provides unparalleled opportunity for buyers and sellers to come together, conduct business and learn from one another, igniting the future of businesses, relationships and ideas. Year after year, this hotbed of discovery and interactivity is a launching pad for more new innovation, products, services, creative ideas and other growth opportunities than any other industry event in the world. Exhibitors represent 900+ product categories, including:
• Beverage
• Equipment
• Food
• Furniture/décor
• Lodging
• Paper, plastics and supplies
• Services
• Tableware, Linens
• Technology and Entertainment
• Uniforms
In addition to finding the latest in cutting-edge foodservice products and services, attendees gain access to 70+ free education sessions, panel discussions and cooking demonstrations led by industry experts. These buyers represent operators, dealers, distributors and other decision-makers from 40+ foodservice segments and channels, including:
• Casual Dining
• Fine Dining
• Family Dining
• QSR/Fast Casual
• Retail
• Casino
• Cruise
• Multi-concept Operators
• University and School
• Military
• Non-commercial
• And more
Website NRA Show

SIAL China is the Asian food marketplace for all those involved in the food industry: retail, trade, manufacturing, hospitality professional and food services. Asia's leading annual professional F&B event with more than 2,200 exhibitors from 90 countries and 45,000 professional visitors. SIAL CHINA 2013 promises exhibitors and visitors nothing less than a professional supreme quality b2b platform for Food & Beverage industry in Asia.
Website SIAL China

SIAL Canada (Salon International de l'Alimentation) is making its triumphant return to Toronto at the Direct Energy Centre. SIAL Canada is a professional food show that is a part of the international SIAL network, which is made up of five different shows on four continents (France, Canada, Argentina, China and the United Arab Emirates) with a total of 7,500 exhibitors and 220,000 visitors from more than 200 countries. The show is an exceptional platform to keep abreast of the market's business potential, while building bonds between professionals. Founded in 2001, it is a partnership between the Association des détaillants en alimentation du Québec (A.D.A.Q.), the Agri-Food Export Group Quebec-Canada and Eposium. Giving you the platform you need to expand your business and international contests to point out the quality of your products:
*Coffee Cup by Sial 30 April 30th: The leading international coffee contest.
*Olive d'Or by Sial April 30th : The leading olive oil contest in North America.
*La cuisine by Sial: A friendly corporate chef competition
*Sial Innovation: The global food trends & innovations observatory.
Website SIAL Canada

Thousands of people enjoy the beers, bangers, bread and other attractions which took place for the second year in the grounds of the historic Ludlow Castle. Not just beer, bread and bangers, you will find plenty of stalls featuring top quality food and drink from small producers up and down the Marches, the Welsh border country. Products that have been produced on a small scale by people who really care that their food and drink should taste good, and be produced with care for the environment. You won't find big brands or supermarkets here.
BEER FESTIVAL - organised by SIBA (The Society of Indepedent Brewers Association) takes place inside the 'Festival Pub'. 180+ different real ales on draught (bottles too) from independent breweries from Wales and the border counties. Each brewer's entry will be part of the SIBA Wales & West Competition.
Wesite Ludlow Spring Festival

Sugarasia is an exclusive and dedicated platform, related to Sugar & Downstream industry,enabling Equipment manufacturer, technology providers as well as input suppliers to showcase their products before a focused and targeted audience i.e. Sugar, Distillery ,Ethanol, Co-Generation and Cane farming experts from entire Asian region. A high end two day conference is also part of the show as it gives the latest information about the industries and technology. The speakers will deliver best of their work and on other hand companies will also be able to impart their technological knowledge. The conference will cover all the dimensions of the Sugar, Alcohol, Ethanol and Energy sector.
Website Sugar Asia

Located on the island of Nantucket, 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, we bring you this boutique experience of world class wines and food. Over the past 16 years the Nantucket Wine Festival has become one of the nation's most celebrated wine and food events. 

Website Nantucket Wine Festival
Events:
The Grand Tastings
Held under the tents at the WHITE ELEPHANT, The Grand Tastings feature wines from over 150 prestigious wineries from around the world. Local and regional artisan foods will be served throughout.
Harbor Gala
The Harbor Gala is the signature event of the Nantucket Wine Festival. Experience 40 stations of mouth watering dishes prepared by the best chefs in the country with selected wines from around the world. Interact with winemakers and chefs, and meet the masters and the creators behind the pairings.
Seminars
Choose from an outstanding selection of educational food and wine seminars, led by renowned winemakers and chefs from across the globe.
Restaurant Wine Events
In addition to Nantucket Wine Festival events, the restaurants of Nantucket host their own wine dinners and tastings throughout the weekend.

Each year the Newberry Watermelon Festival committee works hard to improve the festival and its activities. The watermelons are always provided from a local grower and given to the festival goers for free. Since 1946. Some of the favorite festival activities started many years ago and still continue today. These activities include contests for watermelon eating, seed spitting, hog calling, pie/cake baking, and of course the "Big Melon."
Website Newberry Watermelon Festival

The South Carolina Strawberry Festival is Fort Mill's signature salute to spring. The 2013 Festival will feature live entertainment at the Strawberry Jam; kids rides and activities; strawberry pie, ice cream and recipe contests; pig races; great food from local and regional vendors; arts and crafts; and a car show.
Website South Carolina Strawberry Festival

Over the last decade, the Pittsburgh Wine Festival has grown from a highly specialized event into one that welcomes guests with all levels of wine experience. Whether you are a novice wine drinker who is looking to expand your palate with hundreds of wineries to sample, or you are a serious collector looking to try, buy and cellar the best of this year's releases, our Festival is the only place to get it all. The 2013 event will feature over 165 vendors serving over 500 different wines, so some experienced attendees will come with a strategy. Others will not, but regardless of the plan of attack, everyone enjoys a diverse selection
Website Pittsburgh Wine Festival

Crawfish prepared in every imaginable way, fried, boiled, in an étouffée, bisque, boudin, pie or jambalaya, and crawdogs, along with other Cajun favorites: shrimp, crab, gumbo, red beans and rice, just to name a few
Website Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival

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Long Grove invites you to enjoy the annual Long Grove Chocolate Fest, held on the first weekend of May. You and your family can fill a day - or a weekend - with chocolaty treats, live music, great food and distinctive shopping in charming Long Grove. Enjoy chocolate demonstrations and workshops, wine parings, live music all over town and plenty of children's activities. Besides exceptional dining at our various village restaurants, other favorite foods will be available at dozens of outdoor tents, ranging from delicious sandwiches to smoothies.
Info Long Grove Chocolate Fest

AHA Big Brew is a celebration of National Homebrew Day (May 7). Each year homebrewers around the world invite family and friends to their brewing site on the first Saturday in May to celebrate the holiday. Everyone is encouraged to help out with the brew, enjoy the fun and join in on a world-wide toast at noon CDT.
Info Big Brew for National Homebrew Day

There are onions. And then there are Maui Onions. Believed by many to be the sweetest onions in the whole wide world, these glorious bulbs are the star of this annual festival. The Maui Onion Festival has been a signature event at Whalers Village since 1990. It's dedicated to the cultivation and promotion of the world-famous Maui Kula Onion and is attended by thousands of visitors and residents every year
Website Maui Onion Festival

Great food and drink, live music, entertainment and all in fabulous a Yorkshire Dales setting. There will be a good selection of stalls serving a variety of take-away foods, including vegetarian options. All these stands are encouraged to use local produce, several of them are members of the Northern Dales Farmers' Market and producers of the produce they are selling. There will be over 30 beers offering different styles, tastes, colour and strengths. There will be at least 8 different Yorkshire made ciders
Website The Dales Festival of Food and Drink

Oil China dates back to 2005. Since then, Oil China has been held 8 times. As the only professional international exhibition of olive oil and edible oil, Oil China has ever been fully supported by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the Ministry of Agriculture, Foreign Trade Bureau of Spain (ICEX), Hellenic Foreign Trade Board (HEPO), Portuguese olive oil association, the embassies of Spain, Greece, Italy, Tunis, Jordan, and other associations and so on. Oil China has become an international exhibition of edible oil with the largest scale and number of oil varieties. Renowned for attracting professional purchasers, distributors and audiences, Oil China has gained the attention of edible oil related corporations around the globe. It's an excellent platform for relevant parties to seek for products marketing and business cooperation.
Website Oil China

Wine China Expo takes you to the political, economic and cultural heartbeat of China. The wine market in this Northern region is seeing an annual double-digit growth rate. High income local Chinese are eager to buy premium wines to display their wealth while the young, affluent and fashionable view wine as a modern product and wine drinking as a sign of sophistication, contributing to the escalating growth of wine buying. Marketing wine as a modern and high-end product would be the key to establishing a foothold in this market of high growth potential.
Website Wine China Expo

Once a year, Historic Beaufort, NC explodes with flavor as the Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend welcomes celebrity chefs, winemakers and sommeliers to share their talents and expertise with the Crystal Coast. This year, the 9th annual Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend will showcase award-winning labels from select wineries and winemakers and irresistible food from local and regional celebrity chefs. This charitable event combines the public's appreciation for wine & food with its drive to support worthy local organizations, and has positioned itself as one of the area's premier tourism events.
Website Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend

The Festival of Chocolate is the Premiere Chocolate Tasting Event in Florida. Chocolate lovers will enjoy decadent delights from Florida's Best chocolate and confection companies. Truffles, candies, cupcakes, brownies, cookies, pastries, molds and melting chocolates.. even chocolate spa treatments. Watch demonstrations by award-winning pastry chefs, walk through a chocolate-themed museum, and let the kids get creative in their own chocolate craft area. Sit up close as chocolate experts and celebrities judge the best chocolate indulgences in Florida.
Info The Festival of Chocolate

Petaluma's Butter & Eggs Parade and Celebration is in its 32nd year,and has become a tradition in Downtown Petaluma, celebrating the region's rich agricultural history as one of the premier dairy regions in the country. Together with The Petaluma River, eggs and dairy products created an economy that turned Petaluma into one of the most prosperous communities in the state in the early 1900's. The event typically draws over 25,000 attendees. The community parade showcases the best of Petaluma and Petaluma's history. The 100-unit parade features over 3,000 participants, more than a hundred volunteers and supports every aspect of community life. Activities before, during and after the parade include four blocks of exhibit space for arts and crafts exhibitors, food vendors offering a wide variety of festival foods, sponsor booths, community and non-profit booths and a large area to entertain youngsters with inflatables, rides, and hands-on activities. Don't miss this great opportunity to participate in one of the North Bay's largest events.
Website Petaluma Butter & Egg Day

For the twelfth year in a row, the town of Celebration, Florida will become the Pie Capital of the World when thousands of pie lovers, tasters and bakers gather together the Great American Pie Festival. The highlight, as always, will be the Never-Ending Pie Buffet, featuring award-winning pie, ice cream, toppings and beverages. This year, pie lovers from across the country will be treated to sweet offerings by Bakers Square Restaurants and Pies, Bonert's Slice of Pie, J. Horner's Desserts, Kroger's Private Selection, Publix Super Markets, Inc., Rocky Mountain Pies, Tippin's Pies, Smucker's Toppings, Village Inn and Wick's Pies. Thousands can make their own pies at the Pie Creation Station. There will be pie decorating, pie art, chef hat decorating and many more pie activities to enjoy. The Pietopia Demonstration Stage sponsored by Village Inn and Bakers Square Restaurants features entertainment and baking demonstration by chefs from across the country. Of course, no pie festival would be complete without a Pie Eating Contest
Website Great American Pie Festival

Hosted by New York magazine and the International Culinary Center, the New York Culinary Experience offers you the chance to cook side-by-side with some of the world's most renowned chefs. You'll take part in intimate, interactive cooking classes with acclaimed chefs, restaurateurs and industry insiders, with past chefs including David Bouley, Jacques Pépin, Jean Georges Vongerichten, and more. Taking place in the International Culinary Center's state of the art kitchens, you'll prepare-then enjoy-dishes under the direction of these culinary giants, participate in Q&A sessions with industry leaders, and at the close of each day, attend a private reception for NYCE students and chefs. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, and you are welcome to bring home the dishes you create during the day. If you don't have a lot of experience in the kitchen, don't worry. All you need is a desire to learn from and interact with the best in the business. You'll also have the opportunity to support The Future Chefs Scholarship Fund, created to enable aspiring chefs to attend a culinary institute.
Website New York Culinary Experience

Every year thousands of restaurant and foodservice industry professionals attend the Northwest Foodservice Show, an event that annually delivers - and promises for 2013 - two days of action-packed opportunities: chef demonstrations, seminars, Tasting Pavilion, new products and more. This year's show, presented by Liberty Mutual, truly is "The Place To Be" to experience all this plus make those ever-important business-driving connections.
The 2013 Northwest Foodservice Show features:
• More than 450 vendor booths
• Educational Seminars (included with registration)
• Chef Demonstrations with explosive local talent
• New Products Showcase
• Tasting Pavilion featuring local craft beverages
• Daily Deals to save you money
Website Northwest Foodservice Show

5 days of fantastic food and free, family-friendly events on the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend, showcasing the best that Galway has to offer. Featuring over 100 individual events.
This year's festival include an extended food village on the banks of the Corrib, open-air markets, restaurant trails, cookery demonstrations, food tours to local artisan producers, foraging trips, food talks, tastings, wine and beer workshops, a meet the producers forum, lots of local produce, kids activities and family fun days. The 2013 festival will explore the international diversity and global character of Galway food and celebrate the Galway Food Diaspora. Over 75 restaurants, food outlets and food producers will participate and most events will again be free-admission, all will be family friendly and many will have a strong 'Galway' flavour.
Website Galway Food Festival

The Barossa Vintage Festival is the largest and longest running wine tourism festival in Australia. The first Festival was held in 1947 and was celebrated with the Festival Ball which continues to be a signature event. The Barossa Vintage Festival celebrates the blend of Barossa - the wine, the food, the people and their stories. The 2013 Barossa Vintage Festival Program includes more than 150 events including art and craft, music, literature, heritage and of course, food and wine.
Website Barossa Vintage Festival

This year's event will seek to top that record, showcasing a sequence of wine or spirits with food pairings, each bound to delight, educate and entertain guests and their palates. The highlights of the evening are tastings from nearly 50 of South Florida's leading restaurants, and a vast array of wines and spirits from around the world, courtesy of beverage sponsor Southern Wine and Spirits. There will also be an assortment of craft beers to taste. Visitors will also have an opportunity to bid on some amazing silent auction prizes. Each guest will receive a complimentary Reidel wine glass.
The evening will start off with an exclusive VIP Martini Reception from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. VIP guests will enjoy a champagne tasting with "Champagne Wayne." The VIP evening concludes with exclusive access to the ultra chic Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort VIP Lounge to eat, drink and dance under the stars from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Website Wine, Spirits and Culinary Celebration

The 2013 event will be an amazing experience in taste and sound including amazing music to compliment savory brews. Over 90 different breweries from around the corner and across the country will showcase their unique libations. The focus of The Atlantic City Beer Festival is the promotion of craft beers and the brewers that create them. This event is the perfect opportunity for beer aficionados, beer lovers and the casual beer drinker to speak to company representatives and brewers responsible for some of their favorite brews. And it's an opportunity to discover and taste new brews and special "limited release" beers and ales.
Each year the festival organizers review the event and look to further enhance the beer lover's experience and make each year better than the last. Now in its 8th year, the festival has grown to be one of the country's largest celebrations of beer. For 2013 festival producers will bring in musical headliners Reverend Horton Heat and Rusted Root and a top secrect act, to be annouced November 19th, to further highlight each session. Already one of Atlantic City's most anticipated events of the year, the 2013 festival will have the perfect soundtrack to enjoy great brews, great tunes and thousands of great people! All bands and performers will be featured on the event web site under sounds. The 2013 Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival will also feature culinary demonstrations from area chefs; beer seminars hosted by beer personalities and brewers and some "off the wall" activities. Additional festival vendors will offer great food and some unique beer-related apparel and goods. This year's festival will appeal to absolutely everyone.
Website Atlantic City Beer and Music Festival

California is a State that is rich in exquisite beauty and viniculture abundance, with a tradition of world-class wine making and innovation. Wine lovers from all over will converge in San Diego for a truly unique celebration of California's finest wines and wineries at the VinDiego Wine and Food Festival on the beautiful San Diego Bay. VinDiego will indeed become the premier showcase for the finest wines California vintners have to offer. VinDiego will delight anyone eager to taste and enjoy hundreds of wines from California's best and brightest winemakers, as well as feature the finest food artisans from across San Diego's broad culinary spectrum. Vintners and culinary artisans from some of California's most renowned wineries, bakeries and restaurants will be on hand to share their knowledge, skills and enthusiasm.
Website VinDiego

Each year the Florida Film Festival premieres the best in current, independent, and international cinema. Now in our 22nd year, we invite movie lovers to discover the world waiting for them in the dark. This year's Festival features more than 160 cutting-edge films, some 100 visiting filmmakers and special guests, and special events you'll never forget. Local culinary geniuses prepare "Eye Opening" bites to delight your appetite and intrigue your mind. Hang out while Eden Bar serves up tasty handmade cocktails all night long. Participating restaurants include Eden Bar, K Restaurant & Wine Bar, Ethos Vegan Kitchen, Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, and more.Food will be served 8:30-11:30PM. Drinks will be available all night
Website Florida Film Festival

The Poteet Strawberry Festival is one of the oldest, most popular events in the state of Texas. It is recognized as the largest agricultural festival in the state as well as one of the most exciting, dynamic festivals in the Greater Southwest. Held annually in April, the festival has fourteen areas of continuous entertainment featuring concerts with nationally known Country Western and Tejano stars, gunslingers, clowns, puppets, regional bands, various contests, and rodeo performances. There is something for the whole family.
Website Poteet Strawberry Festival

The Largest Business Platform for the Food and Drinks, Distribution and Hospitality Sectors in Portugal.
The main aim of holding Alimentaria Lisboa and Horexpo together is to generate greater value for both exhibitors and visitors. The two trade shows are the most successful and influential in their respective markets in Portugal. This project gathers both the supply and demand sides of the food and drinks industry, hospitality and distribution together under the same roof. However, each show, Alimentaria, Horexpo and Tecnoalimentaria, will retain its own personality and reinforce the ideal structure for its supply side in order to facilitate the making of contacts and business deals. This comprehensive range of offerings will enable participating companies to gain access to a larger number of sectors on the demand side, in short, to more customers. The scope of potential buyers will be expanded, encompassing professionals from the food and drinks industry, modern and traditional distribution channels, specialty shops, restaurants, hotels, and more.
In addition, professional visitors will have the opportunity to gain access to a space which brings together the largest and most complete selection required by the food and restaurant industry. This is a space which can meet every need.
Website Alimentaria & Horexpo Lisbon

St. Croix Premier Food & Wine Event Series that showcases the best of St. Croix hospitality paired with fabulous visiting celebrity chefs and vintners. Takes place in April each year. Fund raising programs for the St. Croix Foundation and other non-profit organizations that positively impact the community.
Website St. Croix Food & Wine Experience

In 2013 the Scottsdale Culinary Festival, the longest running event of its type in the nation, celebratesits 35th anniversary. The Festival has grown to a community favorite hosting 35,000 guests, 20 events, over 100 restaurants, dozens of top chefs and countless fine wine and spirit selections.
The week-long festival offers a diverse menu of luxurious dinners, themed cocktail parties and our signature event, the Great Arizona Picnic featuring 50 restaurants, chef demonstrations, live local bands and specialty tasting venues. The festival is the primary fundraiser for the Scottsdale League for the Arts and its members who work all year to present the festival.
Website Scottsdale Culinary Festival

The fourth annual, Galveston Island Food & Wine Festival 2013: Wines from Around the World, officially begins April 18th. Pour into bliss this April and join us for a special springtime event that transforms Galveston Island's Uptown Entertainment District into a food and wine lover's paradise. With specialty food items, culinary events, sophisticated parties, and live musical entertainment, it is sure to be the event of the year. Enjoy wines from around the world paired with delicious local foods, and learn first-rate tips from popular chefs and renowned winemakers.
Website Galveston Island Food & Wine Festival

This family-friendly event, presented by Gateway Subaru, is the largest Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) Festival on the East Coast having hosted 142 BBQ competitor teams and 35,000+ attendees in recent years. Competing teams will spend the weekend slicing, seasoning and sizzling pork, chicken and beef in hopes of earning a portion of the cash prizes and bragging rights on the KCBS BBQ Circuit. KCBS certified judges will have the difficult (yet delicious) job of selecting the best plates in several categories including whole hog, beef, chicken, pork, ribs, anything butt and special seafood and dessert categories. All competition elements must be cooked over a wood fire - no charcoal or gas allowed.
The festival surrounding the competition features three days of entertainment and fun for the whole family for only $2 per person and kids under the age of 12 are admitted for free. All weekend, attendees can enjoy live entertainment and peruse a variety of goods from craft vendors. Kids will love the amusement park rides while adults can try their luck on the mechanical bull. And of course, there will be no shortage of delicious food. Enjoy pulled pork sandwiches, beef BBQ sandwiches and ribs - some cooked by competing teams themselves - and other tasty festival-style foods all weekend! A wide selection of beer and wine will also be available, including wine from Maryland's Boordy Vineyards.
The festival will also feature a variety of special events including the Mountaire Chickin' Pickin' Contest, the Third Annual Cornhole Tournament, the Fourth Annual Backyard BBQ Amateur Competition and the Maryland State BBQ Wing Competition. Festival attendees will have an opportunity to become the judges by casting their vote for the "People's Choice Award" for best BBQ wings.
Website Pork In The Park Bbq Festival

The American Fine Wine Competition is the world's largest and most prestigious invitational devoted solely to fine wines produced in the United States. The AFWC Gala is "The Wine Event of the Year". Taste over 600 of the finest wines made in the United States while enjoying world class food, entertainment, auctions, and ambience. Since 2007 AFWC has raised more than $500,000 for local charities and helped brand both local businesses through sponsorship and many small boutique wineries in the US through events.

Website American Fine Wine Competition & Gala

The Big Nosh is the second annual event to celebrate "everything Jewish" including food, entertainment and education. Of course there will be mouth-watering Jewish foods to eat in or take out ranging from bagels, deli offerings, chicken soup (Jewish penicillin), stuffed cabbage, brisket, baked goods and other highly sought after delectable delights to nosh on.
Website The Big Nosh

The World Gourmet Summit celebrates its 17th anniversary in 2013. The World Gourmet Summit is an annual epicurean festival that showcases the intricate craftsmanship of prestigious chefs; it is also an exposition of internationally acclaimed vintners. Encompassing a series of dazzling events like the vintner dinners and celebrity dinners, it is a gourmet spectacular specially crafted for discerning individuals who appreciate fine wines and gourmet cuisine
Info World Gourmet Summit

The official start of the UK's eight-week asparagus season launches with the Great British Asparagus Run. It celebrates the first-cut round of asparagus with all the pomp and ceremony you'd expect on Saint George's Day. The Run traditionally begins at the National Trust's only pub - the Vale of Evesham's Fleece Inn. Following a morning of festivities, the newly-harvested spears are escorted by a fleet of Morgan Cars to destinations such as Parliament and Buckingham Palace.
Following the Run, Worcestershire goes asparagus crazy throughout May and June. Scores of pubs and restaurants serve asparagus-themed menus whilst shops sell an array of asparagus products ranging from sausages, jam, ice cream and even soap.  Visitors to the county can hop on an Asparabus for a tour of the local growers to learn more about the venerated vegetable as well as enjoy cookery demonstrations and tastings.
Bigger and better than ever, 2013 features Asparafest - the horticultural answer to The Big Chill combining great music, food, drink and fun within a festival setting. The celebrations culminate at the end of May over the Bank Holiday weekend with the Bretforton Silver Band Asparagus Auction. The celebrations have been recognised as one of the UK's most eccentric with appearances by Gus the Asparagus Man, fortune telling by asparamancer Jemima Packington and the crowning of the King of Asparagus.
Website The British Asparagus Festival

The UK's only dedicated trade show for the natural products, health food and organic industries. Discover delicious, authentic food from all the biggest natural and organic food and drink brands plus hundreds of dynamic start ups and speciality artisan producers.
Website Natural & Organic Products Europe

Halal Expo is the yearly rendez-vous for actors in the economy, certification and consumer associations as well as official delegations. Meet at a unique event all the traditional chains, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, restaurant and Hotel trade, specialised shops.
The Halal market is based on the respect of Islamic principles such as morality or ethic. Halal
expo makes a point of respecting the Halal market. It applies a policy of transparency with regard to its exhibitors' certification and comforts its Halal positioning with respect to the profession.
Therefore, exhibitors must supply the appropriate Halal certification for all products before the show.
Website Halal Expo

MDD EXPO will be a true exchange platform where supply meets demand. It brings together expertise from the food and non-food product industries. This unique exhibition in France for private label distribution is the industry benchmark event.
As it has been designed to suit the budgets of small and medium sized companies, MDD EXPO brings together a comprehensive and representative range from the private label market. Thanks to its size, your B to B meeting is ensured optimal visibility and immediate profitability.
The private label showcase
• Over 700 exhibitors,
• Products meeting specific requirements,
• 6 complementary sectors
• 25 countries represented
The place to be
• 7100 professional visitors,
• All distribution channels are represented,
• + 16% of visitors in 2012,
• 90% of visitors are decision makers
Website MDD EXPO

Wine & Gourmet JAPAN is the only dedicated food networking business platform in Japan with the cross segments of visitors to our partner events. With this unique quality, we have an extended pool of buyers from wine & gourmet food importers, retailers, wholesalers, trading companies to hotel and restaurant industries
Website Wine & Gourmet Japan

In its third decade, the Taste of Vail is the nation's premier spring food and wine festival, held at several venues throughout North America's most popular mountain resort. During this year's annual, three-day as many as 5,000 people are expected to taste the Vail Valley lifestyle, showcasing world-famous Vail Village and set against dramatic Colorado Mountain High vistas. Participants at the Taste of Vail experience offerings from the Vail Valley's world-class restaurants, fine wine poured by winemakers and winery owners from renowned wineries throughout the world, interactive cooking seminars, the 8th Annual Colorado Lamb Cook-Off & Apres Ski Tasting, the popular Mountaintop Picnic sensory extravaganza at the top of Vail Mountain, the famous Grand Tasting auction and other exciting events.
Website Taste of Vail

Come sample Kenilworth's award winning gourmet cheeses, yogurts and ice creams at the Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival. Spend the day tasting the unique range of the Mary Valley's finest foods, liqueurs and wines. A farm to fork feast! Pick up some tips on cooking with bush tucker foods and how to grow them. Try your hand at Queensland's only Cheese Rolling Contest. For the kids a fantastic Cheester egg hunt. Rediscover the simple pleasure of a day in the country in the bush behind the beach. The whole family will enjoy celebrating Easter Saturday in Kenilworth, the heart of the Mary Valley.
Website Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival

Pebble Beach Food & Wine is the premier epicurean lifestyle event on the West Coast, matching 250 acclaimed wineries and 75 celebrity chefs to create a hedonistic four-day destination on one of the most picturesque strips of coastline in the world. Throughout the weekend you'll enjoy intimate access to the pinnacle of culinary and wine talent at wine tastings, cooking demos, and some of the most exclusive, unique dining opportunities available in the world.
Website Pebble Beach Food & Wine

The Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival is a three-day outdoor festival with food vendors, live entertainment, educational exhibits, children's activities, arts and crafts fair, and much more. The festival is coordinated by 70 committee volunteers and over 500 weekend volunteers. Money from the festival goes to support art programs and activities in our community.
Website Alabama Chicken & Egg Festival

This festival is hosted to not only promote the strawberry farmers and the industry they have dedicated their lives to, but to give non-profit organizations from around the state the opportunity to raise money for their scholarships or organizations by selling delicious Southern food while demonstrating what the great city of Ponchatoula is all about: family, fun, food, entertainment, and most of all, downright Southern hospitality.
Website Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival

SNAXPO is the Snack Food Association's annual trade show devoted exclusively to the international snack food industry. SNAXPO showcases the latest equipment, technology, ingredients, products and services aimed at improving snack manufacturer's operations. An estimated 1,000 industry professionals from around the world are expected to attend Snaxpo 2013. The show attracts leading manufacturers and suppliers from all areas of the snack food industry. More than 150 exhibitors are expected to take up over 75,000 square feet of exhibit space. A variety of educational programs, timely speakers and special events are lined-up for SNAXPO
Website SNAXPO

Grape Day is a one day conference featuring in-depth seminars on the latest advances and developments in viticulture and vineyard management. Who should attend? Winemakers, Winery and Vineyard Owners and Managers and anyone who is interested in wine.
Info Grape Day

EuroGastro is the most important trade fair in Poland for the HoReCa sector featuring a complete offering for the gastronomic industry. For a few years the event has ranked first in Poland among the events with a similar profile in terms of a total number of visitors from Poland and abroad (Trade Fair in Poland Report 2007, the Polish Chamber of Exhibition Industry). EuroGastro has enjoyed growing interest on a per year basis from both exhibitors and visitors.
EuroGastro is not just a business meeting platform but also an opportunity to acquire expertise about the latest trends in the industry, and a place where products and services of leading manufacturers can be compared. EuroGastro hosts national and international competitions of confectionery, bartending and barista maestros.
The visitors, visiting EuroGastro, will have an excellent chance to compare products and services for gastronomic centers and hotels, learn about new market products and latest trends. EuroGastro offers spectacular competitions and cooking shows hosted by famous chefs which add to the event's unique nature. Also branch meetings and training session are popular among visitors as they constitute an excellent opportunity to improve professional qualifications.
Website EuroGastro

Mouth-watering cuisine, live auction, treasure chest drawing, cash bar, live entertainment, sample food stations from local restaurants, caterers and chefs. Bring your appetites and your friends After you have your fill of food and libations, sit back and take in the music and our fabulous live auction featuring generous culinary packages
Info Taste of Rockport

The Food & Wine Festival Palm Desert will gather the brightest and most inspired chefs from California for three extraordinary days of culinary and wine tasting under The Big White Tent on Larkspur between El Paseo and Shadow Mountain in Palm Desert. This event will be uniquely educational in focus, showcasing the Coachella Valley as a culinary destination.
Website Food & Wine Festival - Palm Desert

Join us at the festival for a great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Your admission buys you a sampling glass so you can enjoy an All-You-Care -To-Taste sampling of beer and bourbon. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and live music all day
Info Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival Timonium

More Than 50 KCBS TEAMS from around the U.S. will compete against each other and local teams for more than $12,000 in Cash & Prizes. This year's event will also feature 60+ local teams competing in the Backyard Boogie and the Lamar Outdoor Advertising Chicken Little Contest, making this event the largest BBQ event in the State of Louisiana or the 10th year in a row.
Website Smokin' Blues & BBQ Challenge

At the annual healthy vegetarian food festival you can:
• Taste free food samples, over 500 different kinds to try;
• See cooking demonstrations by chefs from all over the country;
• Hear the latest information on nutrition from our medical doctors;
• Receive free health checks, including cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose tests and even artery scans. Limited availability - first come first served.
• Join Vegetarians of Washington at Vegfest to receive a free deluxe tote bag filled with free food and coupons.
• Choose from a huge selection of books;
• Buy our latest book, Say No to Meat! The 411 on Ditching Meat and Going Veg; our updated guide book, Vegetarian Pacific Northwest; our new cookbook, The Veg-Feasting Cookbook, and The Vegetarian Solution, your answer to cancer, heart disease, global warming and more. Current and renewing members are able to buy these books at an extra special discount at any Vegetarians of Washington event. Visit our membership table at Vegfest to learn more.
Many people recognize the health and other benefits of vegetarian food choices, but they are not sure what to eat, what to buy and how to cook it. This festival provides all the support that people need, and it's fun too. With free health screenings, books and lots of food, there's something for everyone. There's even a special kids section where kids can learn about healthy food while having fun, with clowns, face painting and more.
Info Vegfest

This event is for the whole family to enjoy. Throw out the lawn chairs and picnic blankets and prepare to witness Chandler's largest and best BBQ event. Live entertainment, all ages Kid's Zone, Bike Show with the traditional backyard BBQ atmosphere, this is sure to be a finger licking good time
Website American BBQ & Beer Festival

Vinitaly is the event that more than any other has traced the evolution of the national and international wine system, helping to make wine one of the most captivating and dynamic realities in the primary sector. Four days of major events, meetings, tastings and targeted workshops to encourage contacts between exhibiting cellars and trade operators, together with an impressive convention programme discussing and analysing topics associated with supply and demand in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world.
Website Vinitaly

An upgraded formula and exhibition areas even more in line with the needs of participants: Sol&Agrifood merges the previous SOL and Agrifood Club events under a single brand. Sol&Agrifood, the International Exhibition of Quality Agro-Foods: a prestigious showcase that, also by being held alongside Vinitaly, promotes excellence in olive oil and agro-foods on a national and international scale.
Website Sol&Agrifood

Since 1998, Enolitech has been the international appointment with innovative technology applied to the wine and olive oil value chain. The International Exhibition of Wine-Growing and Cellar Techniques & Olive-Growing and Olive Oil Technologies is a valid opportunity for all companies in the sector seeking to promote the best of their production on the market, present and introduce new applications and technologies.
Website Enolitech

o Enjoy more than 40 wineries under one roof - rain or shine.
o Learn how to taste AND make wine.
o Sample gourmet olive oils.
o Watch cooking demonstrations.
o Relax on the "Cigar and Port" patio.
o Browse wine and grape themed vendors, included fabulous wine barrel furniture.
o Get an up close look at the latest grape growing and harvesting equipment.
o Nibble on tasty treats from some of the area's finest food purveyors.
o Enter to Win! The Ultimate Wine Basket of over 100 bottles of wine and other goodies (proceeds benefit the Lodi Grape Festival Bucks-for-Books Scholarship Fund).
o Beautiful commemorative wine glass.
o No driving from winery to winery ... it's all here for you!
Tickets are $30.00 in advance through March 21th (Day of show at the door $35.00.)
Tickets are on sale now by using the form below, and available March 1st at the Lodi Grape Festival office, Lodi Avenue Liquors, Lodi Wine Cellars, Raley's Camera Department, Van Ruiten Family Winery and cellardoor. There is a $3 processing fee for tickets ordered online or over the phone
Website Lodi Spring Wine Show

Savor Dallas is a celebration of wine, food, spirits and the arts featuring over 65 top chefs, hundreds of great wines, spirits and beers, and your chance to drink-in the arts.
Website Savor Dallas

Food and wine lovers in their hundreds and thousands each year indulge in more than 300 events that fill Melbourne's labyrinthine network of restaurants, laneways, lights-turned-down basements and dizzying rooftops as well as spilling into spectacular regional Victoria.
Website Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

The New York Wine Expo is a three-day exposition catering to both the general public and the trade in the nation's hub. Don't miss this opportunity to sample over 600 wines from over 200 winemakers from around the globe in the Grand Tasting.
Website New York Wine Expo

The Chocolate Lovers Festival features activities everyone can enjoy. Among the events planned each year are the Taste of Chocolate, featuring chocolate vendors selling their wares; the Chocolate Challenge, an arts extravaganza where the medium is chocolate; the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast featuring chocolate chip pancakes; historic re-enactments; children's activities; open houses at historic buildings; and much more. Some events require a fee, and other events are free to all visitors
Website Chocolate Lovers Festival

The international leading trade fair for the wine and spirits business. In a few weeks' time ProWein will open its doors and over 4,500 exhibitors from some 50 countries will present high-calibre wines and spirits to the expected 40,000 trade visitors from throughout the world
Website ProWein

The CRFA Show is the leading foodservice and hospitality event in Canada. A comprehensive forum of industry products, the CRFA Show attracts 12,000 industry professionals and puts them face to face with exhibitors showcasing all their latest products. From new trends in foodservice to the latest in energy efficient equipment, restaurant owners, operators and buyers will find everything they are looking for at this convenient, one-stop marketplace.
Website CRFA Show

For one night only, sample culinary creations from some of the best kitchens in Boston and get a taste of how delicious a night out in the South End can be. Attendees will enjoy bite-sized versions of dishes taken directly from the menus of their favorite restaurants, plus live cooking demonstrations, a silent auction and raffle, extensive wine tasting and beer sampling. Admission includes unlimited sampling from 45 of the South End's finest restaurants plus complimentary fine wine, cocktails and more.
Each year, Taste of the South End is the talk of the town, delivering a spectacular evening of food and wine tasting in support of a vital community organization.
"The Taste of the South End is Boston's premier food & wine event in our neighborhood and it brings together all of the South End chefs for the AIDS Action Committee. It is a fine way to both raise money for a wonderful organization that does vital work in our community and also have fun saying hello to friends, neighbors and colleagues. I would not miss this event for the world," said participating chef Gordon Hamersley.
Website Taste of the South End

The 38th International Food and Beverage Exhibition. The event is a platform for exhibitors and visiting buyers to meet and interact, offering key opportunities for dynamic discussions and business possibilities to enter Asian and global markets.
Website Foodex Japan

Taste of Sydney is Sydney's premier food festival attracting up to 25,000 visitors each year. Over 20 of Sydney's best restaurants will fashion special menus of starter sized dishes for the occasion, including signature dishes created by chefs to specially reflect their philosophy and showcase seasonal and premium ingredients in an unbeatable alfresco gourmet setting. Enjoy a feast for the senses with top chefs live in the Bertolli Taste Kitchen and pick up hints and tips at interactive Dilmah Chef's Skillery, in the Plumm Wine Theatre or learn how to become the perfect cocktail party host in the Sensology "Art of Cocktail Making' class. Plus over 100 producers provide a bounty of the best food and beverages, ensuring that you can sample and shop for a range of produce in the laid back atmosphere of a boutique food market while soaking up amazing live entertainment. With world class restaurants, chefs and produce, Taste of Sydney is a sumptuous, indulgent foodie day out.
Website Taste of Sydney

National Agriculture Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless other across America join together to recognize the contributions of agricolture
Website National Agriculture Day

This popular three-day annual event celebrates everything to do with cake decorating, chocolate and sugarcraft, welcoming creative cake lovers from all over the world to watch demonstrations, see amazing cake displays, buy the latest products and much more. Whether your passion is baking, making sugar flowers or simply decorating cookies with your children, there will be something for you at the show.
Website Squires Kitchen's 2013 Exhibition

If it looks like coffee, smells like coffee, goes well with coffee or is coffee you will find it at Coffee Fest. Everything under the sun that would be found in an upscale coffee shop on either side of the counter, including the counter would be found on the exhibition floor at Coffee Fest. The best coffee retail education, training and workshops are found at Coffee Fest.

Info Coffee Fest New York

The International Boston Seafood Show/Seafood Processing America is North America's largest seafood trade exposition. The exposition features approximately 1,000 exhibiting companies from over 40 countries. Exhibitors supply nearly every type of fish, seafood, and seafood-related product or service. Attend the International Boston Seafood Show/Seafood Processing America to find the following:
• Fresh fish and seafood
• Frozen fish and seafood
• Processed and packaged fish and seafood
• Processing and packaging equipment
• Freight forwarders and logistics services
• Seafood-industry service providers
Discover new products and latest trends to grow your business
• New Product Showcase: Find the newest seafood products available in North America
• Seafood Excellence Awards: Attend the awards ceremony to see this year's best new products
• Conference program: Learn about issues, new regulations, innovations, and trends from industry thought leaders
The International Boston Seafood Show/Seafood Processing America is co-located with the New England Food Show, the largest regional trade event serving buyers and suppliers in the foodservice and retail markets.
Website International Boston Seafood Show

Co-located with International Boston Seafood Show, the New England Food Show is the region's largest event focused on the retail and foodservice market - with more than 14,600 buyers and industry professionals in attendance. Sponsored by the Massachusetts Restaurant Association and supported by other New England restaurant, retail and specialty foods associations, this trade-event is a must for any business looking to grow or establish their presence in the New England market. Engage face-to-face with your current customers and start new relationships at the 2013 New England Food Show - the largest trade event focused on the retail and foodservice markets in New England.
Exhibitors at the 2013 New England Food Show engaged with more than 14,600 buyers and industry professionals representing every facet of the market, including multi and single unit restaurants, supermarkets, schools and universities, healthcare and government institutions.
Website New England Food Show

Trade exhibition for pubs, hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes making up the northern hospitality industry: Culinary Entertainment, Best of Fine Food, Grape, Grain & Bean, Liquor Theatre, NRB Bar
Website Northern Restaurant & Bar

The largest trade show and conference serving the pizza restaurant industry. With more than 6,000 attendees and 1,000 exhibitor booths, International Pizza Expo, held each March in Las Vegas, is where the industry meets to buy, sell and exchange vital information. Pizza Expo also features 80-plus seminars, cooking demonstrations and workshops, as well as the World Pizza Games and the International Pizza Challenge.
Website International Pizza Expo

Set amid the backdrop of the historic 69th Armory on Lexington Avenue, the famous building where the movement called Modern Art was first presented to the American public in 1913, including the just-completed Marcel Duchamp canvas, "Nude Descending a Staircase," guests will be invited to sample delicious cuisines that would otherwise require days of travel.
Featuring 50+ restaurants and food from over 35 nations, including Vietnamese, Italian, Uzbekistani, Brazilian, Cambodian, Russian, Tunisian, and Cajun/Creole among many others, Choice Eats stands out as a food event that highlights the hidden gems of New York City's diverse culinary landscape. Only guests ages 21 and over admitted
Website Choice Eats

More than 25 events, 4 days on the most beautiful beaches of Mexico and the best lineup of star chefs and producers of wines and liquors. The CRMFEST is an exclusive "boutique" gourmet festival that gives leaders in the field of gastronomy the opportunity to show the world their tendencies and innovative culinary talents.
The events are centered on the two most beautiful beach destinations of Mexico: Cancun and the Riviera Maya, and for the second consecutive year this event seeks to position itself as the best in Latin America which is why it will have the participation of the best chefs in the world.
Website Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival

This fun food festival event features: wine tastings, cooking classes, special menu presentations, brewery tours, tapas crawls, cook-offs, showdowns and throwdowns, dine-arounds and many more culinary delights. It's four days of foodie heaven and lots of fun activities on the Outer Banks. It involves over 50 restaurants. The OBX Grand Tasting on Sunday, March 17th, will be the hottest ticket in town with about 30 area restaurants and beverage vendors serving a sampling of original hand prepared foods, fine wines and beers from around the world. Restaurants will be competing for the 4th Annual TOB'y Awards; Best Booth Presentation, Best In Show, Best Outer Banks Catch, and the two top awards, the Chefs Award and People's Choice Award. The Outer Banks Taste of The Beach Weekend is a fantastic way to sample the fare of several fine restaurants on the Outer Banks in one fun-filled, food-centric weekend! Casual chefs to full-on foodie fanatics will revel in innovative culinary opportunities offered up by members of the Outer Banks Restaurant Association. You can indulge in a fancy wine dinner one night and mix with the masses in an organic farm to fork experience the next. Or maybe an intimate cooking class with one of the area's world class chefs is more your speed. Freshness is the hallmark of dining on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Offering much more than just seafood, the barrier islands are home to over 160 locally owned and operated restaurants. You'll be delighted by a diverse offering of culinary delights in unique settings, with menus dreamed up by the finest-trained chefs. Nothing beats locally caught seafood - you can taste the difference in ours. We have the finest Watermen in the world who bring in plump oysters, savory shrimp, fresh Gulfstream tuna, East Coast scallops, and many other fresh fish daily to our docks. Locally caught means it's the freshest it can be, it's affordable, and it's prepared by trained Chefs that know it well and prepare it often. Expect to enjoy the freshest seafood available when you dine on the Outer Banks.
Website Outer Banks Taste of The Beach

Join thousands of wine enthusiasts for a two-day mega tasting event. The Family Winemakers of California hosts its annual tasting featuring over 170 wineries for Southern California's most comprehensive tasting of California wines. This highly anticipated tasting showcases California's small, family-owned wineries. Once only open to members of the trade, attendees have the opportunity to meet the passion-driven vintners and winery owners behind the labels themselves, while tasting from upwards of 750 wines from the state's most acclaimed and up-and-coming wine regions. From exceptional, small production wines to the hard-to-find, attendees will explore the ever-increasing range of wine varietals and blends that today's California wineries are producing and discover new favorites to add to their collection.
Attendees with a refined palette for wine can also purchase access to the event's Reserve Area, where wineries will be pouring fine wines that retail at $75 or more. Tickets go on sale January 18. Ticket prices range from $45 - $100 Exhibit Hall, Del Mar Fairgrounds
Website Family Winemakers of California Tasting

The Festival is a celebration of excellence in food, wine and Charleston's renowned culture for the benefit of local charities.. The mission of the Charleston Wine + Food Festival, a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is to enhance Charleston's culinary reputation and support important charitable endeavors by focusing national attention on the entertainment, education and gastronomical gratification opportunities presented by world class culinary professionals and wine experts.
Website BB&T Charleston Food and Wine Festival

The 78th Annual Florida Strawberry Festival will be better than ever; so come on out and help us celebrate "Our Masterpiece of Fun" with some delicious strawberry shortcake and a day of fun and laughter with your family and friends. In addition to the 24 headline acts that will be featured on the Wish Farm Soundstage, the 78th Annual Festival will include a flavorful assortment of free-family oriented daily acts, over 80 thrilling rides on the Belle City Amusement Midway, nearly 400 vendors, exhibitors and food concessions and special days and discounts.The Festival has again teamed with Sweetbay Supermarkets to provide advance discount admission tickets at select locations starting in early 2013 and will remain on sale at the advance ticket price throughout the 11 day event.
Website Florida Strawberry Festival

Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Expo. Hundreds of extra virgin olive oil lables on show: Pdo cert., Pgi cert., organic, flavored, italian, foreign, light or intense. Confirmed olive oil producers on show from all Italian territories: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino Alto Adige, Umbria, Veneto as well as Slovenia and Croatia. A new and suggestive location for the 7th edition of Olio Capitale: for the first time, the Fair will take place in the renovated halls of Trieste's Stazione Marittima, in the center of the city, along the sea shore.
Website Olio Capitale

Out of the experience of SIA Guest and Sapore a new project has taken shape in Rimini Fiera RHEX Rimini Horeca Expo which, will bring together in a single format innovation, solutions and trends for the catering and hospitality world as a whole. Not the sum of two events, but an innovative trade-fair project, a precise answer to the international evolution of reference markets requiring greater concentration and aggregating appointments.
Innovation will not only be restricted to the products previewing at the show, but will above all be evident in the replacement of the sales showcase by numerous formats, where container, content and service innovation are seen as global solutions.
Website RHEX - Rimini Horeca Expo

The section of RHEX dedicated to beverages:
SELEZIONE BIRRA is a trendy area dedicated to special beers, niche products, and a wide variety of Italian and foreign craft beers, that cannot be found anywhere else. In Rimini it will be possible to take part in round tables, guided tasting sessions, contests, make contacts with the trade members, with the public venues owners and with the foodservice market.
BEVERAGE & CO. is the area dedicated to the entire beverage world from mineral waters to fruit juices, energy drinks, liquors, coffee and hot drinks. It will host new products, launch new trends or venue formats, contact ones´ own clients in particularly beverage wholesalers, who have always chosen Rimini as their meeting point, and the public venue owners
Info Selezione Birra - Beverage & Co

The section of RHEX dedicated to technical solutions for professional kitchens and table setting. Large kitchens and equipment for food service and hotel restaurants, as well as the entire range of tableware.
Info Cooking & Mise en place

The section of RHEX dedicated to Regional specialities, Pasta, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Wine:
COOKING PASTA
Expo and tasting arena focusing on handmade Pasta an important meeting point for producers, chefs and restaurant owners.
ORO GIALLO
A section for:
• spreading the culture of extra virgin olive oil
• highlighting new technologies
• guiding catering and food service trade members in product tasting and analysis
Awards for the prestigious Oro Giallo best Extra Virgin Olive Oil Contest are assigned during the show.
DIVINO LOUNGE
An expo section whose strong point is the meeting between wine and the catering(food service trade and proposes new methods of consumption for the Ho.Re.Ca market. It is held at the beginning of the year, an ideal period for previewing one´s company and products ond the national and international markets, thanks to the one-to-one scheduled appointments with the buyers.
Info Oro Giallo - Cooking Pasta - Divino Lounge

MSE - Mediterranean Seafood Exhibition, is the section of RHEX that has an established role as the only business-to-business appointment in the Mediterranean area featuring the entire seafood chain: from fresh to frozen produce and oven-ready dishes to preserved specialities, not to mention equipment and processing systems.
An extremely professional context with a high international profile, which involves major European trade associations and institutions in a series of side events with a purely technical-scientific and political-institutional slant, aimed at highlighting the Seafood & Processing entire seafood sector.
Info MSE

Join more than 60 exhibitors from around the globe as they pour samples of their finest coffees and teas and introduce you to new and award-winning products - the 2013 lineup will surpass all years past. This international extravaganza celebrating all things coffee and tea will offer two days of programs from well-known industry pros and pioneers, pairings, tastings, and more. The 25,000 sq. ft. exhibit hall will also feature some of the most delectable sweet and savory foods to compliment the spectacular collection of coffees and teas. Plus, the first 1,500 attendees to walk through the doors each day will be handed a free gift bag with samples from top brands to take home
Website Coffee & Tea Festival NYC

We have a varied and interesting programme of events planned including a Food Fair, Speciality Foods, Crafts, Music, Children's Activities, and of course Marmalade and more marmalade in the beautiful surroundings of Dalemain Mansion & Historic Gardens. For 2013 our focus will be to capture the natural mood of the Nation and we feel that is very much an austerity year. The future of this award is exciting because it not only sets a marker for a much loved preserve but it has the note of authenticy and honesty because it is not a commercialised competition. We have concentrated on well respected judges in all sorts of fields and it is an exciting two days in the slightly theatrical but glorious surroundings of the 18th century dining room at Dalemain. Heritage Marmalade - in times of great austerity, people find comfort from the good times, cooking with Mother and Granny. Dalemain represents 300 years of history, is iconic in that it has stood the test of time.
Website The World's Original Marmalade Awards & Festival

The Seattle Wine and Food Experience is the premier showcase for wine and food in the Northwest. Experience a world tour of wine, beer, spirits and all things culinary.
Featuring
• Wines from around the world
• Featured Wine Region: Oregon
• Washington Beef Bistro with Chateau Ste. Michelle
• Local and national beer/cider exhibit
• SIP Northwest Distillery Square
• Tim's Cascade Snacks Beer and Cider Exhibit
• Cooking with Stella Artois and Diane's Market Kitchen
• Chef in the Vineyard
• Fonté Coffee Bar
• Chef Prepared Gourmet Bites
• BevMo! Tasting Room
Website Seattle Wine and Food Experience

Canadaʼs premier wine show (formerly known as the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival). The Festival features 176 participating wineries over a week that sees 56 special events including the Bacchanalia Gala Dinner + Auction, wine seminars, wine minglers, winery dinners, and lunches and brunches at fine restaurants and hotels. In 2013 the Festival will mark its 35th anniversary of pairing wine, food and the performing arts, with a Theme Region of California Wines and a Global Focus of Chardonnay.
Website Vancouver International Wine Festival

The Mondial des cidres de glace is a unique event of its kind, in particular due to the distinctiveness of the product and the originality of the tasting experience-in the middle of February under a festive tent with sculpted ice bars. This is one of but a few winter tastings and the only one that brings together so many Quebec cider producers. It is a new and popular winter outing for the whole family, and it builds pride in the expertise of Quebec artisan producers. In only a matter of years, organization of the Mondial has earned an excellent reputation (the 2009 Présidente de Tourisme Montérégie award) and the event has strong prospects for development and a promising future. The fact that more than 20 agri-food producers participate in the event also lets people discover a number of Quebec products directly or indirectly connected to ice cider.
In addition to showcasing cider, the event includes food tastings, ice sculptures, fireworks, and other significant activities related to ice cider and organized with recognized partners.
Website Mondial des cidres de glace

The Delray Beach Garlic Fest strives to be the premier food and entertainment event in South Florida. The event is dedicated to exploring the numerous health and culinary possibilities of garlic. Countless recipes and unique dishes have been created by professional chefs in the Garlic Chef cooking competition and by our Gourmet Alley concessionaires including Garlic Ice Cream, Argentinian Garlic BBQ and Garlic Fest crab cakes . Now in its fourteenth year, the Delray Beach Garlic has become an institution in Palm Beach County and is affectionately named "The Best Stinkin' Party in Town."
Wesite Delray Beach Garlic Fest

The International Wine & Food Festival is pleased to announce exciting changes for 2013. In past years, our "grand tasting" format has provided guests the opportunity to taste a myriad of wines each afternoon over a two day weekend. This format showcased wineries from all over the globe as well as spirits, merchandise, edibles, travel and wine experiences. After twelve years of success with an average of 6,000 attendees each year, recent guest feedback has encouraged us to expand this year's Festival. With our increasingly knowledgeable consumer base, the 2013 Festival will be extended over several days and will include seminars, tastings, food pairings, dinners, and a signature event each evening. Our goal is to provide guests with multiple, focused opportunities to sample high quality food and wine, meet and greet winemakers, chefs and tastemakers, and continue our tradition of sharing the art, culture and fun of food and wine.
Website Washington DC International Wine & Food Festival

A delectable Valentine's Day weekend extravaganza for the chocoholic in all of us, which will benefit local and regional charities and non-profit organizations
Website Chocolate Lovers' Festival

Largest annual specialized exhibition in Russia and Eastern Europe. Promoting high-quality foodstuffs to the domestic market, the PRODEXPO trade show contributes to implementing high-priority federal projects aimed at improving the quality of life of the Russian citizens.
Website ProdExpo

The world's largest organic trade fair. BioFach has been enthusiastic about organically produced food for many years. This exhibition highlight offers you a variety of themes, perspectives and impulses for promoting the organic food industry worldwide. Meet the doers and thinkers and become part of the international organic family. All the organic food exhibited is certified to the EU Organic Regulation or the accreditation directives of IFOAM, the patron of BioFach.
Website BioFach

The Sandwich & Snack Show is the biggest European event federating fast food and food-on-the-go suppliers, where the trends are revealed.
Website Sandwich and Snack Show

Winefest Edmonton is back to spoil your senses. This all-inclusive event allows the opportunity to 'try before you buy' within a casually refined atmosphere - every sip and sample is included in the ticket price. At Winefest, wine experts are available to share their knowledge as consumers taste their way from booth to booth, providing tasting notes while educating the palate and senses. Stop by the on-site Liquor Depot store to purchase your favourite finds to enjoy at home. Savour a delicious selection of hors d'oeuvres in a relaxed, yet fun atmosphere. Also included in ticket prices is a Tasting Notebook and complimentary wine glass.
Website Winefest Edmonton

This event is like no other on the Oregon Coast. At no other Oregon Coast festival will you find all of these elements brought together in one place. Hence the name: Confluence.
Situated between Florence and Coos Bay on the southern end of the Central Coast, this event will take place in Reedsport at the Community Center 451 Winchester Avenue. Bands from the Washington, Portland, Eugene, Coos Bay, Reedsport and Bandon areas will perform various genres of music throughout the weekend. Oregon wineries and microbreweries will offer tasting's and sales of their premium wines and micro-brewed beer.
Website Wine, Beer, Seafood & Music Festival: Confluence

Brighter yellow, shapelier, richer in essential oils, acid and flavourMenton's lemons are prized and sought after for their unique taste and smell. They are currently in the process of getting Protected geographical indication that will authenticate their quality. Menton's lemons Festival, nature, culture and tradition all in one.
Website Lemon Festival in Menton - Fete du Citron a Menton

The Victoria Tea Festival is the largest public tea exhibition in North America and is hosted in the tea capital of Canada. Consumers and businesses alike can indulge in an interactive and educational tea experience exploring the traditions and trends of tea, while supporting a worthy cause. The weekend event features tea tastings, tea-food selections, complimentary presentations, and opportunities to purchase tea, tea-related products, and exquisite tea wares. A Silent Auction is also offered. It's a one stop shop for all things tea
Website Victoria Tea Festival

The Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, a non-profit organization founded by Meadowood Napa Valley, the Napa Valley Vintners trade association and The Culinary Institute of America, draws top wine book authors and editors, wine magazine writers and critics, newspaper wine columnists, bloggers and other editorial wine content creators to Napa Valley to speak, listen, debate, explore themes prevalent in contemporary wine writing and network with their peers for four days. A combination of lectures, panel discussions, group and individual writing sessions, wine tasting and fine dining make the symposium an unmatched career enrichment opportunity for editorial wine, wine-food, and wine-travel writers.
Website The Symposium for Professional Wine Writers

With a theme of BBQ Coast to Coast -Bold Flavors and Bright Ideas, the conference will feature educational seminars, restaurant tours, networking opportunities, barbecue all-stars and even a cooking competition
Website National Barbecue Association Conference and Trade Show

It's the premier seafood & wine event of the west coast and the original Northwest seafood and wine festival. Artists and Craftsmen showcase a variety of fine art, sculpture, photography, pottery, and jewelry. Pacific Northwest Wineries pour the finest of wines and culinary professionals serve cuisines of delectable delights to entice your palates.
Website Newport Seafood & Wine Festival

This show held at the height of the season, aims to bring together the world's best producers of Beer, Wine and Spirits. With the participation of Importers, Wholesalers, Distributors and Retailers that comprise the fabled Three-Tier Distribution system of alcoholic beverages in the United States, together with an enthusiastic and knowledgeable crowd of consumers, the event caters to both markets in a very exciting brand oriented environment. With an extensive array of wines and spirits from around the world, and South Florida's finest culinary delights; Miami Wine & Spirits Expo creates an experience like no other for visitors. Businesses are given the opportunity to showcase their brands; contact importers, distributors, retailers, and present their products directly to the public in a true Expo setting and not simply a fair or festival environment
Website Miami Wine & Spirits Expo

Now in its 6th year, the Virginia Wine Expo (VWE) has firmly established itself as the premier wine event in the Mid-Atlantic. Attendees from across the state and the country will converge at the Greater Richmond Convention Center and nearby venues to celebrate the stars of Virginia's wine industry. Featuring hundreds of bottles of fine Virginia wine from over 60 premier wineries, specialty food and wine and food pairing seminars, the VWE offers the best opportunity all year to learn about, taste and buy Virginia wine. Spectacular new events have been added to the schedule, such as the Preview Party at The Wine Loft, the Burger Blast, Saks Presents: In Good Taste - Hosted by Virginia Living, and Zest Fest, an extraordinary evening featuring 20 of the area's best chefs, Virginia wine, silent and live auctions and live music. The VWE benefits FeedMore, the umbrella organization of the Central Virginia Food Bank, Meals on Wheels Serving Central Virginia, and the Community Kitchen.
Website Virginia Wine Expo

Winefest Calgary is back to spoil your senses. This all-inclusive event allows the opportunity to 'try before you buy' within a casually refined atmosphere - every sip and sample is included in the ticket price. At Winefest, wine experts are available to share their knowledge as consumers taste their way from booth to booth, providing tasting notes while educating the palate and senses. Stop by the on-site Liquor Depot store to purchase your favourite finds to enjoy at home. Savour a delicious selection of hors d'oeuvres in a relaxed, yet fun atmosphere. Also included in ticket prices is a Tasting Notebook and complimentary wine glass.
Website Winefest Calgary

This international beer tasting event will feature an incredible variety of beers from some of the finest U.S. and international breweries while raising money for the Committee To Benefit The Children. This local Philly charity provides resources for the treatment and care of children with cancer, leukemia and serious blood disorders. 50+ International Brewers/100+ Beers. Be there to experience the flavors of award-winning breweries from countries across the globe - from highly acclaimed beers from Belgium, Germany and Japan, to great brews from the U.S.A.
Info International Great Beer Expo Philadelphia

The biggest names in international brewing will gather indoors on the concourse at the Belmont Park. Racetrack (2150 Hempstead Tpke. Elmont, NY 11003) for the fifth annual International Great Beer Expo. This international beer tasting extravaganza will showcase more than 50 breweries from across the globe, each providing samples of their country's proudest brewing achievement. Shoulder to shoulder with some of America's best breweries, including local Long Island favorites, will be amazing breweries from Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Austria, Nicaragua, Thailand, Poland, New Zealand, Indonesia, Sweden, China, and others. 50+ International Brewers/100+ Beers
Info International Great Beer Expo - Long Island

The "Main" Chocolate Festival features chocolatier vendors from North Carolina and as far away as Tennessee and Virginia, the festival provides lovers of mankind's best-loved dessert - chocolate! From chocolate diamonds and pearls, chocolate cakes and tortes to chocolate bars, truffles, fudge and sugar free chocolates, chocolate popcorn and ice cream, and even chocolate cookbooks and chocolate wine- the event offers more than a sampling of everything chocolate. Other festival activities include the "Chocolate Pudding Contest" that goes on continually throughout the event, a "Cake Walk" showcasing the Chocolate Cupcakes and Cakes made available for purchase to all. The festival is scheduled from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 2nd and from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. on Sunday, Feb.3rd at the Crystal Coast Civic Center in Morehead City. Tickets are $8.00 for Adults, $2.00 for kids 5-12; children under 5 are admitted free. Active Duty Military personnel will be given free admission on Sunday with military I.D.

Website Carolina Chocolate Festival

It's the first Italian congress dedicated to signature cuisine. Identità Golose Milano welcomes on stage 18 great cuisine and pastry professionals, many of them Italian: from Carlo Cracco to Fulvio Pierangelini, from Nadia Santini to Gianfranco Vissani. These chefs know how to give a personal touch to their work, both in the field of tradition and down the road of creativity. «Gourmet Italy can boast an extraordinary capacity to produce goods which, thanks to their originality and style, rarely find any equals in the world. This is something to be proud of», Marchi explains, «which however doesn't authorize us to believe we're the absolute best». So this is why the presence of a good number of foreign chefs is justified: during the first edition, beside the Italian chefs, there were lessons given by Ferran Adrià, Andoni Luis Aduriz and Quique Dacosta from Spain, Wylie Dufresne from the US and Jean-Luc Fau from France. All around them, from the onset, were those artisans of food without whose work with primary goods, no dish could be created by a chef.
Website Identita' Golose Milano

Nutella fans around the world will once again celebrate their love for the chocolate-hazelnut spread for the 6th annual World Nutella Day. Through World Nutella Day, adults around the world are encouraged to experience a second childhood by discovering Nutella for the first time. From homemade recipes to haikus, from picture collages to odes to Nutella, fans are speaking out about their love and showing it online.
Website World Nutella Day

Each year's Loire Valley Wine Trade Fair is a major event on the international wine calendar. The fair plays a key role in the economics of the industry, and the emphasis is always on the outlook for the future.
Website Salon des Vins de Loire

More than 150 real ales from all over Britain will be on during the festival as well as ciders & perries and a good selection of foreign beers. Hot & cold food and snacks will be available too.
Website Battersea Beer Festival

Fruit Logistica is the leading international meeting place of the fresh produce trade. More than 2,400 companies from across the entire fresh produce value chain will be present in a single location - including global players as well as small and medium-sized suppliers from all around the world.
For three whole days, Fruit Logistica provides:
• an across-the-board presence of top international exhibitors
• an excellent platform for initiating business deals
• excellent opportunities for making worldwide business contacts
• a unique opportunity to gain a complete overview of the latest trends in the fresh produce business
Website Fruit Logistica

After 11 amazing years, dessert-based Chocolate Decadence has evolved into a unique culinary extravaganza, Flavors of Boca! Join more than 800 guests in an effort to support the charitable organizations that are supported by the Junior League of Boca Raton and its community initiative C.H.O.W. (Conquering Hunger Our Way)
Experience dishes from your favorite local restaurants, great musical entertainment, and fabulous raffle and silent auction items. The evening will also include a food judging competition, where restaurants will go head to head by placing their best food forward.
Join the Junior League of Boca Raton in our C.H.O.W. (Conquering Hunger Our Way) initiative. Funds raised will go directly to support the issue of hunger as well as other issues supported by the JLBR
Website Flavors of Boca

Please join us and experience this not-to-be-missed opportunity to preview and taste the variety of Italy's finest wine producing regions with over thirty different selections presented by some of the most well-know winemakers in the industry and exciting new producers to the market. Seminars, guided wine tastings and food pairings will be held in the Miami Culinary Institute. The walk-around tasting will be held in the Freedom Tower.
Info Simply Italian Great Wines

The Tropical Wine Festival will offer guests the opportunity to leave behind a cold Iowa winter and escape to sample some of the best Iowa-crafted wines from the fifteen central Iowa wineries that comprise the Heart of Iowa Wine Trail. Hors d'ouevres will be prepared and served by approximately 15 of Central Iowa's best known restaurants (El Chisme, Splash, Gino's West, Luna, etc,) and specialty food providers (Frisian Farms cheese, Maytag Blue Cheese, etc). Guests are encouraged to wear their favorite tropical shirt and enjoy prize drawings and other fun activities throughout the evening. Wines served at the event will also be offered for sale on site by the wineries. All those attending the Tropical Wine Festival will receive a commemorative wine glass. Tropical Wine Festival at the Scottish Rite Consistory at 519 Park St., from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Info Tropical Wine Festival

This international beer tasting extravaganza will showcase more than 50 breweries from across the globe, each providing samples of their country's proudest brewing achievement.
Shoulder to shoulder with some of America's best breweries, will be amazing breweries from Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Austria, Nicaragua, Thailand, Poland, New Zealand, Indonesia, Sweden, China, and others.
Website International Great Beer Expo

One sector, one event - and thousands of ideas, contacts and business deals. ISM, the world´s leading trade fair for the confectionery industry, offers the right platform for the highly innovative world of confectionery - and for all the trends and themes that interest the various business partners and shape the future, for all familiar and new products that reach people and markets and generate new turnover.
Website ISM - International Sweets & Biscuits Fair

The 2013 BC Foodservice Expo, Western Canada's largest hospitality trade show, is held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in downtown Vancouver.
Whether you're an owner/operator, chef, manager, buyer or other decisionmaker who needs to stay on top of new trends and products, this show is for you. See and sample new and innovative food and beverage products. Touch and test the latest equipment and hospitality services. Network with your industry colleagues.
Website BC Foodservice Expo

Set in January at the magnificent alpine setting of Sun Peaks Resort, the annual Winter Okanagan Wine Festival is one of a kind. From skiing and snowboarding, to wine seminars and progressive tastings, this is a unique experience - kind of like our award winning icewines and a hot tub. Now that's a good wine pairing.
Start the day with a great run on fresh powder, pop in for a seminar led by a wine master and end up at a winemaker's.
Info Winter Okanagan Wine Festival

Packed with dozens of practical workshops, a large trade show, organic meals, and lots of opportunities to meet other organic farmers.
Info Minnesota Organic Conference and Trade Show

The Festival of Chocolate is the Premiere Chocolate Tasting Event in Florida. Chocolate lovers will enjoy decadent delights from Florida's Best chocolate and confection companies. Truffles, candies, cupcakes, brownies, cookies, pastries, molds and melting chocolates, even chocolate spa treatments.
Watch demonstrations by award-winning pastry chefs, walk through a chocolate-themed museum, and let the kids get creative in their own chocolate craft area. Sit up close as chocolate experts and celebrities judge the best chocolate indulgences in Florida.
Info The Festival of Chocolate - Tampa

North America's largest specialty food and beverage marketplace. The Winter Fancy Food Show has the hottest food trends, newest products and best networking opportunities in the specialty food trade. Each year the 17,000+ Winter Fancy Food Show attendees discover more than 80,000 products featuring the world's finest foods and beverages from more than 1,300 exhibitors representing 35+ countries.
Info Winter Fancy Food Show

No other event in New England, or the whole country for that matter, offers as wide a variety of wines to tantalize your palette. Over 450 wineries from around the globe pour over 1,800 wines for you to sample. Celebrity chefs** appearing at this year's Expo include Jasper White of Summer Shack, Gordon Hamersley of Hamersley's Bistro, Michael Schlow of Radius, Ming Tsai of Blue Ginger, Daniel Bruce of the Boston Harbor Hotel, Anthony Caturano of Prezza, Marc Orfaly of Pigalle, Mark J. Porcaro of Top of the Hub, Richard Vellante and Sandy Block MW of Legal Sea Foods, Roseann Tully of Intermezzo Magazine, Rachel Klein of Aura, Richard Rayment of the Seaport World Trade Center and Evan Deluty of Stella.
Website Boston Wine Expo

For the sixth year in a row the International Day of Italian Cuisines comes back. Once again it will be a worldwide celebration of authentic and quality Italian Cuisine. The IDIC 2013 official dish is Tiramisù, undoubtedly the most widely known dolce italiano in the world and for this very reason, one of the most imitated. Tiramisù could well be the symbol of the unhindered spread of Italian cuisine in the world over the last 30 years. It has been described as heaven in your mouth, but certainly, to help make it famous the relative easiness of its preparation has contributed.
The by now traditional global ola of Tiramisù will be once again headed by hundreds of GVCI associates from more than 40 countries but any Italian Food lover or any lover of good food can be a part of this unique event. Joining the celebration is easy: just, fill in this form and prepare Tiramisù on January 17, 2013 according to the authentic recipe.
Info International Day of Italian Cuisines

Pork Congress is Minnesota's only swine specific tradeshow and pork producer educational event.Sponsored by the Minnesota Pork Producers Association, the Pork Congress tradeshow, seminars and social activities are designed exclusively for pork producers and pork industry stakehoolders.
Website Minnesota Pork Congress

At its 34th edition, the expo is acknowledged as the world´s most important in the artisan gelato sector, a primary European showcase for artisan Italian confectionery and is also strengthening its position in the artisan bakery field.
This year, Sigep will be held parallel to A.B Tech Expo, the International Baking and Technology Exhibition for Bakery, Pastry and Confectionery. The whole world of baking, from the artisan to the industrial sector, will be coming to Rimini for a world-leading event that´s the only one of its kind in Italy. Together, SIGEP and Tech Expo are an outstanding tool to help multiply your business. On show, all the very latest in raw materials, basic products, plant, machinery, furnishing and fittings for the artisan gelato and bakery trades.
Thematic sections, international contests and championships, demos, courses and updating seminars and expos all contribute to making it a unique spectacular event
Website SIGEP

The whole world of baking, from the artisan to the industrial sector, is coming to Rimini.
In 2013 the entire bread and pizza chain and that of confectionery and pastry are showcased togheter at the great SIGEP expo, forming a unique event in Italy and absolute leader at world level. At A.B. Tech Expo all the artisan's solutions, flexibility and professionalism, plus the automation of industry.
Website AB Tech Expo

In 2009 in celebration of its 20th birthday, Slow Food launched an idea to the network: to celebrate your local food on the same day, whoever and wherever you are, in whatever way you want. With no restrictions on how to celebrate, limited only by the confines of your imaginations, we weren't sure what to expect.
Then came the big day, December 10, and the results were astounding - an anti-fast food rally in Bangladesh, a tree planting ceremony in Kenya, a ‘locavore' cooking contest in Canada, a long table against GMOs in Germany, a photo exhibition in India, an eat-in in London and more than 1,000 others involving more than 100,000 people in every corner in the world. The Slow Food network had stepped up to the challenge.
Three years on, Terra Madre Day is now a fixture on the international Slow Food calendar with more and more people getting involved and getting creative.. Slow Food convivia, Terra Madre communities and our supporters look forward to creating another opportunity to enjoy coming together to celebrate local food and to seeing what the rest of the world is doing simultaneously. It is also our opportunity to demonstrate the philosophy of good, clean and fair food to communities, media and decision makers as a united movement.
Once again this year, we invite you to join the festivities. Find an event near you or create one of your own, as simple or complex, big or small as you wish. Together we'll shout our message to world: a global revolution grows from local roots.
Website Terra Madre Day

The premier show for fruit and vegetable growers, farm marketers and greenhouse operators.
Informative education program for fruit, vegetable and greenhouse growers, and for farm marketers - 63 sessions and workshops over three days
-- Fruit and vegetable commodities
-- Greenhouse production and marketing
-- Farm marketing ideas and issues
-- General topics of special interest to growers
Trade show with 400 exhibitors covering four acres of exhibit space in one hall
Featuring several special events and networking opportunities:
-- Bus tour for farm marketers
-- Awards banquet
-- Industry luncheon
-- Prayer breakfast
-- And much more
Website Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market Expo

Kick off your holiday season by participating in the 8th annual Currier & Ives Cookie tour. There are currently over a dozen stops that will bring you to Fitzwilliam, Jaffrey, Rindge, Troy, Marlborough, Peterborough, and Swanzey. A portion of this year's proceeds will be donated to Santa's House of Jaffrey. Santa's House is a project of the Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce that provides Christmas gifts to children in need.
At each stop you will enjoy a homemade treat and refreshment. (Recipe cards will be provided as well.) Participants that visit all the stops on the tour will be entered to win a gift certificate valued at over $100.00 that can be redeemed at any participating location on the tour
Website Currier & Ives Cookie tour

Come celebrate the Holidays with food and beer tasting. You will pay one fee to get in and You will receive a souvenir four oz. tasting glass with a two ounce pour line. You are welcome to sample any beer that the brewers have. The Garden State Exhibit Center will have food for purchase. Food does not come with the price of admission.
Website The Big Brew Beer Festival

Participants will not only tour inns decked in all their holiday finery offering signature holiday cookies and candies, but will also include a collector's ornaments and recipe collections from each inn and a chance to win a $250 gift certificate for a getaway at the inn of your choice. Chosen by editors of New Hampshire Magazine as "The Best Sugar High", proceeds from the event will benefit area nonprofit associations.
The tour stretches from Harts Location to Chocorua, NH, with thirteen inns opening their doors to those in search of fabulous holiday treats, recipes and decorating ideas. No inn is more than fifteen minutes from the next, with many much closer. Visit all 13 properties to receive a keepsake magical flying reindeer ornament, the seventh in the collection.
Inns participating in the tour this year include the Darby Field Inn in Albany; Riverbend Inn and Brass Heart Inn in Chocorua; Inn at Crystal Lake and Pub in Eaton; Covered Bridge House in Glen; Notchland Inn in Hart's Location; Glen Oaks Inn in Intervale; Inn at Ellis River in Jackson; 1785 Inn & Restaurant; Eastman Inn, Old Red Inn & Cottages in North Conway, Snowvillage Inn in Snowville, and Admiral Peary Inn Bed & Breakfast in Fryeburg, Maine.
Each of these thirteen inns on the 16th Annual Inn to Inn Cookie and Candy Tour will feature original holiday cookies and candies, along with exquisite decorations offering tour goers the bonus of taking home holiday decorating ideas as well as scrumptious cookies and candies for themselves. The participating inns have developed original recipes for everything from sweet to savory holiday treats, with each inn featuring new recipes for this year's tour. Tour goers will take home recipes for the treats featured on the tour, creating a keepsake collection of tested holiday cookies and candy recipes to use at home.
Info Annual Inn to Inn Holiday Cookie and Candy Tour

Taste of Melbourne 2012 will follow in the footsteps of Taste Festivals worldwide and move outdoors to host its greatest food and wine celebration to date. Preparations are well underway for the inaugural alfresco dining event, taking place in the beautiful lakeside setting of Albert Park
Website Taste of Melbourne

The largest conference and tradeshow in North America for the potato industry. This is the one place where attendees from across the supply chain come together to do business.
Potato Expo:
*Offers educational programming covering the latest issues facing the potato industry.
*Provides numerous networking opportunities with key decision makers.
*Showcases the latest products and services for the potato industry.
Website Potato Expo

Join us for the 13th Annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival Weekend! Come up to Vail to experience the event that beer connoisseurs are raving about. Homebrewers, Professional Brewers and Industry Gurus alike speak highly with regard to the unique format, the unusual international collection of beers, the organization and the overall quality of the event.
For those of you who are Big Beers Festival veterans, this 13th Anniversary celebration promises to live up to your previous experiences and take it one step further. Look forward to more goodies from Executive Chef Todd Bemis and his culinary team at the Vail Cascade Resort & Spa, calibrate with Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Avery Brewing Co., enjoy special features by Dry Dock Brewing Co. and Firestone Walker Brewing Co., and sample over 200 amazing creations by breweries from around the globe.
Website Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival

Photo by David Foxhoven

Bring your taste buds to the 8th annual Wine and Food show at the Western
Fair District. We take wines from wineries across Ontario, mix with local resturants from London - Shake - Than garnish with new areas such as the Spirits and Liqour exhibit for a delicious, fun filled evening. With a generous helping of food connoisseurs and wine experts, tasting seminars, cooking demonstrations, divine sampling opportunities and informative exhibits. Not only will you have a fun night out with friends, you can expand your palette and try your favorite or experience new food
Info The London Wine & Food Show

The American Truffle Company returns to Napa with the third annual Napa Truffle Festival - bringing together two complementary aspects of European truffles: the best chefs in the world known for their truffle cuisine, and the best truffle experts/scientists in the world recognized for their expertise and data on truffle cultivation. Gourmands and intended truffle growers alike will find a bounty of activities throughout the festival weekend to satisfy their craving and curiosity for the flavor and knowledge of one of the world's most prized and delectable fungi.
Recognized around the world as a wine-growing and culinary Mecca, Napa Valley will again serve as the host for the festival weekend, partnering with The Westin Verasa Napa as "truffle central" with specially negotiated prices on rooms exclusively for Festival guests.
Unique to this Festival is our Michelin Star team of chefs led by Ken Frank of La Toque, presenting culinary demonstrations, and showcasing their extraordinary skills and talents in a tour de force Truffles & Wine Dinner on Saturday evening.
Leading the scientific track will be truffle cultivation expert Robert Chang and mycorrhizal expert/scientist Dr. Paul Thomas. and knowledgeable experts on truffle cultivation. And setting the tone with a special guest keynote speaker - tba.
The Festival will conclude on Monday with a lively Napa Truffle Festival Marketplace at Oxbow Public Market-from farm, orchard and vineyard to kitchen, table and glass-showcasing local artisan vendors and their specialty food products, plus a walk-around wine tasting.
Website Napa Truffle Festival

The UK's largest celebration of all that makes France such a special place.
This is your chance to learn about everything France has to offer - from wine tasting to holiday inspiration, and from sampling cheese in the market to improving your French in the language theatre. The France Show also hosts the largest French Property Exhibition in the UK, so come and meet the experts and find your dream home
Website The France Show

For three weeks in January the Niagara Region is transformed into a wintry wonderland, celebrating one of Canada's most cherished products, Ontario Icewine. From Gala evening toasts to chestnut roasts, ornate ice bars and winery tours, the 18th annual Niagara Icewine Festival offers plenty for every taste.
Website Niagara Icewine Festival

Each year, the area's premier restaurants and confectioners showcase bite-size samples of their special chocolate desserts and candies for visitors at the Largo Cultural Center . The 17th Annual Death by Chocolate fundraiser is put on by the Rotary Club of Largo to support local youth and empowerment initiatives.
Website Death by Chocolate

Taste of Christmas is the UK's biggest Christmas food festival, a celebration of food, drink, restaurants and world-renowned chefs and is a key event in preparing passionate foodies for the festive season.
To celebrate the world coming to London in 2012, this year's Taste of Christmas will be launching a brand new feature called ‘Festive Flavours of the World'. This will showcase the best quality international festive cuisines and take visitors on a journey of discovery to find out how different countries and cultures celebrate Christmas.
Alongside a mouthwatering international feast, the festival will showcase unique Christmas gifts, celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and expert master-classes in essential skills for Christmas dining, seasonal baking and festive decorations. Giving the show an even more festive feel is a Christmas choir and acoustic music. Taste of Christmas 2012 will also feature the Electrolux Taste Theatre where visitors to the show can glean Christmas cooking tips-a-plenty from some of the world's most experienced and greatest chefs helping to make their Christmas dinner in 2012 one to remember.
Last year's Taste of Christmas welcomed some of the UK's most well renowned chefs including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Gary Rhodes and Theo Randall. This year's line-up of Michelin-starred restaurants and world-famous chefs will be revealed shortly, it looks to be the most festive culinary event of the season.
Website Taste of Christmas

Food, Fun and Farmer's Market Ruskin Tomato Queen, Antique Tractor Show, Bluegrass and Country Music, Heritage Center, Historical Exhibits, Plant Show and Sale, Gardening Seminars and Workshops, Fried Green Tomatoes, Kid's Korner- Rides and Games, Crafts, Products and Prizes, Watershed Tour, Butterfly tent, with release at end of Festival, Free Sliced Tomatoes.
Web site Ruskin Tomato and Heritage Festival

Fine Food India is India's latest trade event for the retail, foodservice, bakery and hospitality industries. You'll have the opportunity to network with more than 150 local and international exhibitors with thousands of new products on display. Here you can establish new business partnerships, increase your competitive advantage by sourcing new and leading products from India and around the world. We will be running Meet the Buyer sessions over 3 days to facilitate business development between visitors and exhibitors.
You'll be able to see cooking demonstrations live throughout this 3 day event, led by India's leading chefs. And don't miss watching India's best sommeliers compete in the 5th Annual Sommelier Championships chaired by Magandeep Singh, India's first French-Certified Sommelier, the 5th Annual Championships is the only event of its kind in India
Website International Food & Drink Expo India

The USA Rice Outlook Conference is the annual educational forum for rice farmers from all rice-producing states and representatives from all segments of the U.S. rice industry. The conference features an educational program and a trade show.
Info USA Rice Outlook Conference

The Royal Ulster Winter Fair, in association with sole sponsor Northern Bank, is an established and highly successful event in the agricultural calendar. Visitors will see the highest quality of dairy cattle livestock on show as well as having the opportunity to find out what the industry has to offer. It also provides an excellent vehicle for exhibitors to market their products and services to the dairy farming industry.
The event features showing classes for Holstein, Aryshire, Dairy Shorthorn and Jersey breeds. With accommodation for 200 cattle and over 3,500 sqm of trade stand space, this is an event not to be missed.
Website The Royal Ulster Winter Fair

Florida foodies have a reason to celebrate. A flood of epicurean talent arrives in Palm Beach County for the 2012 Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival. A mix of award-winning chefs, culinary personalities, authors, winemakers and mixologists are teaming up to create a culinary event never before seen in Palm Beach County. With nearly a dozen events supporting the foundation Chefs Dish BackTM, the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival 2012 launches the biggest charity event of the season. Join the food movement.
Website Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival

The annual Gourmet Food & Wine Expo is held in November at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building. The Gourmet Food & Wine Expo offers over 40,000 guests an unparalleled opportunity to sample over 1,500 fine wines, beers and spirits from around the globe. The Expo embraces the style and sophistication of a cocktail party paired with unprecedented educational opportunities and compelling feature areas.
Website Gourmet Food & Wine Expo

The Festival of Chocolate is the Premiere Chocolate Tasting Event in Florida. Chocolate lovers will enjoy decadent delights from Florida's Best chocolate and confection companies. Truffles, candies, cupcakes, brownies, cookies, pastries, molds and melting chocolates, even chocolate spa treatments. Watch demonstrations by award-winning pastry chefs, walk through a chocolate-themed museum, and let the kids get creative in their own chocolate craft area. Sit up close as chocolate experts and celebrities judge the best chocolate indulgences in Florida.
Website The Festival of Chocolate

Taste of Playa is a culinary event in Playa del Carmen that celebrates the creativity and cultural influences of chefs throughout the Riviera Maya. The event promotes the unique culinary perspectives of local chefs, highlights new event venues that attract a variety of participants and coordinates the efforts of local businesses and municipal governments.
In the spirit of community, a portion of the event proceeds will be used to assist a not-for-profit food or clean water program in the area. The goal of the committee is to help develop and sustain community based initiatives that have a positive effect on the residents of Playa del Carmen and the Riviera Maya.
Website Taste of Playa

UpperCrust Show has established itself as a very unique food and wine trade fair where it successfully brings together the finest of national and international vintners and distillers, the biggest names in the food and cuisine industry, renowned chefs, leading restaurateurs, respected critics and celebrities known for their discerning tastebuds
Website UpperCrust Show Food and Wine Show

Annual charity event Montréal Passion Vin stands out through its unique wines and rare vintages showcased by renowned producers from reputed estates, châteaux and vineyards. The two-day event is filled with not only incomparable wine tastings but also excellent food, passionate conversation, and the Grand Banquet, a veritable gourmet delight.
Website Montréal Passion Vin

InterFood Novosibirsk features a wide range of food and drink products, targeted at the Siberian food market. InterFood Novosibirsk has proved an effective forum for promoting new products, discovering more about the local market and meeting professionals within the industry, including producers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers and restaurateurs. InterFood Novosibirsk hosts companies from Russia and abroad, offering products for the food and drink market, as well as food ingredients and food processing equipment and machinery
Website InterFood Novosibirsk

The winter season holds many gifts for beer lovers in the form of big, bold ales designed to fend off the cold chill of a long winter's night. Each year, the Holiday Ale Festival annually gathers up dozens of these winter warmers for a joyous five-day celebration. As a result, this quintessential Portland event has earned a reputation as the premier winter beer tasting venue on the West Coast. Held in the heart of downtown Portland, the Holiday Ale Festival keeps attendees warm and dry under a large clear top tent that covers Pioneer Courthouse Square while allowing for views of the city lights. Gas heaters create a cozy ambience under the boughs of one of the region's largest decorated Christmas trees.
More than 50 potent winter ales are featured at this year's event, all of which are created specifically to bring warmth and cheer to the holiday season. These aren't beers you'll find in the supermarket - our brewers have put together special recipes just for the Holiday Ale Festival. From Belgians and Barleywines to Stouts and Sours, these beers are rich, robust and full of complex flavors.
Website Holiday Ale Festival

Food & Life is centred around the food trade. Top chefs and Michelin star chefs tell visitors a few of their culinary secrets and show how best to process good produce. Moreover, products will be demonstrated and experts will discuss topical issues regarding nutrition and sustainable means of production.
Food & Life is where gourmets meet. As an exhibitor you can present your products to visitors in an appealing environment. The following range of products and services are represented at this trade fair for gourmets:
• Delicatessen items
• Health food
• Spices, herbs, oil, vinegar
• Fruit and vegetables
• Meat, sausage and fish products
• Pastries, confectionery, spreads
• Dairy products and eggs
• Drinks
• Natural product pharmacy
• Tobacco goods
• Media
Website Food & Life

The purpose of the festival is to produce a grand celebration to recognize the importance of the peanut to the Southwest Texas agriculture, although it is now an endangered crop in the area, and to celebrate the farming and harvesting of the peanut in the Wilson County area. The association is proud to provide scholarships for the young men and women that participate in the Royal Court. The Festival promotes tourism letting visitors enjoy Historic Floresville and all we have to offer. Guests will find coupon booths selling food coupons for One Dollar each in two locations on the Festival Grounds. Foods such as sodas can be purchased for 1 coupon while main dishes such as hamburgers, fajita tacos, goritas, etc. will cost 5-7 coupons. Coupons are not universal. Beer coupons are also available by the beer booth under the oak tree for $1.00 per coupon. Carnival coupons are available at the carnival with rides averaging 2 to 3 coupons per ride
Website Floresville Peanut Festival

58th Annual Conference. The National Chicken Council (NCC), based in Washington, D.C., is the national, non-profit trade association representing the U.S. chicken industry. NCC is a full-service trade association that promotes and protects the interests of the chicken industry and is the industry's voice before Congress and federal agencies. NCC member companies include chicken producer/processors, poultry distributors, and allied industry firms. The producer/processors account for approximately 95 percent of the chickens produced in the United States.
Website National Chicken Council

The Zwolle Tamale Fiesta celebrates the rich Spanish and Indian heritage of the people of the town. Held each year at the Zwolle Festival Grounds, the Zwolle Tamale Fiesta offers a fun-filled weekend of reliving the area's heritage with plenty of delicious hot tamales, entertainment, arts and crafts, dancing, parades, and children's activities
Website Zwolle Tamale Fiesta

Whisky Live prides itself on bringing together the finest whiskies, great food and a range of education and entertainment to make learning about whisky both fun and stimulating. Whether you are a whisky enthusiast an uninitiated newcomer or just looking for a day out that offers you something different Whisky Live has something for everyone.
Whisky Live gives you the unique opportunity to sample the greatest whiskies in the world, whilst mingling with the producers and distillers, marketers and visitor centre staff, all under one roof. In addition to learning about the world of whisky, you will be able to sample rare and sought-after whiskies and meet the stars of the industry.
Each event has its own local flavour and provides the greatest insight into this greatest of spirits. With great food, masterclasses and much more, Whisky Live is a great day out and a memorable experience
Info Whisky Live Los Angeles

The event will take place at 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center. There will be delicious food and wine throughout the evening all donated by area restaurants, caterers and wine distributors. Attendees will have an opportunity to vote to recognize their favorite food dish by voting for the "Taste of the Bay" and to cast a vote for the "Best of the Fest" award, which is designed to provide recognition to the most outstanding restaurant or caterer participant overall.
Website Wine Festival at 5 Rivers

The Food Film Festival sprang from the imagination of Festival Director George Motz, the documentary filmmaker behind the award-winning Hamburger America film and book, along with co-creator Harry Hawk, formerly of Schnack and Water Taxi Beach. Through documentaries, features and short films, the Festival showcases the best, and the most memorable, of the world's favorite foods. Along with a heaping helping of mouth-watering films, Motz, Hawk and company serve up the food that guests are watching on the screen for a multi-sensory, full-bodied experience.
The Food Film Festival is a competitive film festival that presents awards in multiple categories including: Best Feature, Best Short, Best Super-Short, Best Food Porn, Food Filmmaker of the Year and the Audience Choice Award. The Official Selections of The Food Film Festival are reviewed by a judging panel comprised of esteemed members of the food and film communities
Website NYC Food Film Festival

Harvest is the most colorful time of year in Paso Robles Wine Country and those in the know have long since discovered the experience that can be had while visiting wine country at its height of activity. Held the third weekend in October, wineries celebrate the beginning of the vintage by inviting you into their individual events that are as diverse as the wineries themselves. Join the personalities of wine country in the vineyards, on the crush pad, and in the tasting rooms. Indulge in a wide array of individual events at area wineries including vineyard tours, special tastings, and winemaker dinners. Take part in a blending seminar, or jump feet first into a two-ton grape stomp
Info Harvest Wine Weekend

Taste of Success is a premiere beverage and culinary tasting event, which will bring together more than 400 business professionals to experience the region's best food, wine, beer and spirits. Firms represented will include the Advisory Board Company, Cambridge Associates, Charles River Associates, the Corporate Executive Board, Deloitte, Gallup, Kaiser Associates, KPMG, PwC, and more
Website Taste of Success

A great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and live music all day. There are 40 Bourbons and 60 Beers on Tap. Enjoy the great barbeque selection - pulled pork from whole hogs, ribs, brisket, chickens, sausages and any fixin' you could imagine
Info Beer Bourbon and BBQ Festival Nashville

The Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show is the premiere consumer event in the nation for cooking and entertaining enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels. The show will feature exhibitors, live cooking demonstrations by the hottest chefs in DC, tasting and entertaining workshops, and presentations from Food Network celebrities. This is a one-of-a kind event for anyone who loves to cook or entertain. Giada De Laurentiis, Gail Simmons, Tom Colicchio, Carla Hall, Jacques Pepin, Claudine Pepin and Jeff Mauro will feature in the Celebrity Theater. Each celebrity theater ticket includes a complimentary general admission ticket which gives you access to Tasting & Entertaining Workshops, the Cooking Stage featuring DC's hottest chefs, and exhibitors selling and sampling specialty food and entertaining products.
Website Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show

A Northwest legendary food and wine Festival that presents, the best of Northwest Wines's, Spirits and beers in combination with highest quality cuisines from the areas well known and famous chefs and restaurants. This year, a professional chefs Pate' in Portland contest.
Preferred Grand Tasting: 4:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M
General admission:5:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Wesite Northwest Food and Wine Festival

Antique farm implements provide a challenge to those competing in Saturday's egg cracking contest. The fun continues on Sunday with addition of the antique cars on display, along with more music guaranteed to get you dancing. Grab your seat early for the procession of chefs, eggs and bread to the Giant 12 foot skillet where fun and follie are the order of day for those preparing the "5000 Egg" Giant Omelette.
Website Giant Omelette Celebration

Geographe wines and produce are featured in the heart of the region at Bunbury, showcasing some of the best wines available from one of the state's youngest wine regions. Celebrating the wines grown from Harvey in the north, to the hills of Collie, Dardanup and Donnybrook, down to Capel and Busselton, visitors will be able to sip and taste their way through some fantastic award winning wines and food. The event promotes the wines and produce available and encourages attendees to discover the cellar doors and attractions while sampling what is on offer.
Individual entry will be $20 (pre purchase $15). It will include souvenir glass and access to wine tastings and entertainment. Glasses of wine can also be purchased for consumption on site, with packaged sales for visitors to take home their favourite tastes of the show. Tapas styled meals will be available for purchase. The Geographe Wine Region boasts some new and exciting wines, wonderful landscape and great places to stay for the family. Visitors are encouraged to spend more than just the day at the event and arrange to explore the region in more detail either over the weekend or at a later date. The Geographe Wine Region is less than 2 hours from Perth. Around 40 companies will be on show which is set in the heart of Bunbury at Bicentennial Square.
Website Geographe Crush Food and Wine Festival

Discover wineries and new releases from the regions of Western Australia. UnWined promotes fine Western Australian wines and gourmet food to treat visitors an indulgent experience of the state's produce in the magnificent Subiaco food and wine district. Individual entry will be $25 (pre purchase $20). It will include souvenir glass and access to wine tastings, entertainment, and cooking demonstrations.
Glasses of wine can also be purchased for consumption on site, with packaged sales for visitors to take home their favourite tastes of the show. Tapas styled meals will be available for purchase. UnWined Western Australia is in its second year and is organised by CMS Events who founded the original WA Wine & Food Festival at Burswood in the mid 90's and is now looking to provide a new showcase for the state's unique local produce. Western Australia has wonderful produce available and we should celebrate and promote it at events such as this. The promotion is pivotal in informing buyers of new Western Australian releases and products and an important way for WA's to be shown to our own market. UnWined WA is set to become an annual event attracting the domestic market as well as providing a showcase for national and international visitors to Western Australia. Around 70 companies are expected to take part in 2012 which will be set in the backdrop of Market Square Park, adjacent to the Subiaco business district on Roberts Road. Visitors will be able to enjoy the day out in a casual surroundings tasting wine, enjoying food and relaxing to busker styled entertainers.
Website UnWined

Chocolate World Expo will be returning for the fourth year to the Westchester County Center in White Plains, with tastings and sales of gourmet chocolates, baked goods, specialty foods, cheeses, gelato, wines and much more. While many favorite vendors from prior Westchester shows will be back again, we also have a number of great new vendors who participated in our New Jersey and Long Island shows joining us in White Plains.
Website Chocolate World Expo

Kosherfest is the world's largest kosher-certified products trade event serving the retail and foodservice industries. This is where you will come face-to-face with the products and people that will help you succeed in today's kosher marketplace
Website Kosherfest

The Ottawa Wine and Food Show is one of the longest running shows of its type in the country. A 5-day celebration of sampling the world's finest wines, foods and spirits and learning with renowned wine makers, chefs, brew masters and cheese makers from home and abroad. From learning how to taste and savour wine, to the best advice on what to serve at a special dinner party, to live kitchen demos, wine and food pairings and more taste and savour what you like, and learn all about it
Website Ottawa Wine & Food Show

BioFach has been enthusiastic about organically produced food for many years. This exhibition highlight offers you a variety of themes, perspectives and impulses for promoting the organic food industry worldwide. Meet the doers and thinkers and become part of the international organic family. The premiere of the event one year ago brought together over 3,000 trade visitors.
Website BioFach India

True to its name, Cornucopia is the fall festival for the indulgent and the connoisseur. Ideally located in the majestic resort town of Whistler, BC, the festival celebrates an exemplary culinary scene and impeccable wines for every type of bon vivant. Offering a truly sensory experience, with winery dinners, interactive seminars, gala wine tastings and electric after-parties, this high-end five day showcase fulfills its mission to put Whistler on the map as the must-experience wine and food party. Cornucopia Food and Wine Festival is the most important event on Whistler's gourmand calendar. Featuring local and regional restaurants, chefs, producers, breweries, distilleries and wineries, Cornucopia emerges as the West Coast's premier resort-based epicurean extravaganza. Seize opportunities to learn from industry professionals, be involved with demonstrations, sip, sample and savour some of the offerings of BC and beyond and bask in the breathtaking beauty that is Whistler and the Sea to Sky.
Website Cornucopia

The Capital Food Fight brings the food industry's best talent together to support DC Central Kitchen's unique brand of community empowerment. Dozens of hot restaurants serve signature dishes to guests while top chefs battle on-stage. Food critics and national celebrities are on hand to mingle with the crowd and add to the excitement. Returning as hosts are José Andrés and Anthony Bourdain. New this year as judges: The Chew's Carla Hall, Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi, and Bizarre Foods' Andrew Zimmern. And we've got some great new battling chefs from hot local restaurants: Chefs Jeffrey Buben from Vidalia/Bistro Bis, Enzo Fargione from Elisir, and Guillermo Pernot from Cube Libre. In its 9th year, the Capital Food Fight supports the work of DC Central Kitchen to combat hunger and create opportunity.
Website Capital Food Fight

The Capital Food Fight brings the food industry's best talent together to support DC Central Kitchen's unique brand of community empowerment. Dozens of hot restaurants serve signature dishes to guests while top chefs battle on-stage. Food critics and national celebrities are on hand to mingle with the crowd and add to the excitement. Returning as hosts are José Andrés and Anthony Bourdain. New this year as judges: The Chew's Carla Hall, Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi, and Bizarre Foods' Andrew Zimmern. And we've got some great new battling chefs from hot local restaurants: Chefs Jeffrey Buben from Vidalia/Bistro Bis, Enzo Fargione from Elisir, and Guillermo Pernot from Cube Libre. In its 9th year, the Capital Food Fight supports the work of DC Central Kitchen to combat hunger and create opportunity.
Website Capital Food Fight

BBC Good Food Show London boasts the city's largest indoor speciality food market and some of the nations favourite TV programmes brought to life. The show will see some of the biggest names in the business together under one roof. A new 600 seat super theatre, sponsored by Plenty in the West hall of the London Olympia will host sessions from some of the country's finest chefs and will bring to life some of the nation's favourite TV programmes including Saturday Kitchen hosted by James Martin, MasterChef: The Professionals with Michel Roux Jr and Monica Galetti and Great British Bake Off master classes with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry.
With over 300 expected food and drink exhibitors, visitors can discover something indulgent for the festive season including World Champion Cheese 2010, Cornish Blue from the Cornish Cheese Company, smoked salmon from Inerawe Smokehouse and single estate teas from Luponde Tea. The BBC Good Food Show London includes entry into The Wine Show and is the perfect place to find new and exciting wines to share to taste and try before you buy. The Wine Show is located upstairs at London Olympia and will open at 11am, along with the Restaurant Experience.
Website BBC Good Food Show London

Forum Vini is an excellent market place for
• wines, sparkling wines and spirits
• regional and country-typical specialities
• delicacies and delicatessen
• accessories and cellar equipment
• wine magazines and books
• services from the catering, travelling and online sectors
In a large, open tasting area, the award-winning wines of the 2012 MUNDUS VINI competition will be available for tasting, with all relevant information including technical data, an aroma wheel, "Product Passport", and details of how to contact the supplier. A special highlight will be the additional tasting "Best of Rioja".
Website Forum Vini

This weekend event will be a melting pot for culinary enthusiasts throughout the Midwest, offering the opportunity to discover the latest cooking techniques from celebrity chefs, as well as those at the local and regional level. The event will be divided up into sections consisting of The Emporium, where more than 100 exhibitors will display and sell their goods, wine, specialty beers and spirits. Celebrity Kitchen Theatre featuring the talents of nationwide and world renowned chefs, The Local Stage, featuring daily demonstrations from local and regional chefs, and Naked GrapeMeet & Greet Zone
Website Iowa's Premier Wine and Food Expo

The main objective of il BonTà is to make the agro-food excellencies producers meet distributors, buyers and restaurateurs; a meeting point to find out new commercial ways for high quality typical products. In eight editions il BonTà confirmed itself as an effective tool for the sector; just take a look to the figures of the last edition: 171 exhibitors from 60 Italian provinces, 48,759 visitors (professionals and gourmets), 24 events, and 10 hours per day of guided tastings.
Info Il BonTà

Cheese of the Year", at its 7th edition, presents the best cheese specialties from all over the world. In the last years, the contest hosted productions from France, Mexico, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Swiss, just to name some of them and every year the battle is tough. Cheese of the Year" is not only an involving contest, but above all it is a precious tool to promote international cheese excellencies.
Thank to "Cheese of the Year", gourmets, restaurateurs, distributors and buyers find out and appreciate high quality products, and in this way new commercial doors open for Italian and international producers
Info Cheese Of The Year

This international beer tasting extravaganza will showcase more than 50 breweries from across the globe, each providing samples of their country's proudest brewing achievement. Shoulder to shoulder with some of America's best breweries, including local Long Island favorites, will be amazing breweries from Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Austria, Nicaragua, Thailand, Poland, New Zealand, Indonesia, Sweden, China, and others. There will be food available for sale at the festival. Food does not come with the price of admission.
Website International Great Beer Expo

This is one of the largest events of the UK. This will be showing so many different kind products related to emigration assistance, pharmacy, pesticides, agricultural mechanization, agriculture seeds, dairy farm, manure storage, stable, feed and supplements and business services. This is an international event so thousands of people will be coming from all over the world as they will get information about latest agricultural based products.
Website AgriScot

As one of the largest wine and food festivals in the nation, the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival has helped shine the light on San Diego's thriving food scene. We've got our eyes and ears peeled for the city's most drool-worthy restaurants and newest food trends to hit the streets, bringing you an epicurean experience unlike any other. The magnitude of culinary talent in San Diego combined with an international showcase of the world's premiere wines and spirits, and the nation's trendsetting culinary masters, makes attendance at the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival a mouthwatering feast and precursor to the Thankgiving holiday.
Website San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival

The largest and longest running trade fair in China for imported food, wine, beverages and hospitality equipment:
• 16 years track record of success in Shanghai for exhibiting companies.
• Proven customer attendance of 29,000 buyers from across China.
• A trade show focused on buyers of quality imported products and not Chinese made food and beverages.
• 1,110 exhibiting companies from 77 countries and regions, 27 Official National Pavilions attended FHC 2010.
• Including specialist sections and events for Wine & Spirits, Tea & Coffee and Meat.
Website FHC China

The Clayoquot Oyster Festival is a memorable celebration of one of the ocean's most coveted culinary delights, the oyster. As a region Clayoquot Sound is a great cultivator and consumer of this special bivalve, annually growing over 50,000 gallons of oysters a year and over the festival weekend slurping back approximately 8,000-9,000. This year will be the 16th year for the much anticipated Clayoquot Oyster Festival so many toasts will be made with oysters in hand during oyster farm tours, oyster and wine tastings, the Mermaid's Ball on Friday November 16th, and of course the ever popular and decadent Oyster Gala on Saturday November 17th. Costumes, slurping contests, abundant oyster eating and lots of great music are what make this festival so special for those that live here and the welcomed visitors.
Website Clayoquot Oyster Festival

An annual pre-holiday event Now in its fifth year, this festival has established itself as Michigan's premier event for the celebration and tasting of the finest foods, wines, beers and spirits. From the connoisseur who lives and breathes for the finer things in life to the novice looking for an introduction to the world of food and spirits, the International Wine, Beer & Food Festival will deliver a grand experience that is sure to please every palette.
Info Grand Rapids International Wine & Food Festival

The only exhibition in Japan for this sector. BioFach Japan, the platform for organic food, natural cosmetics and organic textiles, welcomed 168 exhibitors from 10 countries and 16,119 visitors to the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition centre in 2011. The Organic Food Gallery, Vivaness Cosmetic Parlour, Organic Textile Street and Natural Eco Plaza present a comprehensive show for trade visitors from the wholesale and retail trade, import, catering and manufacturing.
Website BioFach Japan

The 8th Annual Denver International Wine Festival is the premier International wine and food festival in the Rocky Mountains. The Festival will focus on premium level
experiences with wine, food and travel destinations. Denver's first-ever International wine festival will continue to present wines from more than 18 countries, alongside Colorado produced wines & foods, allowing attendees to explore unique collection of products not normally accessible locally.
Website Denver International Wine Festival

The Big Sur Food and Wine Festival is a giving organization that holds events to promote Big Sur as a culinary destination, supporting the overall health, character and vitality of the Big Sur community. Its intention is to stimulate the local economy and donate a large portion of event proceeds to support local nonprofits that benefit Health, Safety, Education and Arts. In addition, it gives scholarships to talented Big Sur residents who would greatly benefit themselves and the community through wine and/or culinary education.
Website Big Sur Food and Wine Festival

The Middle East Coffee & Tea Convention successfully integrates all aspects of coffee and tea under one roof and features the best equipment, services and products from regional and international producers and suppliers. The event will deliver the world's most progressive coffee and tea products and services to the region and provide exhibitors the exposure they need to generate qualified leads and develop long-term relationships. The 4th edition of the Coffee & Tea Festival will feature many exciting additions and a variety of activities and highlights, guaranteed to benefit all exhibitors and visitors alike. The event is to take place at the Meydan Grandstand and Convention Centre (home of the Dubai World Cup)
Website Middle East Coffee & Tea Convention

A must visit show for all cake enthusiasts, combining all the latest ideas, supplies, live competitions and demonstrations from the world of sugarcraft and cake decoration. Sugarcraft and cake decorating continues to thrive as people from across the world embrace this irresistible craft. Cake International - The Sugarcraft, Cake Decorating & Baking Show this autumn promises to be bigger, brighter and more vibrant than ever before. With an abundance of cake decorating supplies to discover and a host of demonstrations, workshops and special features to enjoy, you'll be spoilt for choice. All the key figures in the cake world, revered judges and industry experts will be coming together at this highly anticipated show, plus there will be a host of competitions for both beginners and experts alike to showcase their skills. Furthermore, the international presence this year is the biggest it has ever been, with the following countries being represented at the show: Argentina, USA, Netherlands, Colombia, Ireland, South Africa, Portugal, Spain.
Info Cake International

A unique celebration rich in German culture and full of Texas fun. Enjoy good fun, food, special events and the finest in Alpine and Bavarian Style Entertainment
Website Wurstfest

The National BBQ Festival, home of the Best of the Best National BBQ Championship, also known as the National Barbecue Championship, National Barbeque Championship, or the National Bar-B-Que Championship. Featuring barbecue competions, live entertainment and BBQ demonstrations. All teams have water and electricity furnished and enjoys the benefits of enjoying a VIP Hospitality Suite that is outlandishly team, judge and volunteer friendly Representatives from the National Barbecue News, National BBQ Festival LLC, and the Exchange Club of Waycross make every possible effort to make this truly the Greatest BBQ Show on Earth. The Exchange Club of Waycross is one of the leading clubs in Georgia and known for its support of children's charities and has made this event one of their major fundraising projects.
Website National Barbecue Festival

The Merano WineFestival is the world's most exclusive wine-event, a celebration and a showcase of the finest Italian and international wines. Selected producers -the heart and soul of the Festival - are on hand to illustrate their wines to professionals, enthusiasts and journalists, who meet in Merano to transform their passion for wine into a unique experience. The pleasures of the palate are combined with a delight for the eyes, because the Festival is held in the majestic rooms of the Kurhaus, an elegant historical building in the center of town. The result of the intense work of nine tasting committees, which selected the best wines from over 300 vineries from Italy and more than 120 winemakers from Bulgaria, Germany, France, Croatia, New Zealand, Austria, Slovenia, Spain, South Africa and the USA. In addition they chose the best delicatessen from over 100 food stores for the Merano WineFestival.
Website Merano International WineFestival

The National Peanut Festival (NPF) -- the nation's largest peanut festival -- is held each fall to honor peanut growers and to celebrate the harvest season. The fairgrounds are located on Highway 231 South -- just three miles south of the Ross Clark Circle. The festivities include numerous fun-filled family events, such as amusement rides, animal acts, agricultural displays, live music concerts, beauty pageants, arts & crafts displays, contests, food, a two-hour parade, of course, tons of peanuts
Website National Peanut Festival

17th International Exhibition for machinery, equipment and ingredients for the food processing Industry. Agroprodmash is the only Russian trade fair that has been demonstrating all stages of agricultural raw materials processing, food production and sale since 1996.
Website Agroprodmash

Celebrating its 41st year in 2012, the Festival attracts over 300,000 people who come to view Fine Arts and Arts & Crafts from over 200 artists during the four day Festival. Two stages offer continuous musical entertainment while the little one's attention is captured in the Children's Activity Village where they create their own "art" and participate in other fun-filled activities
Info Annual National Shrimp Festival

The Festival will feature a wide array of world-class wine, premium spirits, import and micro-brewed beer, and an assortment of local culinary creations in a fun, social, and relaxed atmosphere. With large halls and more exhibitors - you don't want to miss the most delicious event of the year
Website Calgary Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival

The star of the festival is beer. Not just any beer, but great beer. We're assembling a selection of beer from across the U.S. and the world. Nowhere else in South Florida will you be able to sample this many beers at one location. Grovetoberfest is dedicated to expanding the craft beer world in South Florida and that begins with providing a variety of beer to beer lovers
Website Grovetoberfest

The Autumn Wine Festival is produced in conjunction and sanctioned by the Maryland Wineries Association and is the only one of its kind in the Salisbury area, this event offers wine tastings (included with admission), wine by the glass and bottle purchases from 21 incredible Maryland wineries, a variety of arts and crafts, live music performances, and tasty regional cuisine.
Website Autumn Wine Festival

Over 50 taco teams will throw down tens of thousands of tacos to event attendees while submitting competition tacos to the National Taco Association judges. Some familiar parts of the fiesta will return: lucha libre wrestling, the famed tequila expo, live surf music, cooking demonstrations, and $2 tacos everywhere you look. But new this year: a mariachi contest, flair bartending challenge, offal taco throwdown (or throw-up?!), oh, and a second day! You can now enjoy icy margaritas and spicy tacos all weekend long. Nearly 10 acres of taco crazy await you. Taking place entirely on cool, green grass, the event is well on its way to becoming the hottest party/culinary event in Arizona
Website Arizona Taco Festival

FruVeg Expo Shanghai 2012, which covers all links ranging from the production to the service of fruit and vegetable industries, provides golden opportunities for the professionals of fruit and vegetable trade and related logistics companies to exhibit their products and technologies and, at the same time, promote their corporate image. During the Expo, the exhibitors are able to bring their products here and contact with professional international procurers face to face. Shanghai FruVeg Expo can be said one of the most important channels for the trade negotiation of Chinese fruit and vegetable market
Website FruVeg Expo Shanghai

This year's event promises to bring even more of what Maine is renowned for - delectably delicious culinary creations from Maine's top chefs and producers who take pride in presenting products that are locally grown and responsibly harvested. The harvest season is a very special time on the coast of Maine, enjoy an amazing array of food and beverage tastings, educational sessions, and some fun and entertaining surprises
Website Harvest on the Harbor

The Edmonton Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival returns to the Shaw Conference Centre for its 11th year. Indulge at the 2012 Festival as you sample an impressive selection of premium wines, spirits, and import and micro-brewed beer, as well as cuisine from an assorted group of Edmonton's top restaurants and hotels. Guests can enjoy a mouthwatering array of beverage samples and Edmonton's top eats within a fun, relaxed, and social atmosphere. You don't want to miss this fun and diverse Festival.
Info Edmonton Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival

The Feast has 150 food stalls, an outdoor market, a busy beer tent and, new for this year, the Feast cocktail and champagne bar and a Vegan café. Our Cocktail and Champagne Bar is the place to party all weekend. Sample cocktails made from local ingredients as well as classic mixes, or sip a glass of champers. You choose. Lovely local seafood will be on sale here too. With video projections and DJs it will be hard to miss and you will find it on the quayside. You will find the Vegan Café in St John's Church Hall on Rosehill Street. And hurry - they are offering free brunch and afternoon tea. Eating out? Food from the cafes and restaurants of North Wales' five rural counties will be celebrated in our Rural Food Tent
Website Gwledd Conwy Feast

PA Gourmet is more than a food and wine show. It's a premier gourmet and entertaining experience showcasing the best in food, wine, spirits, beer and party hosting ideas. Attendees will learn what to pair, how to prepare and why presentation is so important.
Indulge your senses in:
• Cooking demos
• Celebrity appearances
• Wine, beer and spirits tasting
• Culinary sampling
• Specialty shopping
• Hosting tips
• Outdoor grilling techniques
• Kitchen design
Website PA Gourmet

The Fredericksburg Food and Wine Fest will be in its 22nd year in 2012. Held in downtown Fredericksburg, Texas, on Marktplatz (the 100 block of West Main Street). It is a full-course celebration of Texas food, 25 wineries, 100 different wines, 50 specialty booths, food court, music and fun for all
Website Taste Texas

Designed for chocolate lovers of all ages, this delectable event will feature tempting chocolate tastings from more than 30 vendors, celebrity chef demonstrations, vendor and amateur competitions, contests, raffle baskets, children's activities and many opportunities for holiday shopping. This spectacular event will tempt your palate and indulge your chocolate cravings to your absolute delight and satisfaction. Cincinnati Chocolate Festival vendors will be taking over the Cintas Center's Concourses this year with plenty of aisle way to roam and stop for a sample, 10 x 6 booths, and a circular flow floor plan. LIVE Demo's and Competition Judging will take place in the Banquet room with 2 stages and ample seating for all
Website Cincinnati Chocolate Festival

After the successful establishment of Sweet & SnackTec Middle East the show will again be running concurrent to Sweets & Snacks Middle East. The duo of trade fairs will take place in Dubai from and will cover the entire value chain, from production all the way to the end product. This unique business platform provides the rapidly growing market for confectionery and snack items in the MENA region with a broad scope for sourcing food and packaging opportunities at the same time
Website Sweet & SnackTec Middle East

WorldFood Ukraine is the international exhibition of producers and distributors of food, drinks, ingredients and equipment. The exhibition is oriented to the leading specialists of food retail industry, representatives of large and middle business.
Website WorldFood Ukraine

HHF 2012 is the second edition of the event designed to serve the dynamic and diversifying hotel, hospitality, tourism and food businesses of South Asia. Supported by Sri Lanka's leading hotel and tourism bodies, HHF Sri Lanka 2012 is welcomed as the proven business-to-business event that the Region needs at this time of growth, change and rising standards in the sector. Sri Lanka alone has about doubled its tourism arrivals over the last two years and expects to exceed one million visitors in 2012, creating huge demand for hotel rooms, hospitality services and new-to-market food products. HHF Sri Lanka is the market place for regional networking and sales, plus a new sourcing base for Sri Lankan and other products. More than a trade show, HHF Sri Lanka is also defined by its prestige Salon Culinaire programme - a competition showcasing the culinary skills of Sri Lanka's hotels - plus other live features.
Website Hotel, Hospitality & Food Sri Lanka

The International Dairy Cattle Show, celebrating its 67 edition, is today the most important european exhibition in the husbandry field and it is certainly one of the major events at global level. In the last edition of the International Dairy Cattle Show, the number of professional visitors increased by 15%, and it reached the 87% of the total. The number of professional visitors from abroad is always increasing (+20% in the last edition).
Particularly numerous were the groups coming from Finnland, Argentina, Spain, Germany and France but there were also many visitors from the US and the Far East.
!nfo International Dairy Cattle Show

Today, Italian pig breeding is in a tight spot; it is necessary to bring out all the problems afflicting the sector and to find out the best tools to solve them. Italpig is the only exhibition in Italy which, besides presenting all the best technologies and equipment for pig breeding, deals with the most important themes of the field trying to offer concrete solutions to professionals.
Info Italpig

The Caribbean region is internationally renowned for the heritage, authenticity & quality of its rum. Over time the region has also developed a range of unique beers, many of which seldom leave the shores of their home country. The Caribbean Rum & Beer Festival brings together a selection of fabulous regional and international rum and beer products to share with an appreciative audience from across the globe.
The 3rd Caribbean Rum & Beer Festival takes place the Grenada Cultural Centre in Grand Anse, just a stones throw away from one of the best beaches in the Caribbean.
Website Caribbean Rum and Beer Festival

The Carolina BrewMasters have always been dedicated to helping the local community.
During the 12 years of hosting the festival, the Carolina BrewMasters have donated over $280,000 to local charities
This year a limited quantity of three different tickets is available for admission:
• GENERAL allows entrance to the festival at 2 PM.
• PREMIUM allows entrance to the festival at 1 PM.
• Designated Driver tickets.
General and Premium ticket holders will receive:
• A Collectible 5-oz. Charlotte Oktoberfest Tasting Glass.
• Your selection of samples from over 350 of the finest craft brewed beers in the Southeast and from around the world. (see the brewers page!)
• Souvenir event guide with an improved map to help you navigate to your next selection.
Designated Driver ticket holders will receive:
• Free food/snacks and non-alcoholic beverages at the Designated Driver tent.
All ticket holders will enjoy:
• Live entertainment on the big stage.
• The chance to put your skills to the test on games like table tennis, foosball, corn hole and many others in the Creative Loafing Beerlympic Village.
• Food vendors serving some of the tastiest brats, hot dogs, pretzels, and more
Website Charlotte Oktoberfest

National Curry Week was started in 1998 to promote the cuisine and to raise funds for charities concentrating on hunger, malnourishment and poverty. During the week, curry lovers can get out and visit their local curry houses, some of which will be staging special events and fun challenges.
Now in its 15th year, National Curry Week 2012 again invites not only curry restaurants, caterers, pubs, canteens etc, all over Britain but also the curry loving public who wish to dine at home with a takeaway or a prepared meal. We invite both the dine in and dine out sectors to celebrate the cuisine and culture with special dinners, record-breaking attempts, raffles, auctions and, where possible, to contribute to the alleviation of poverty and suffering in South Asia and worldwide
Website National Curry Week

"Las Vegas' 2nd Annual Asian Food Festival & Trade Show" is a three-day cultural event to promote a greater understanding of Asian countries and cultures to the general public. This event is expected to be the largest Asian community event in Las Vegas with an expected attendance of over 40,000 within the three (3) day festival, among them Asian community and business leaders, local & international celebrities, opinion shapers and prominent government officials from the State of Nevada & throughout the United States.
Website Asian Food Festival

Produced by the Calaveras Winegrape Alliance, the Calaveras Grape Stomp, held in conjunction with the Gold Rush Street Faire, is a unique, fun-filled day for the whole family. At the Grape Stomp teams of two, a Swabber and a Stomper, have exactly three minutes to try and stomp the most juice out of a measured amount of real wine grapes. Prizes are awarded to all the winners, and there are special prizes for the top finishers in the Championship Stomp.
Website Calaveras Grape Stomp

Cranberry Fest has something for everyone - arts and crafts, cranberry food sales, a bakery, entertainment, Cranberry Fest Souveniers, fitness events and more.
With more than 40,000 people attending the festival annually, this event is one of the highlights of the fall season in Eagle River. How about taking home some fresh locally grown cranberries or craisins? Approximately 10,000 pounds of premium select cranberries will be sold during the festival event. Cookbooks are also available to learn new and unique ways to use cranberries.
Website Eagle River Cranberry Fest

Crave Sydney Food Festival is an annual celebration of Sydney's unique lifestyle, offering 31 days of authentic food, entertainment and outdoor. The festival offers extraordinary food experiences in unique Sydney locations, in all corners the city and across the State.
Website Crave Sydney Food Festival

Now into its 12th successive year, the Malaysia International Gourmet Festival made its debut in September 2001 with an intrepid band of 13 restaurants from Kuala Lumpur taking part in the inaugural KL International Gourmet Festival (KLIGF).
From the onset it was obvious that fine dining restaurants could not flourish on tourist receipts alone. What was needed before anything else was a strong base of local diners. However, a decade ago most Malaysians perceived fine dining restaurants as being poor value, high priced and stifling. While they enjoyed eating out, their overriding preference was for the traditional no frills restaurants and hawker stalls.
It became clear that to popularise fine dining, it had to appeal to a lot more people. It needed to provide better value and be better marketed with an emphasis that paying the extra for a pleasant fine dining ambience, high quality cuisine and first class service was well worth it. And to attract new diners the whole experience had to be far less intimidating, more relaxed and a lot more pleasurable. These observations were what shaped the Organiser's approach to the Festival.
That maiden Festival in 2001 was initiated in response to the industry's need for zest and a rejuvenation of the then very obscure fine dining scene. Though Malaysians have always enjoyed dining out, their overriding preference was for traditional restaurants and hawker food. Only a few fine dining restaurants existed for the simple reason there was not a large enough base of local diners to draw upon.
Each year from then on, during the Festival, restaurants put aside their competitive differences, share contacts and come together in a collective marketing effort. Rather than bringing in chefs from abroad for a one-off food promotion, the Festival's unwavering focus is on the skills of the world-class chefs already residing in Malaysia and the all-year-round quality of our cuisine and restaurants.
Website Malaysia International Gourmet Festival

The Canberra International Riesling Challenge, attracting wines from Riesling producing countries around the world, is the most significant event of its type in the southern hemisphere. Judging is conducted on a regional basis and is designed to promote and explore the regional differences that Riesling so well expresses. 2012 sees the introduction of the internationally recognised 100 point judging system which will align the CIRC with other major international wine events.
Website Canberra International Riesling Challenge

The London Restaurant Festival is designed to raise the profile of establishments involved and acknowledge the pleasure and sustenance given to all by London's extraordinarily diverse range of restaurants.
The festival will comprise of two main elements: Events and Festival Menus. There will also be a section of Side Orders - where individual restaurants will be encouraged and supported in devising activities with direct appeal to their own market.
Website London Restaurant Festival

Started in 1985, the festival was designed to help farmers with the raising and selling of pumpkins. The festival attracts attention from throughout the region. The festival features a variety of activities aimed at famiglie
Website West Virginia Pumpkin Festival

Appleumpkin Westfest located at the west end of town includes general, food and activity vendors, as well as activities including inflatables, kids games and more! A chili cook-off, waterball tournament and antique tractor show are just a few of the highlights planned for this year's event. The festival is held in conjunction with Kapnick Orchard's Apple Festival. You can take a short drive out to the apple orchard and enjoy fresh apples, cider and donuts. Wagon rides, a petting zoo, children's talent show, and over 80 craft booths are just some of the highlights at the Kapnick Orchard's Apple Festival.
Website Tecumseh's Appleumpkin Festival & Westfest

Restaurants and food vendors who specialize in small operations are the highlight of this great event - mom & pop kitchens churning out their family recipes
Website World Food Festival

This is the 43rd annual Bloomfield Apple Festival,one of the best small town fall festivals in Southern Indiana, it features carnival rides, food and merchandise vendors, live music, various contests (such as a baking contest, baby contest, pedal tractor contest), a quilt auction, art exhibit, 5k Run, wiffle ball tournament, live demonstrations, and more, A great time for all ages
Website Bloomfield Apple Festival

This is a two-day event with many features and offerings: the festival has authentic ethnic food booths, cultural exhibits, live performances of international music and dancing, a bazaar of authentic ethnic items, a parade, special entertainment for children, ethnic art and craft demonstration and even fireworks. Brazil will be the host country this year
Website Ethnic Expo

The Festival offers a unique opportunity to celebrate and explore India's diverse culture and traditions, including authentic regional food, arts, crafts, and entertainment.
At the Festival of India you can sample many different varieties of Indian cuisine, including vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies, such as dosa, kachori, samosas, tandoori chicken and sweets, all of which are supplied by local Indian restaurants and families, and prepared fresh in front of patrons
Website Festival of India

Over 45 of Heathcote's wine producers showcasing some of Australia's best Shiraz (and other vareties) in one place over one great weekend - must be Shiraz Heaven.
Heathcote Showgrounds It's a Festival of great wines - our signature Shiraz of course, but there's also numerous other excellent varietal wines including Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Sangiovese, Tempranillo, Viognier. Marsanne and Chardonnay. Like to learn more about Heathcote wines - take one of our Tasting Seminars hosted by Robert Hicks. To accompany all this great wine we have a wide range of delicious food and produce from local and regional exhibitors. And, while you're tasting, drinking and eating there's live music, and for family groups there's entertainment for the kids.
Website The Heathcote Wine and Food Festival

More than 200 vendors, consisting of arts and crafts, antiques, and food booths, add excitement to this festive occasion. Attend this event, and let the award winning cheese and wine tantalize your taste buds. More than 200 artists and crafters come from all over the United States to bring new, creative and beautiful things for you to enjoy. Professional entertainment and a community stage of local performers provide an upbeat atmosphere for the young and young at heart. This irresistible street festival is a great event for the whole family.
Website Riverbank Cheese & Wine Expo

The Colorado Pork & Hops Challenge has become one of the top annual events in Western Colorado. The 2012 Challenge kicks off with over 13,000 people coming out for this All-American Family Festival which includes a professional KCBS BBQ competition where over 50 professional BBQ teams from all over the country flock to Grand Junction to compete for over $20,500 in cash and bragging rights. An Amatuer BBQ competition for local contestants will also take place for anyone who thinks their BBQ is the best in the city. There will also be BBQ tasting as well as activities for the whole family. Several food vendors will be serving up award winning lip smackin' BBQ and other festival favorites. Ice cold Budweiser through out the event and tons of live bands will be performing as cap off the event Saturday night with a great headliner band (TBA).
Website Colorado Pork N Hops Challenge

A major event in and around Parma to get to know and try the very best ham from Parma as well as appreciating the touristic and cultural beauties of the places. The Parma Ham Festival, now in its 15th year, will again this year be coordinated by Fiere di Parma and proves to be an international showcase for a high quality Italian product with allied industries involving 160 producing companies, 5,000 pig farms and 3,000 employees for a total turnover of 1.5 billion euros. As usual, one of the initiative's main events will be Open Doors, where the ham factories will open their doors to the public, granting the possibility to see the processing cycle and take part in free tastings.
Parma Ham Festival is also an occasion to visit the production areas and discover how the product is made: free visits will be organised to the ham factories of the municipalities involved, also by shuttle buses to discover how Parma Ham is made. The producers will illustrate the production secrets of the pig legs that, due to a magical combination of climate, tradition and passion, become Parma Hams. An organized bus shuttle service will be available for tourists to take them to the companies taking part in the initiative.
One must is a visit to the Parma Ham and Deli Meats Museum, created in the heart of the ancient Cattle Market in Langhirano, another is to try Parma Ham accompanied by the best wines, which will be possible all over the territory.
Numerous initiatives will be enlivening the hills near Parma with dinners organised in villages, street theatre, stalls selling typical products, painting exhibitions, and moments of comic relief. Last of all, for the entire period of the Festival, there will be special menus in local restaurants and farm holiday centres.
There will be a full calendar of events: appointments with gastronomy, entertainment and culture. Sports activities, musical evenings, initiatives for children and much, much more.
Website Parma Ham Festival

Food Products, Food Processing, Grain Milling and Packaging Technology Exhibition
Web site India FoodEx

TomatoFest is back for another year of great food, fresh local produce, terrific entertainment, activities for children of all ages, creative crafts, and valuable information from nonprofit organizations. The money raised at Tomatofest this year will enable local food pantries to provide more than 10,000 meals to Cayuga County residents. Approximately 50% of those meals go toward feeding young families and youth
Website TomatoFest

Over the last 20 years, World Food Moscow has grown to become a major meeting place for the food and drinks industry and a vibrant source of products for the Russian market. Exhibitors are grouped in nine main sectors, ensuring visitors can easily find products of interest, compare them and talk to their manufacturers. WorldFood Moscow attracts a huge audience of 60,000, which includes wholesalers, distributors, retailers and restaurateurs. This means that exhibitors can fulfil two major objectives at the same time: they can find a reliable distributor, whilst also gauging demand for their product in this evolving market. Over just four days, exhibitors see thousands of visitors and develop partnerships which will see their products stocked in shops and supermarkets all over Russia. It's a prime opportunity for suppliers to pitch themselves against their competitors and demonstrate their strength in the market.
Website World Food Moscow

The Food Evolution Summit features the ideal peer-to-peer networking environment for Top Level Executives in New Product Development (NPD), Research and Development (R & D), Innovation and many other related fields within the food industry
Website Food Evolution Summit

Enjoy a magical evening under the enchantment of a starry sky, a babbling plaza fountain, graceful white tents and dancing twinkle lights as you travel back in time to the elegance of the 1940's Rat Pack era. Partake of specialty martinis, epicurean delights from regional restaurants and live big band swing music as we celebrate Martinez's claim to fame, the Martini
Website Martinis on the Plaza

Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at the Tradex Exhibition Centre. EAT! Fraser Valley encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities. Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where visitors can sip and taste a wide selection of beverages. The Grapes and Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings by numerous local and regional beer and wine experts.
While at the Fraser Valley Food Show, visitors will also enjoy shopping in the marketplace of over 100 exhibit booths. Producers, manufacturers, retailers and food artisans will showcase a wide assortment of unique products for eating, drinking, cooking, entertaining, and outfitting a kitchen. Visitors to the Fraser Valley Food Showwill especially enjoy the variety of locally grown and produced specialty food items that are not usually found in grocery stores and supermarkets.
Website EAT! Fraser Valley

Enjoy more than 100 events including winery tours and tastings, concerts, Niagara cuisine, wine seminars, live entertainment and one of Canada's largest street parades during the 61st Niagara Wine Festival. The hub of the Niagara Wine Festival can be found in historic Montebello Park in downtown St. Catharines. Wines can be purchased by the sample, glass or bottle.
Website Niagara Wine Festival

The event is famous for it amazing Chilli Eating Competition and the National Chilli Awards. Highlights include breaking the world record jalapeno-eating in 60 seconds of 16 (the 17th was discounted) by ChileFoundry's The Lurch
Website Fiery Foods UK Chilli Festival

The first Oktoberfest was held in the year 1810 in honor of the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig's marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The festivities began on October 12, 1810 and ended on October 17th with a horse race. In the following years, the celebrations were repeated and, later, the festival was prolonged and moved forward into September.
On Saturday, September 22nd, the Schottenhamel tent is the place to be, if you want to catch the official opening ceremonies. At noontime, 12pm, the lord mayor of Munich will have the honor of tapping the first keg of Oktoberfest beer. Once the barrel has been tapped, all visitors will then be allowed to quench their thirst. It pays to arrive early in order to experience the festivities up close and personal and it's quite common for visitors to come around 9am to secure good seats. Everybody can enter the Oktoberfest and all of the tents for free. Because of numerous injuries from scrapes to deep cuts from broken glass, no more glass-bottles are allowed at the Oktoberfest any more.

Website Oktoberfest

Virginia Wine Festival is the oldest wine festival on the East Coast. Each year, the festival features 50 of VA's best wineries, craft exhibitors, seminars, and incredible music. At the Virginia Wine Festival you can celebrate and taste from more than 300 Virginia Vintages plus attend seminars on tasting, pairing, and winemaking, all at a beautiful outdoor venue while shopping and listening to authentic sounds of stellar regional performers.
Website Virginia Wine Festival

International Exhibition for the Sweet & Confectionery, Bakery, Snack Food and Ice Cream Industry. The event has become a major trade platform and information hub for local and foreign wholesalers, distributors, exporters & importers, retailers and even end-users. Covering about 9,000 square meters of exhibition space housing 150 exhibitors from 18 countries and regions including China, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Italy, Russia, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Turkey, Indonesia, US, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the 8th Sweets & Snacks China which presented over 300 brands to more than 8,000 professional buyers and trade visitors closed recently at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center (INTEX) in China.
Website Sweets & Snacks China

BioFach has been enthusiastic about organically produced food for many years. This exhibition highlight offers you a variety of themes, perspectives and impulses for promoting the organic food industry worldwide. Meet the doers and thinkers and become part of the international organic family. All the organic food exhibited is certified to the EU Organic Regulation or the accreditation directives of IFOAM, the patron of BioFach.
Website BioFach America - All Things Organic

This upcoming September 14-16, 2012 marks the 11th anniversary of the Miami International Wine Fair - one of the leading wine trade shows in the United States. Off the heels of a very successful 10th anniversary in 2011, this year anticipates to see thousands of visitors from around the country, including distributors from every state, major retail chains and a vast number of local restaurateurs / independent wine shops all in search of exciting products to add to their portfolios. Conversely, an estimated 300 wineries representing 16 countries from around the world - seeking new wholesale channels to sell their wines - are expected to exhibit. The Miami International Wine Fair provides the perfect platform to meet real buyers seeking new products to represent. Last year alone more than 150 importers, distributors and retail chains from 50 states participated in the "Buyers' Program", which guaranteed exhibitors over 2,000 pre-scheduled meetings with qualified, pre-selected buyers.
Exhibitors saw an increased presence from France, Spain, Italy, Argentina and Chile - making up nearly 80 percent of the Fair grounds. Wineries from South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Portugal, Brazil, Canada and California also benefited from the little competition they found in their respective categories. Overall, participating producers expressed a 95% customer satisfaction rate, the highest in MIWF's history and a difficult target to achieve for trade shows in any sector.
Website Miami International Wine Fair

Each September, Galway City comes alive with seafood & oysters as it celebrates the Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival, the most internationally recognised food festival in Ireland and the world's longest running International Oyster Festival
Throughout the festival, a host of tantalising events to whet your appetite will take place, including; a seafood trail in some of Galway city's finest restaurants, Taste of the Sea/Blas na Mara - showcasing Galway's seafood heroes, the Bollinger National Oyster Opening Championship, The Food village at The Festival Marquee, the World Oyster Opening Championship with Guinness, a Mardi Gras event through the streets of Galway and the Festival Finale with family activities, kids fancy dress, live music, cooking demonstrations, 'Hot Oyster Awards' cooking challenge, Irish Coffee making and jive & jazz.
Website Galway International Oyster & Seafood Festival

Where coffee & tea business happens. Coffee Fest has been serving the specialty coffee and gourmet tea industries since 1992. Viewed by most as the best show in America and around the worlds specifically for coffee retailing coffee, Coffee Fest continues to evolve and stay at the forefront of emerging trends.
If it looks like coffee, smells like coffee, goes well with coffee or is coffee you will find it at Coffee Fest. Everything under the sun that would be found in an upscale coffee shop on either side of the counter including the counter would be found on the exhibition floor at Coffee Fest. The best coffee retail education, training and workshops are found at Coffee Fest.
Info Coffee Fest Seattle

Terra meaning "of the earth" and Vita meaning "life," captures in its definition the very spirit of this event. Over the last few years, TerraVITA Food & Wine Event has brought together some of the finest biodynamic and organically-grown wines and microbrews in the world with some of the very best North Carolina chefs, known and celebrated for their outstanding reputations and chosen for their devotion and allegiance to locally-grown ingredients. Each year, this highly anticipated event has grown to include more producers, expanded seminars, and exclusive culinary experiences. TerraVITA 2012 will offer a stellar line-up of the best chefs, from the coast to the mountains of North Carolina, and unite their amazing food with select beverages produced by some of the best craftsmen in the world.
Website TerraVITA

The first Taste Cumbria Food Festival was in 2010 and saw Cockermouth's shops, restaurants, hotels and pubs join forces in the weekend-long Cumbrian culinary celebrations. We are now in our third year of Taste Cumbria and 2012 looks to be the biggest festival yet. Not only are we offering workshops, courses, foraging days, menu planning, kid's activities and tastings, but more businesses and producers than ever before are taking part. Famous names and chefs will be sharing their talents and secrets and we will be offering the warmest and tastiest welcome to locals and visitors alike.
Our objectives remain the same: to position Cumbria as a world class food tourism destination; provide a high quality food tourism experience; improve visitors' access to and awareness of Cumbria's local produce, food heroes and food culture; and stimulate demand for Cumbrian produce and quality local dining experiences.
Website Taste Cumbria Food Festival

Over 10,000 candy lovers are expected to attend. There will be tasty treat vendors showcasing Candy, Chocolate, Cupcakes, and Desserts, joined by award winning food trucks, celebrity chefs, and 15 acres of candy-themed experiences. Also, great live music and the Kid's Fun Zone that includes activities, games, and attractions for kids of all ages.
Website California Candy Festival

Festa Italiana actually is a week-long series of events held the last week of September and culminating in a major Italian Festival at Seattle Center. Since 1988, Festa Italiana has been celebrating the cultural roots of Italians and Italian-Americans in the Pacific Northwest by promoting the arts, the food and the culture that are uniquely Italian. highlights include Celebrity Chef headlining a great schedule of cooking demos, two performances daily of Sicilian puppetry by the Carter Family Marionettes and a Grape Stomping competition which as to be seen to be believed! By popular demand, the Food Court & Vendor Market has been expanded as well.
Website Festa Italiana Seattle

Over the course of three days, 49,000 attendees will sample beer from approximately 580 U.S. breweries at the 31st annual Great American Beer Festival (GABF). As America's premier beer festival and competition, GABF represents the largest ticketed beer event in the country, bringing together the brewers and beers that make the U.S. the world's most diverse brewing nation. About half of today's 2,000 plus breweries are considered brewpubs, and this year's GABF recognizes that trend with a brand new Brewpub Pavilion, located in the central area of the festival hall. The pavilion will include approximately 24 breweries representing all regions of the country and will be set up to replicate the brewpub atmosphere that craft beer enthusiasts enjoy, including seating and bite-sized snacks available for purchase. With some changes to the festival floor plan, GABF will have 110 more breweries pouring their beers in the hall this year, which is a 23 percent increase over 2011.
This year's GABF competition will feature a brand new "Fresh Hop Ale" category. The addition of this category signifies not only growing interest in this beer style, but also increased appreciation in the role of beer ingredients. One of the most renowned competitions in the industry and recognized worldwide as a symbol of brewing excellence, the GABF competition honors 84 beer style categories with gold, silver and bronze medals. In 2012, an estimated 4,300 beers will be judged by an expected 185 judges from across the globe. The Farm to Table Pavilion returns for a fourth year, bringing together chefs and craft brewers from across the country to serve small plates paired with special release beers that aren't available in the festival hall. The Beer & Food Pavilion also returns with demonstrations featuring expert chefs and brewers.
Website Great American Beer Festival

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The best of Italian culture comes together at Chicago's Italian Expo Renaissance, the city's hottest and most exclusive cultural event in town. The who's who of Italian fashion, food, wine and design will be showing off in true Italian style for 3 days.
Top chefs duel it out to prove themselves in cooking competitions, rising fashion designers strut their stuff on the catwalk and companies and vendors from Italy and the U.S. will display and sell their products, straight from Italy. Savor Italian cuisine at the Expo -- rich cheeses, cured meats, gooey melted panini and arancini, a Sicilian specialty best described as rice croquettes. Sip fine wines from sparkling golden Prosecco to full and fruity ruby-red Chianti.
Website Italian Expo

The Niagara Food Festival celebrates its 19th anniversary. Known as "The Peninsula's Tastiest Party," the Niagara Food Festival features a mouth watering assortment of tastes from a diverse group of vendors. Local growers and producers are showcased in the Experience Niagara Market, live musical performers entertain all weekend long and cooking demonstrations highlight the Mobile Culinary Theatre.
Website Niagara Food Festival

The Epcot International Food & Wine Festival is an autumn special event that transforms Epcot Theme Park into a food and wine lover's paradise with specialty food items, culinary events, sophisticated parties and live musical entertainment. From tasty tapas and refreshing beverages to celebrity chef demonstrations and rock star performances, there's something to satisfy most every taste and interest. hroughout the festival, delight in outstanding food, fun and entertainment. Festival highlights include:
• Nearly 30 international food and beverage Marketplaces
• Signature dining experiences with celebrated chefs
• Party for the Senses-a spectacular tribute to the sensory arts
• Culinary demonstrations and wine seminars
• The Eat to the Beat concert series, with nightly musical performances from popular hit-makers
Info Epcot International Food & Wine Festival

Sonoma County Harvest Fair is a celebration of harvest featuring three full days of wine tasting with 150+ wineries, wine sales, chef demonstrations, microbrew tasting (Saturday only), farm and harvest agricultural activities for children and adults, the World Championship Grape Stomp, continuous live jazz, an art show, crafters pavilion, farm animals to meet, and much more
Website Sonoma County Harvest Fair

The first consumer show of its kind in North America dedicated to those who crave to experience everything that's decadent and delicious. It's a one-of-a-kind event catering to baking enthusiasts and everybody with a "sweet tooth". Expect to see, smell, taste and savour the best offerings of Canada's baking and sweets universe. Come and discover a cornucopia of cakes - wedding cakes, specialty cakes, theme cakes, desserts, pies and the latest cupcake phenomenon all under one roof. Exhibitors finally have a platform to showcase world class talent found within Canada. The crème de la crème of creativity will compete at the booth level and at the stage-level in front of adoring crowds. Not to be outdone will be the amateur sensations that bake for the passion of it. Businesses offering cake decorating and baking supplies will demonstrate the latest bakeware and technologies. Home bakers can one-stop-shop for their long sought after baker's kitchen and appliances.
Website Canada's Baking and Sweets Show

The Smokin in Mesquite BBQ Championship is one of the biggest prize purses in the west. Come and enjoy great competition and a down home weekend in the great city of Mesquite, Nevada at the CasaBlanca Resort
Website Smokin in Mesquite BBQ Championship

The festival not only features a street fair with arts & crafts vendors but it includes continuous live musical entertainment, apple growers and their apples, children's & youth activities, special exhibits & open houses, food, and, to top it all off, on Labor Day, the King Apple Parade. Capture the spirit of a hometown celebration that has something for the whole family, with many individual events and entertainers throughout the festival.
Many of the growers also feature items such as fried apple pies, apple cakes, apple butter and apple cider at the Festival
Website North Carolina Apple Festival

Over 500,000 people make the four-day Festival their Labor Day Weekend celebration and enjoy the offerings of over 50 area food establishments, 270 marketplace artisans and vendors, six entertainment stages, and educational programs promoting the diverse cultural and western heritage of the region - all for no admission fee. Delight your taste buds with creations from Colorado's favorite restaurant and food establishments. Enjoy appetizers, entrées, and desserts in full-sized portions with friends or in small portions by yourself. Discover ethnic specialties or indulge in your traditional favorites. An elegant Fine Dining Area is showcased, highlighting gourmet cuisine from renowned chefs and offering daily cooking demonstrations.
Website A Taste of Colorado

An epicurean event unlike any other, Sonoma Wine Country Weekend combines the elegance, sophistication, and style of Taste of Sonoma at MacMurray Ranch, with the festivity, frivolity and fundraising of the Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction at Cline Cellars for three unforgettable days of celebration. More than 170 wineries and 60 chefs offer their wines and food for sampling at Taste of Sonoma, which also includes wine seminars, chef demonstrations, vineyard experiences and a top chef competition
Website Sonoma Wine Country Weekend

The Taste is a three-day gastronomic adventure featuring five events that will highlight distinct aspects of food culture in Southern California. The events feature unlimited food and drink tastings from more than 40 of the area's top restaurants, cooking and mixology demonstrations, wine seminars and panel discussions. The festival is designed to target everyone from true gastronomes and wine enthusiasts, to those who just want to get out of the house and experience an unparalleled day/night/weekend of food and entertainment.
Website The Taste

Taking over the whole Southbank Centre site the Real Food Festival will be showcasing some of the finest small producers in the country plus the best street food vendors on the scene, chef demos, live animals and music!
From hand-made chocolates to the finest artisan cheeses, chutneys, proper sausages, olive oils, charcuterie, regional specialities and delights and the most creative street food vendors - the Real Food Festival celebrates the very best, passion-driven sustainably and ethically produced food.
Info Real Food Festival

Everything from garlic ice cream to garlic jelly, pickled garlic, roasted garlic, garlic braids and, of course, plain garlic bulbs of every variety will be available for sampling and purchase, along with planting and braiding and cooking demonstrations. Come early to enjoy breakfast, served by Peppermills of Bennington.
For aspiring gardeners, garlic growers, garlic-lovers or those simply looking for a fun way to spend a Vermont end-of-summer day, the event promises something for everyone.
For the kids there will be a hay maze, face painting, inflatable fun jumps and other great children's activities. Take time to wander around the spacious lawns sampling garlic delicacies and enjoy the festivities. Relax at the Beer and Wine Garden under the tent listening to live music both days.
Website Garlic and Herb Festival

Savor the flavors from over 20 of the area's best restaurants and chefs as they prepare scrumptious selections from their in-restaurant menus. While enjoying these culinary delights you can leisurely stroll the many acres of family activities and non-stop entertainment. With eight stages and over 100 live entertainment performances being planned we are certain you will have a great time in Hudson this Labor Day weekend.
Website Taste of Hudson

This year, Speciality & Fine Food Fair is set to be bigger than ever, giving local, regional and international suppliers the opportunity to showcase their products to key decision makers from the world of speciality food. In addition to over 600 exhibitors taking part, there will also be live cookery demonstrations by top chefs in the Fine Food Forum, educational seminars in the Small Business Forum sponsored by Cotswold Fayre, free one-to-one expert advice sessions in the Small Business Forum and an exclusive chance to taste winning products from the prestigious Great Taste Awards. With so much on offer, everyone from independent retailers, delis, hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars and leading importers, distributors and wholesalers will be flying in from around the globe to find out what's new in the world of speciality food. 2012 will also see the return of the popular Speciality Chocolate Fair, which runs alongside the main exhibition. The fair is the UK's only trade event dedicated to fine and artisan chocolate, providing a unique platform to showcase luxury and gourmet chocolate to top buyers. New to the programme this year is the UK Chocolate Masters Finals. In a bid to be crowned National Chocolate Master, chocolate artisans and pastry chefs will descend on the fair to showcase their creations. The winner will then go on to compete in the World Chocolate Masters in Paris, which has a reputation as the most challenging chocolate contest in the world.
Website Speciality & Fine Food Fair London

Fine Food has earned the reputation as Australia's only truly international event for the food industry. This is the place to find the newest and best products and sevices on offer and stay abreast of what's hot and happening in the industry.
Website Fine Food Australia

2012 marks the 10th year of Restaurant & Bar Hong Kong - bringing together more than 250 exhibiting companies and more than 14,000 retail decision-makers including owners and F&B Directors of the most prominent restaurants, hotels, clubs, bars, cafes as well as executive chefs, sommeliers and wine buyers.
Website Restaurant & Bar Hong Kong

It's the only annual international trade exhibition for fresh fruit and vegetable marketing in Asia which focuses exclusively on the fresh produce sector and related value chain for the whole Asian region. This makes it the most efficient platform in Asia for gaining an overview of the market, scouting for new products and varieties, and establishing new business contacts in this sector
Website Asia Fruit Logistica

The biggest in the Baltics food industry fair "Riga Food" yearly outlines the trends of the food industry development, highlights novelties and presents a number of serious and trustable enterprises. Everybody is welcome to Kipsala International Exhibition Centre to draw inspiration from diversity of menu ideas, to taste new products, to watch and enjoy professional chef, pastry cook and bartender competitions.
Website Riga Food

AsiaFood Expo is undeniably the most comprehensive food show in the country bringing in wide array of machines for packaging, food processing, high-tech food service equipment, sources of kitchen and baking equipment, manufacturers and distributors of food ingredients, specialized technical, production & food presentation, culinary activities, and cooking demonstrations.
Website Asia Food Expo - AFEX

LAFS is one of the most important food and beverage exhibits in Latin America.
This year LAFS will become the most visited show of this type, having the most number of attendees from all countries in Latin America. LAFS main objective is to offer an interesting mix of flavors and products from over 20 countries in the region by gathering in one place the exportable products and services from all around Latin America. During this seventh edition we will have a series of conferences and workshops for buyers, making LAFS the best choice to increase your sales throughout the Mexican and international markets.
Website Latin American Food Show

The nations largest great pizza entertainment with some of the best pizzas from around the globe.
Website PMQ's Orlando Pizza Show

Good living of Sana is coming back again: Food, Housing-Environment and Wellbeing. Food for good living satisfies new needs and proposes nutrition based on study and research: the expression of an aware relationship with environment.
Website Sana

The 7th annual event will include the KC BBQ Society sanctioned Junior World Championship competition and musical entertainment.
Website I love Barbeque Festival

The Fisherman's Feast is an annual event that began in Boston in 1910 and is based on a tradition that goes back to the 16th century in Sciacca Sicily. The Feast is based on the devotion of the fishermen from Sciacca to the Madonna del Soccorso (Our Lady of Help). When the fishermen immigrated to America in the early 1900's, they brought their traditions with them. Today's Feast is much the same as it was over 100 years ago with lights adorning the street and the smell of sausage in the air. The current Feast is organized by the descendants of those original immigrants and still includes a procession of the Madonna through the streets of the North End. Vendors sell not only Italian sausage but a variety of food and drink as well as arts and crafts.
Website Fisherman's Feast

The event celebrates the wild blueberry harvest. Events include live music, theatre, art exhibits, dances, farmers markets, teas, community suppers, pancake breakfasts, baking competitions, bake sales, quilt sales, pie eating contests, a 10km race, golf tournaments, a blueberry mash, exhibitions and more
Website Wild Blueberry Harvest Festival

Britain's Biggest Pub opens its doors for a five day festival on Tuesday 7th August. There will be over 800 different real ales, ciders and foreign beers for the expected 50,000 crowd to try. This fun event is not all about the beer though. There are a variety of different foods from around the world and music to enjoy. This event really is a beer drinker's paradise
Website Great British Beer Festival

In its third decade, the IDEAg Farmfest continues to connect industry leading manufacturers/providers with decision making producers. Farmfest is one of the Largest Agricultural Events in The World and it brings the best products and services to an audience that is drawn from every Minnesota county and has many visitors from five neighboring states.
- Farmfest connects 35,000+ attendees with over 625 local and leading companies in the farming industry.
- Farmfest Features highly topical educational and political forums highlighting topics relevant to the issues that face today's farmers.
- Presents successful field demonstrations which feature the latest technological advancements in the farming industry.
- New Features for 2013 a New Products Showcase, IDEAg Interconnectivity Conference on the connected farm and much more.
- Offers programs and entertainment for the entire family.
Farmfest strives to provide both the traditional programs that bring attendees back year after year while also offering new, dynamic events and programs which are designed both to entertain and entice new attendees.
Website Farmfest

Foods, beer & wine, live entertainment, over 30 restaurants, wineries, breweries at a magnificent sesaide setting.
Website Taste in San Pedro

Outdoors among the pines and showcasing the best microbreweries in the country and top blues performers
Website Mammoth Festival of Beers & Bluesapalooza

Cardigan River and Food Festival features lots of food, music, fun on the river, childrens activities and much more.
A weekend of fun for the whole family, with the normal Saturday festival being specially extended this year into the evening and Sunday - meaning even more music, entertainment, river activities, fun for the kids and food. We will be celebrating the River Teifi and the wonderful produce of the area with our chefs demonstrating their favouritte recipes and our stallholders offering a magnificent selection of locally produced food and drink.
Website Cardigan River & Food Festival

Every year this unique event brings mustard-lovers together from all around the globe. A varied crowd always gathers - some spicy, some some sweet; some exotic, some hot. With free hot dogs, live music, mustard games raising money for local charities, we paint the town yellow to celebrate the golden condiment with the summer's best family-friendly food festival in the Midwest. National Mustard Day is hosted annually on a typically fittingly bright yellow sunshiny day at the National Mustard Museum
Website National Mustard Day

Tons of free, hot, buttered, delicious Del Monte sweet corn will be the highlight of the 65th annual Sweet Corn Festival. The Mendota Area Chamber of Commerce is preparing for the gigantic undertaking of hosting over 60,000 visitors, who consume nearly 50 tons of sweet corn during the festival weekend.
Free musical entertainment is in abundance. The Crafters Market Place and flea market features over 200 dealers in hand made crafts and unique merchandise. There is a Queen Pageant, beer garden with live bands, grand parade and a carnival with rides and games for both adults and children, plus much more.
The midways are lined with food booths, featuring a multitude of ethnic, regional and festival foods, but the "BIG EVENT" is the serving of the free Del Monte sweet corn on Sunday afternoon. For over 60 years, it has been cooked to its golden goodness with the help of a vintage steam engine. The events take place primarily in the downtown area, and with the exception of the beer garden, have no admission fees or parking fees.
Website Mendota Sweet Corn Festival

Festival-goers will enjoy food from area restaurants and sample wines from 25 of the region's outstanding boutique wineries. In addition, there will be a chef demonstration area featuring a number of area restaurants. Admission to the event is free. Attendees can purchase a food and wine tasting pass for $25 and they will receive a wristband and a tasting glass. We will also have a beverage booth on-site where attendees can purchase individual beverages. Tickets will also be available onsite the day of the event. Ticket sales on the day of the event will be "Cash Only."
While tasting the gourmet fare, attendees will hear smooth jazz and classical music by the areas' best musicians. The Falkirk Cultural Center provides the perfect backdrop for this celebration of the region's food and wine.
Website San Rafael Food & Wine Festival

The Magnalonga is a food and drink walk of about seven miles. It starts and finishes in Ludlow: a journey where you combine a walk through unspoilt countryside with some of the best food and drink from the Marches.
The walk (it's leisurely and fun, not a race!) takes you up and down footpaths, tracks and quiet lanes through unspoilt countryside with fine views all around. This year, we'll be exploring country footpaths and quiet lanes between Ludlow and the countryside surrounding the town. There may well be stiles, steep hills and rough tracks to navigate.
During your journey, you make several stops for refreshment, at each of which you will partake of a course of a meal based mostly on the local produce of the area. At each stop your food will be washed down with local real ale, or traditional local perry or cider, or other drink with a local connection. You will also be given some bottled water.
Website Ludlow Magnalonga

The Festival will feature more than 160 top quality small independent food and drink producers from the Marches, the England-Wales border country, inside Ludlow Castle.
As well as the food producers, throughout Ludlow's historic town centre there is seemingly no end of food-related events, such as the famous Ludlow Sausage trail, Ale trail and the Festival Loaf trail, not forgetting all the old favourites both inside and outside the Castle, including great demonstrations, talks, pudding tastings, markets and more.
This was Britain's first successful food and drink festival when it started back in 1995. It's grown considerably since then, with large numbers of visitors from throughout the UK, as well as from overseas - but we've stayed firmly with our original idea of highlighting the great food and drink that is available in the Marches, and to have a great time
Website Ludlow Food Festival

Copenhagen Cooking 2012 presents its 8th edition of the Nordic food festival with lots of culinary adventures and amazing flavors. The goal is to create a festive frame for the Nordic food culture and celebrate Copenhagen as Scandinavia center for gastronomy and unique flavors. The festival is a tribute to the Danish and Nordic cuisine, industry, chefs art, culinary traditions and excellent ingredients.
Website Copenhagen Cooking

It's the Garlic Festival, it's in its 26th year, and it promises to be the best yet. The largest under-cover festival on the Island, its trademark is excellence in all things, not just garlic. Superlative acts, the very best of local produce, and high-quality arts and crafts. Lots and lots of food stalls, a tea tent, of course, together with an ale tent and cider bar, making this the most festive of festivals. Look out for the cookery demo's and tastings too
Website The Isle of Wight Garlic Festival

The International Food Blogger Conference is the premier event for food bloggers, with an emphasis on food, writing, and technology. Past conferences have featured engaging sessions by industry leading authors, chefs, bloggers and more.
Info International Food Bloggers Conference

Expo Comida Latina is North America's only trade event focused on bringing authentic, specialty, gourmet and mainstream products from around the globe to retail and foodservice buyers looking to meet the demands of today's Hispanic American U.S. population.
Website Expo Comida Latina

Run off the beer soaked days of Philly Beer Week at Dock Street Philly Beer Run & Music Fest! On Sunday, June 10thstarting at 2pm, Dock Street Brewery is your host for a 5K official timed run through University City ending with the annual free Music Fest. It's a celebration of Philly Beer Week, sublime music, the art of running, great food and how all of that is enhanced with delicious craft beer. The run is organized in partnership with Bryan Kolesar of The Brew Lounge.
Website Dock Street Philly Beer Run & Free Music Fest

What to expect...

THE BEERS. Dock Street's mouth-watering lineup includes Philly Beer Week exclusive Pimp My Rye, the summer release of our Beer Four All Seasons collaboration, Royal Bohemian Pilsner, and Johnny Berliner: a collaboration with Johnny Brenda's. Dock Street favorites Summer Session and Rye IPA on tap as well
THE RUN. The run kicks off at 2pm from Dock Street Brewery, loops through University City and ends with Dock Street's Annual Free Music Fest. Run participants receive beer, pizza, fruit, snacks, refreshments from Vita Coco, keepsake pint glass, chip timing and compete for beer prizes. Dock Street Flemish Red Sour Ale may or may not be among the prizes! First 50 registered runners receive a free tee shirt. Philadelphia Runner is the Official Equipment Headquarters and host for the Packet Pickup on Saturday June 9th from 11am- 2pm. Race day packet pickup begins at 12pm at Dock Street. A portion of the proceeds from the run benefit the Cedar Park Neighbors Scholarship Fundraiser.
THE MUSIC. Dock Street Free Music Fest refreshes and excites the mind. Representing West Philadelphia but invigorating anyone who gives a listen, root-rockers Hoots and Hellmouth headline the show. O'Death delivers a ‘suplex' in the form of folk-punk-goth-Americana. Let yourself be entertained by the captivating punk-theatrics of The Extraordinaires and the Streetwalkers' northern dream pop. First band on at 2pm.
THE GRUB. Dock Street is firing up fresh pies from the wood-fired oven and selling by the slice. Americana, Pepperoni, Vegetarian and Vegan are among the delicious options on the menu. Buttercream Cupcake Lady is providing the sweets for a mid-festival sugar rush.
REGISTER. https://www.runtheday.com/app/find/register/841 Space is limited. Register today and tell your friends! Pre-registration $35, $40 on race day. Chip timing, registration and race management by Run the Day.
All ages. Rain or shine.

Come to sample outstanding cuisine from Russia, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Eritrea, Greece and Mexico. Linger to enjoy free live music and dance entertainment, craft and gift booths, art displays children's activities, an iconography exhibit, and tours of historical landmark Orthodox Church
Website Orthodox Food Festival

When the Bagel Factory was new to the Midwestern town of Mattoon, owner Murray Lender hosted a free bagel breakfast for the City of Mattoon. That was the beginning of the local love affair with the bagel and the beginning of the Bagelfest. Today the breakfast has evolved into a three day festival that celebrates the best of the Mattoon community
Website Mattoon Bagelfest

The 12th Annual Marysville Peach Festival is going to be an exciting event with a wide variety of new and returning craft vendors, food vendors cooking for every taste bud, several delicious choices of peach related foods, and great entertainment for all ages.
Come and enjoy the food, entertainment, arts and crafts with the thirty thousand plus
other people who regularly visit the Festival
Website Marysville Peach Festival

Come and enjoy live music and entertainment as you walk through the streets of downtown Pageland. It kicks off on Friday afternoon at 3:00 pm. There will be something for everyone in the vendor area and special events and entertainment throught out the day for the kids. Don't forget the old fashion seed spittin' and watermelon eatin' contests for all ages
Website Pageland Watermelon Festival

The Hudson Wine Festival will showcase over 150 wines from local, national and international producers as well as select craft beers which will be available for tasting and full glass pours. Guests will also enjoy musical entertainment, delectable foods, seminars, a variety of local artists and raffles throughout the weekend. Retail vendors will be located throughout the event site and will offer a variety of products and services that are animal, wine and community oriented
Website Hudson Wine Festival

Kirkland Uncorked is a regional showcase of art, food and wine on the picturesque shores of Lake Washington in Kirkland taking place at Marina Park (25 Lakeshore Plaza, Kirkland, WA 98033). Benefiting the Hope Heart Institute, Kirkland Uncorked features artist showrooms, a boat show, and dog modeling contest in the Promenade and a Tasting Garden with grilling demonstrations, Washington wine tasting and live music
Website Kirkland Uncorked

PIB is a high end 3-day beer festival specializing in rare, hard-to-find, exotic beers. Over 150 world-class beers from 16 countries will be on hand, hailing from all over the planet, many from right here in the Pacific NW. Stroll around the beautiful park with a cold one as you listen to music play all weekend
Website Portland International Beerfest

This 4th annual festival has become a staple of summer in St. Paul. The event - held outdoors in partnership with Highland Fest and the Highland Business Association - offers an afternoon of craft beer sampling from more than 50 local, regional and national breweries. In addition to great craft beer, the festival will include:
• Some very special releases from your favorite breweries.
• A special tapping of The Beer Dabbler's Oak Barrel brew - a one-time release of a beer brewed especially for this festival by our friends at Big Wood Brewery.
• Performances by local bands Little Man, The Japhies & Apollo Cobra, presented by Rock the Cause
• The Beer Dabbler's 4th annual Highland Fest Home Brew Competition. This BJCP / AMA sanctioned contest is free to enter with the purchase of a ticket to the festival.
• Lord Dabbler's Cup awarded to the ‘best brewery' as voted by festival attendees
• Beer Education presented by the Science Museum of Minnesota's Social Science
• Gourmet Food Trucks, including Hola Arepa, Fork in the Road, Chef Shack, Stanley's on Wheels
• Games & activities including the Leinenkugel's Silent Disco and Minnow Races by Stanley's Northeast Barroom
A portion of all ticket sales supports The Highland Business Association, a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization that serves as an advocate and a resource for business in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood
Website Summer Beer Dabbler at Highland Fest

You will enjoy your wine on the beautiful banks of the Northeast River while listening to blues, jazz and a little swing. The goal of the Festival is to focus on Cecil County; our agriculture, people, food, wineries and talented artists. By partnering with Cecil County Agriculture, Cecil County Tourism and Cecil County Arts Council, we believe this goal will be realized
Website Cecil County Food & Wine Festival

Over 200 Vermont cheeses will be the centerpiece of the annual Vermont Cheesemakers' Festival at Shelburne Farms this summer, along with dozens of specialty foods, fine wines, and locally crafted beer. Set on the shores of Lake Champlain at the picturesque Shelburne Farms, the Festival will feature more than 40 Vermont cheesemakers who will be sampling and selling their products. Cooking and cheesemaking demonstrations, wine tastings, and seminars will round out the afternoon. Admission to the Festival is $40, or $50 with a drink ticket. The Festival typically sells out well in advance, so early reservations are recommended.
Website Vermont Cheesemakers' Festival

Tales of the Cocktail is the world's premier cocktail festival, bringing together the most respected minds on mixology for five days of cocktails, cuisine and culture. Held annually in New Orleans, this international event has something for cocktail professionals and enthusiasts alike with a spirited schedule of seminars, dinners, competitions and tasting rooms where brands showcase their latest products
Website Tales of the Cocktail

The summer's most anticipated culinary event returns to Santa Monica. Featuring some of LA's hottest chefs, relax with tempting morsels off the grill, vintner tastings, specialty cocktails, great music and crackling fires as the summer sun sets over the ocean. Dress is casual, shoes are optional. Benefitting St. Vincent Meals on Wheels
Website An Evening on the Beach

Now in its 26th year, the IPNC is a three-day event, famous around the globe, as a mecca for lovers of Pinot noir and northwest cuisine. During the weekend, world-renowned winemakers, northwest chefs, esteemed media, epicures and wine lovers will gather in McMinnville, Oregon, for three days of exploring Pinot noir, savoring unforgettable meals, and learning and celebrating with luminaries of the food and wine world. Along with the speakers and chefs, it is the relaxing and festive atmosphere that sets the IPNC apart from all other wine events. Whether tasting Grand Cru Burgundy or walking through Oregon vineyards with the grower who planted them, guests find themselves unwinding in picturesque Oregon wine country for what wine legend Jancis Robinson described as "one of the most enjoyable wine weekends in the world"
Website International Pinot Noir Celebration

The Natchez Food and Wine Festival has become one of the most anticipated events in the area. With an agenda taking you from one remarkable experience to the next, you will find yourself constantly surrounded with some of the region's most prominent chefs and restaurants, and indulged in the finest of food, wine, and entertainment. Make reservations soon to attend this unforgettable three-day event
Website Natchez Food and Wine Festival

Free Admission, International Foods, Wine, Live Music, Rides & Games,
Beer, Bocce, Dance, Arts & Crafts & Fun For All The Family. The Italian Festival Kitchen offers you fine, time-tested recipes for many dishes, including appetizers, entrees and desserts. These recipes were tested and approved by Chef Marian Paravano Grubor, Director of the Culinary Arts Program at West Virginia Northern Community College in Wheeling
Website Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival

Come on down and enjoy all of the tasty temptations, and some of your favorite wines, as Key Largo's culinary experts step up to the plate to show you what Key Largo has to offer. 10 glorious days of wine tasting events, cooking demonstrations, themed wine dinners, food and wine pairing classes, progressive wine dinners, art and wine shows.
The Festival's inaugural ‘Grand Tasting' on Saturday August 6th offers a multi-sensory experience not to be missed as area restaurants and wine experts join together to present samples of their finest cuisine and world-class wines. Live music, celebrity chef appearances, cooking demos; wine seminars and Key Largo-style beach parties combine to serve up the recipe for a spectacular day of tasting by the beautiful Florida Bay.
Website Key Largo Food and Wine Festival

Milwaukee Brewfest will be held at the Old Coast Guard Pavilion Park on Milwaukee's lakefront. This prime location offers a beautiful view of Lake Michigan and McKinley Marina. Location also has ample parking. In addition to unlimited sampling of over 200 craft beers and micro brews from around the world, there will also be a number of other on-site activities:
• Musical performances
• Exhibits and games
• Crowning of 2012 Milwaukee Brewfest Queen
• A variety of food for purchase from local restaurants and vendors
• Food sampling from various Wisconsin based compagnie
Website Milwaukee Brewfest

The California Beer Festival (CBF) is coming to Santa Cruz County at beautiful Aptos Village Park! With over 70 craft brews on tap, three live bands including an electrifying 14 piece tribute to Michael Jackson with "Foreverland", mouth watering food and bocce ball. CBF is the event of the year for any beer enthusiast! CBF's main goal is to shine a light on the craft beer movement and celebrate great beer. For one low price, you will receive a souvenir tasting cup to sample some of the best craft beers from around the state, play bocce ball and listen to amazing music
Website California Beer Festival

For over 19 years the Crawfish Festival has become a tradition to over thousands of festival goers annually. We combine the best Cajun, Zydeco, and New Orleans sounds of music, tons of fresh crawfish prepared Louisiana style and served by authentic Cajun chefs, giant food court, children's area, dance floor, two stages and beach bars to create the largest Crawfish Festival outside of Louisiana, in Southern California.
Website Long Beach Crawfish Festival

SF Chefs is San Francisco's premier food, wine, and spirits festival. Set on San Francisco's legendary Union Square and at venues throughout the City, the festival offers numerous opportunities to mingle with master chefs, mixologists, winemakers and other culinary superstars. The Grand Tasting Tent on Union Square features over 200 of San Francisco's finest restaurants, bars, distilleries, breweries & wineries displaying their finest creations. At venues throughout the City, there are classes, demonstrations, speakers and special parties - a little something for every palate
Website SF Chefs

Tomato growing contests, arts & crafts, a variety of entertainment, food, and free activities for children
Website Hanover Tomato Festival

The Festival features select vintages by the glass from local wineries as well as a wide variety of foods including Thai, Chinese, Mexican, All American favorites like sausages, hot links and roasted corn, sweets of all kinds, and more.
Info Annual Los Altos Arts & Wine Festival

The International Beverage Exposition and Competition (IBEC) is quickly becoming one of Asia's premier beverage events. It is a forum for exhibitors of wine, spirits, beer and other non-alcoholic beverage to showcase their products to a variety of buyers. Attendees have the opportunity to taste products and meet face-to-face with producers, importers and distributors
Website International Beverage Exposition and Competition

Ohio Brew Week celebrates Ohio's diverse microbrews during the weeklong festival. Enjoy live bands, a barleyhole tournament, antique car show, craft brew garden, art, craft & food vendors
Website Ohio Brew Week Festival

Green Cuisine is Michigan's first zero waste event and an expression of our mission to "raise awareness around just and sustainable food systems" and our best effort to promote the best in local food and sustainable business practices. Visitors will be able to meet and sample the works of local food and beverage artisans, tour Food For Thought's organic farm and green buildings as well as socialize, learn and have fun in a beautiful setting. We also have a "green lifestyles" tent where you can learn about other green local products and services.
In line with that philosophy, this is a "zero-waste" event. As in all things sustainable, "zero-waste" is a process, not a destination. The goal is for all the waste generated from the event to be either reusable, recyclable or compostable. In year's past we've had up to 1000 visitors and generated less than 7 ounces of waste! We accomplish this, in part, by composting 100% of our food and paper waste here on the farm. By attending you can observe all our other green tricks we perfected over the years.
It's free! This is important to us because Green Cuisine is about promoting our partners in the local food and lifestyle businesses. All our artisans volunteer their time and a lot of their product to make this happen. So in exchange we do require your contact information in order that we can share that with the "vendors and sponsors only." In addition we have some generous underwriters that help us cover part of the cost. Food For Thought picks up the balance. Therefore, this year we have added a donation option when you register. Please consider helping us out. At any donation level you will be given a name badge at the event identifying you as a sponsor so that we can thank you personally.
Website Food For Thought's Green Cuisine

Wine, food, blues, sea and sun. These elements create a unique wine tasting experience at every California Wine Festival, wines to sample, top chefs and specialty food purveyors serving gourmet appetizers, fresh cut fruits, grilled meats, artisan breads and cheeses and much more.
Website California Wine Festival - Santa Barbara

Spend a day or the whole weekend as you sample your favorite brews, discover a variety of new flavorful beers, enjoy great food ranging from an all-out BBQ feast to a 4-course gourmet meal, party to all your favorite music, take part in a seminar/beer tasting competition, participate in the Brews & Birdies Golf Tournament and so much more
Website New Jersey Beer and Food Festival

While Parisians celebrate the French Revolution 8,000 miles away, Californians will revel in the sights, sounds, foods and joie de vivre of France at the largest French celebration in the Western United States.
This year's Fête Française will feature dozens of chefs preparing fine French food everything from crêpes to Cajun, from café au lait to decadent desserts and pastries. Enjoy French beer, wine, champagne and soft drinks. Arts and Craft vendors selling hand-crafted jewelry, beautiful paintings, hand-made apparel, books and so much more. Get a henna tattoo, a nice massage or a spiritual reading. For the kids there will be face painting, a jump house and lots of tasty treats in a beautiful outdoor setting
Website Santa Barbara French Festival

Located in historic Selinsgrove, the 4th Annual Brew Festival continues a tradition: Superb Micro & Craft Brews, Fine Regional Wineries, True Tasting Event, Entertainment, Great Food Vendors
Website Hops, Vines & Wines

International Trade Fair of Organic Products and Agroecology. Bio Brazil Fair was specifically developed to attend the needs of producers and manufacturers for a great event that offers business opportunities and knowledge exchange. The Brazilian organics industry presents a comprehensive growing and promises to be one of the world´s biggest organic food producers. The fair includes Organic Producers, Certifiers, Financial Institutions and Technology Providers. The event also offers technical lectures and the Latin American Forum on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture gathering important names in the sector, professionals and authorities to discuss the future of this market.
Website Bio Brazil Fair

ACF's National Convention is attended by approximately 1,500 culinary professionals and offers culinarians the opportunity to learn about the latest cooking trends and techniques from around the country. The ACF National Convention provides professional development opportunities through informative business seminars, forums, clinics, cutting-edge demonstrations and hands-on workshops. The conference also features a trade show where foodservice exhibitors showcase their latest culinary products.
Website ACF National Convention

The Snowmass Culinary & Arts Festival brings foodies, wine connoisseurs, and art lovers alike together in a premiere visual and delectable feast. It features celebrity chefs, a juried art exhibit with regionally and nationally recognized artists, food & presentation expert panels, and a Palette of Pairings featuring specialty foods with wines & spirits, all set in the scenic mountain splendor of Snowmass Village, Colorado. Extend your stay and set out to explore easy or extreme hiking and biking trails, take in a free & festive Thursday night concert on the Hill, and visit world-renowned Aspen and its cultural delights right next door
Website Snowmass Culinary & Arts Festival

This is a fun family event with a children's activities, live entertainment, a Portland Restaurant Berry Bramble and a chance to win a bike and eat your fill of Oregon berries. There will be ice creams, pies, cobblers, jams, strawberry shortcake plus the unexpected taste treat like Marionberry BBQ sauce, Loganberry liqueur, cranberry chocolates, natural blueberry soda and much more
Website Oregon Berry Festival

The Summer Brew Fest at Mile High Station will celebrate craft beverages from around Colorado and other U.S. microbrews and feature; live local music, food, and other vendors. This event benefits Swallow Hill Music Association.
Website Summer Brew Fest

Guests of the BIG Taste will enjoy all-inclusive food from twenty of Milwaukee's finest restaurants all while taking in spectacular views of Festa Italiana's grand finale fireworks display from the lakefront terrace at Pier Wisconsin. Milwaukee's top chefs will once again be dishing out some of their most popular menu items for you to indulge in
Info Big Taste

It is impossible to understand German Fest without indulging in a bit of prepared fresh daily German culinary creations. Over the four day festival, five tons of potatoes are required to keep up with the demand for potato pancakes. More than 20,000 Usinger's Brats are devoured by devoted German Fest Fans and don't hold the sauerkraut ‘cause another 10,000 pounds of kraut is served.
Website German Fest

A one-of-a-kind festival celebrating the best of Wisconsin foods and beverages. Of course Wisconsin is famous for its superb cheese, brats and beer but Taste of WisconsinTM also features an immense array of foods and beverages that are true Wisconsin specialties, bringing the wondrous tastes, flavors and cultures of Wisconsin together in one amazing three-day celebration.
Website Taste of Wisconsin

Three days of incredible food, beverages, arts & crafts, live entertainment. 10 tons of beef, 4 tons of pasta, 4 tons of calamari, 2 tons of scampi, 2 tons of fresh Christopher Ranch garlic & $9.3 million raised for local charity. The festival is held in a park. It is all outdoors with mostly turf and some compact dirt and asphalt walkways. There are natural shade trees, and many shade tents with tables and benches.
The admission price includes parking, musical entertainment, cooking demonstrations, and a children's area. Festival guests purchase food and beverages from the vendors. Prices range from $2 to $12 depending on the item, which is a full-size serving, not a sample.
Website Gilroy Garlic Festival

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The World's Largest Brat Fest began 28 years ago by Tom Metcalfe. The sons and family of Tom continue the tradition and cele"brat"e every Memorial Day weekend.
Come rain or shine, The World's Largest Brat Fest is held at Willow Island of the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI. We cele"brat"e the start of summer with juicy Johnsonville brats, Oscar Mayer Hot dogs and Veggie Brats smothered in Frank's Kraut; Heinz Ketchup, Mustard & Relish and onions, washed down with ice-cold Pepsi, Budweiser and Sassy Cow milk and finished off with a side of Chocolate Shoppe ice cream, funnel cakes and fun. Obviously, Brat Fest is about eating brats, but more importantly, it's about giving back to the community with proceeds benefiting the local charities that help staff the event
Website World's Largest Brat Fest

Memorial Day weekend in Burlington means three things, chocolate, chocolate, and you guessed it,chocolate! Every year the Burlington ChocolateFest brings a crowd of 35,000+ visitors to the area to experience a weekend of fun, games, rides, cooking demonstrations and of course chocolate.For over 25 years, this volunteer-run festival has pleased children and appetites, as it raisesmoney for over 65 local and national charities
Website ChocolateFest

Taste of Cincinnati USA is held every Memorial Day weekend in downtown Cincinnati by The Downtown Council and the Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Association. Started in 1979, it is now the nation's longest running culinary arts festival. Taste of Cincinnati USA features more than 40 fine restaurants serving up delicious and delectable menu items. In the weeks leading up to Taste each year, menu items are previewed and judged for prestigious Best of Taste Awards. Taste of Cincinnati USA is also a music festival, with continuous live entertainment featuring local and national recording stars performing on multiple stages throughout the event
Website Taste of Cincinnati USA

This fun-filled event usually attracts South Floridians and visitors alike from all cultural backgrounds. The cool, grassy lawns, picnic benches and tables, walking path, bathrooms and palm-tree lined knoll which creates a great vantage point from which to look into the park or out at the inter-coastal waterway, will make for a pleasurable experience for all in attendante. Come experience the best in Jerk Cuisine and Caribbean Music and Art
Website Palm Beach Jerk and Caribbean Culture Festival

Experience more than 100 food artisans, wineries, breweries, distilleries, epicurean purveyors, and locally-made products at this ultimate food and wine experience. Whether you are a full-fledged foodie or an emerging gourmand, you are sure to find more than one event to whet your appetite at the Classic. There is something for everyone - from food and wine tastings, to seminars and cooking demonstrations, to outdoor adventures with food & wine influences, there are tastes and temptations at every turn
Website Park City Food and Wine Festival

SIB is a high end 3-day beer festival specializing in rare, hard-to-find, exotic beers. Over 200 world-class beers from 16 countries will be on hand, hailing from all over the planet, many from right here in the Pacific NW. Stroll around our beautiful grounds with a cold one as you listen to great bands play all weekend
Website Seattle International Beerfest

The Taste is a weekend festival filled with great food and entertainment. It is located in the heart of Downtown Buffalo along Delaware Avenue beginning just South of Niagara Square by City Hall and heading North almost all the way to Chippewa Street. It begins at 11 a.m. daily and there is no admission charge.
More than 200 culinary specialties are served by WNY's best restaurants. All items are priced between $1.00 and $4.00. Pick your favorite food or sample something new like Strawberry Crepes with Whip Cream or a "Nickel City Mac and Cheese" w/Blue Cheese, Sundried Tomatoes, Goldfish Crackers and Hotsauce. The Taste has it all
Website Taste of Buffalo

Join us at the festival for a great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Your admission buys you a sampling glass so you can enjoy an All-you-care-to-taste sampling of beer and bourbon. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and live music all day.
Info Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival

The Washington Brewer's festival is a unique all-age beer festival where thousands of beer aficionados and families gather to celebrate Father's Day weekend. This year's event will once again feature over 200 different beers from 64 different breweries. In addition, the festival offers great food (new this year, gourmet food trucks), live music stage, brewer's keg toss, root beer garden, kids area, craft booths, wine and cider tasting
Info Washington Brewers Festival

Arcata Main Street's Oyster Festival has become a tradition for local restaurateurs, executive chefs, and caterers to show off their culinary skills by preparing oysters in every imaginable way. More than 70% of the fresh oysters consumed in California are grown in 450 acres of Arcata Bay. June is a peak month for oyster harvests in Humboldt County. These oysters are now farmed using long-lines or "rack & bag" methods in the Arcata Bay and no harmful dredging of the bay is necessary for their capture.
Try them roasted, barbecued, fried, on a pizza, in a secret sauce or just plain raw with a hint of garlic and lime! However your taste buds desire this oceanic delicacy, you are sure to find it on the Arcata Plaza. With imagination and flair, one can eat away the entire day. The coals glow hot from early morning 'til the last oyster has been shucked.
Crowds throughout the day top 18,000, keeping local food vendors more than busy. Most festival vendors are chefs from Humboldt County's most appreciated restaurants. Each year festival chefs compete in the annual oyster tasting competition to claim the auspicious award of ‘Best Oyster of the Festival'.
Website Arcata Oyster Festival

The Taste of Orange County is Southern California's premiere food, wine and entertainment festival. This two-day event is expected to draw an attendance of more than 20,000 participants and will showcase OC's burgeoning and dynamic culinary scene. In addition, this event will include everything from local restaurant tastings to cooking demos from Orange County's top chefs. From the connoisseur who lives and breathes for the finer things in life to the novice looking for an introduction to the world of food, wine, beer and spirits, the "Taste of OC" will deliver a grand experience that is sure to please every palette. Topping off the weekend will include a variety of art, fashion, entertainment and music events showcasing the unique culture and lifestyle that has made OC a world-class destination.
Website Taste of Orange County

At Taste of Little Italy, you'll enjoy live music as you stroll and dine in San Diego's most hip and historic neighborhood. Appetizers, entrees, beverages and desserts will be served by the area's finest restaurants, all within an easy walking distance. You'll experience old favorites as well as new eateries. As you taste your way through this picturesque neighborhood, you'll take in the sights and sounds that make this event a treat for all the senses
Website Taste of Little Italy

A Taste of Summer is San Diego's premier food event, celebrating the launch of the San Diego chapter of The Positive Plate. Hundreds of locals will enjoy unique small plates created by the county's top chefs. With sustainability as the evening's theme, all dishes will be made using local, organic, and seasonal ingredients, while highlighting the creativity of each participating restaurant. In addition to the many culinary delights served throughout the evening, attendees will enjoy organic wine, craft beer, and signature drinks, while listening to live music, viewing local art, and learning about a variety of organizations and businesses passionate about sustainability
Website A Taste of Summer

This event is a one-of-a-kind food and wine experience, taking you from farm to table and vine to glass. Not only will you rub elbows with top winemakers and chefs, you will also meet the suppliers these chefs count on daily for fresh ingredients. Enjoy well over 100 wines from around the world along with a grand array of offerings from area restaurants, cheese makers and brewers, all in a casual and vibrant atmosphere
Website Stowe Wine and Food Classic

The area's favorite restaurants, breweries, and wineries serve samples of their most delectable culinary dishes, wines, and brews. And while tasting samples, enjoy the Litehouse sponsored cooking competition where local chefs battle for the "best of" with spices and ingenuity. Come and stay for the weekend for other events happening around town, the ever-popular Farmer's Market, and the summer season at Schweitzer Mountain with scenic chair lift rides, village activities and more
Info Sandpoint Summer Sampler

The Taste of Tacoma, now in its 24th year of continuous operation, features regional restaurants, food product companies, 5 outdoor entertainment stages, beer and wine gardens, the Wine & Roses Wine Tasting Exhibit benefiting the Greater Metro Parks Foundation, a Comedy Club and a covered dining area. The Taste also has a carnival and amusement rides. In addition, Art a la Carte features over 100 juried arts and crafts vendors. The setting for the events is in a beautifully-landscaped park boardering the Puget Sound
Website Taste of Tacoma

Three days of summertime eating, drinking and entertainment. A selection of the best restaurants in the country will be dishing up their finest in an unbeatable alfresco gourmet feast, while over 100 producers provide a bounty of the best food and beverages, ensuring that visitors sample and shop for a range of produce in the laid back atmosphere of a boutique food market. Restaurants have fashioned special menus of starter sized dishes for the occasion, including signature dishes created by chefs to specially reflect their philosophy and showcase seasonal and premium ingredients
Website Taste of Edinburgh

The National Cherry Festival celebrates cherries, tourism and community involvement. 150 events, over 500,000 annual attendance for the 8 days.
Web site National Cherry Festival

A three-day benefit that offers something for wine lovers of all levels and tastes. Every year, more than 600 people travel from near and far to attend the celebrated event.
Website Salute! - A Festival of Wine and Food

Taste of Dallas is Dallas' most sought-after culinary event, featuring over 60 restaurants and showcasing Dallas' top chefs. Dozens of Dallas' top restaurants, all in one convenient location, offer tastings from their menus for $1 to $3. Stroll through our huge culinary area inside Fair Park's automobile building featuring local chef demonstrations over the 3 days, wine and beer tastings, cook book signings, a huge culinary marketplace, and much more. 150,000 square feet of indoor, air conditioned space will house culinary demonstrations, a culinary marketplace, Kids' Taste Town, an Artists Enclave and more which complement the restaurants along the Esplanade fountains in beautiful Fair Park
Website Taste of Dallas

Teams from around the world will compete for the esteemed title to be the best at their art. Teams will have a total of 13 hours to complete a required list of elements, and then judged by a panel of experts on artistry and technical merit, work ethic and hygiene, and degustation. The World Pastry Team Championship is held every odd numbered year. This event features up to 10 teams composed of three pastry chefs each
Website The World Pastry Team Championship

The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an annual, weekend-long conference on food, its culture and its history. The oldest and most important gathering on this topic, it brings together up to 220 international scholars, journalists, chefs, scientists, sociologists, anthrolopogists--and even committed amateurs--among others, for a serious discussion about the theme at hand.
Website Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery

With over 30 participating restaurants, the 5th Annual Coral Gables Restaurant Week is back for only two weeks. It's time to revisit old favorites and discover new ones. Each restaurant offers a three-course lunch and/or dinner menu with at least a 20% savings off the regular menu prices. There's something for everyone, so take your pick, make your reservations, and we'll see you soon at the finest place to dine in South Florida, Downtown Coral Gables
Website Coral Gables Restaurant Week

An early summer gathering of friends new and old. A celebration of the good life in Maine. Our quintessential coastal community is the setting for this multi-venue Festival that's all about inspired good times. From the chefs and artists who use their talents to excite palates and imaginations to the hoteliers, homeowners, innkeepers, and gallery owners who welcome you with open arms, the Festival is truly a collaborative event where all involved share a single vision: give you an epic and ever-so-memorable start to your summer.
Website Kennebunkport Festival

Great Food, live entertainment, fun for the whole family with Riblet Fest for kids and the Games Galore midway. The best rib cookers from across the country compete to see who's are the best
Website Riblet Fest

The Festival itself is always held on the first weekend in June. The 2012 Beer Festival will be the 16th Keswick Beer Festival, from humble beginnings in 1997 this event has grown into an event attracting nearly 6000 Beer enthusiasts over two days.
• 6,000 people visited the Beer Festival
• Over 250 barrels of beer, lager and cider were available to sample
• Endless sausage baguettes, beef burgers, pork rolls and chicken curries were consumed
• 6 live bands played
• The sun shone - most of the time!
Website Keswick Beer Festival

In 2012 however the Late Spring Bank Holiday has been moved to the first Monday in June, June 4th, this is to coincide with the additional Bank Holiday on June 5th (in 2012 only) to give people in the UK the opportunity of a 4-day weekend to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Competitors run, roll & somersault themselves down the steep (1:2 gradient), grassy slopes of Cooper's Hill in pursuit of a 7- 8 lb (4kg) Double Gloucester cheese.
Website Cheese-Rolling in Gloucestershire

This year's Taste of London restaurant festival will celebrate the best of world class cuisine with a host of new international features and the most impressive line-up of Michelin starred restaurants and world renowned chefs in the show's nine year history. Over 50,000 visitors can expect to dine from 40 of the capital's top restaurants, serving a mix of Asian, European and South American cuisine, enjoy international flavours from Malaysia, Brazil, Peru and the Caribbean and pick up the latest ingredients from 200 quality food and drink producers.
Website Taste of London

Speciality Food Show, Harrogate brings together over 150 exhibitors each year from the UK and overseas. Every year it features greattastelive!, the Guild of Fine Food's live, interactive theatre of teach-ins and workshops. The show attracts a high percentage of first-time exhibitors, being a natural platform for producers moving on from the farmers market circuit. This means that visitors can taste genuinely new products and identify the latest foodie trends. And of course Harrogate would not be complete without Feed the Dragon, a forum where speciality food producers pitch their products to key buyers from delis and food halls.
Website Harrogate Speciality Food Show

The competition will again be a chance for professional cupcake makers to shine, and demonstrate just why consumers love these sweet bakery treats. However, the competition is not just about the kudos of being crowned National Cupcake Champion. Those who make the shortlist will be invited to an exclusive event at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, on 2 July, where they will get to meet like-minded cupcake makers from across the UK. Not only will they get to benchmark their cupcakes against the best the country has to offer, it will be an opportunity to share business advice and make invaluable contacts.
The competition will reward seven separate categories and ultimately crown an overall National Cupcake Champion 2012. 2012 Categories:
• Themed Cupcake of the Year
• Free-from cupcake of the Year
• Best Cupcake Made with Alcohol
• Best Cupcake Handcrafted for Multiple Outlets
• Micro-modelled Cupcake of the Year
• Savoury Cupcake of the Year
• New! Classic Cupcake
Website National Cupcake Championships

The 22nd Annual Jacksonville Foodfight will feature more than 50 local restaurants, beverage distributors and caterers engaging in a friendly competition showcasing their signature dishes. In addition to the fabulous food and spirits, live entertainment will provided by local band Split Tone.
Each year volunteers representing the local restaurant community host an event called "The Jacksonville Foodfight " that features 50 of Jacksonville's finest restaurants and beverage wholesalers/distributors who come together in friendly competition to "take a bite out of hunger" by raising funds and awareness for Second Harvest North Florida. More than 1,200 guests are tempted to taste everything they see from the glorious variety of the finest foods and spirits displayed throughout two floors of the fabulous Touchdown Club East at EverBank Field. Live musical entertainment and two exciting raffles round out the evening.
Info Jacksonville Foodfight

The Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival is one of the oldest continuous running festivals in the state of Arkansas. During the Pink Tomato Festival, there's dancing in the streets - lite rally. All in celebration of that symbol of Bradley County - the tomato.
There's something for everyone - food, shopping, arts, crafts, contests, pageants, parade, carnival, games, live music - you name it, it's probably there
Website Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival

This annual, multi-day wine and food festival has quickly grown into one of the largest in the region, featuring hundreds of wines, food from dozens of local restaurants and live entertainment. Art of Wine events include progressive dinners, whiskey and other spirits tastings, an exclusive Winemaker's Dinner, the affordable and educational Wine Lover's Brunch, and two amazing wine tasting events, Uncorked and the Premier Tasting. This year we are excited to add two entry classes into the world of wine: Wine Tasting 101 and Sparkling Wine Extravaganza! Most festival events take place in June, with special featured events in the winter and spring.
Info Art of Wine Festival

This exciting culinary event puts grilling center stage with tastings from some of Chicago's hottest restaurants, celebrity chef demonstrations, Weber grilling classes, a "Chill Zone" lounge area, live music, an on-site bookstore featuring signed cookbooks, kids' activities, and more. Admission to the festival is free, however tastings and Weber classes will require ticket purchase. For your convenience, there will be a free shuttle service from major public transportation stops to the festival.
Info Weber's Chill and Grill Festival

The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party (BABBP) is the premiere barbecue and music celebration in the Northeast, and celebrates its 10th Anniversary this June. The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party takes place in New York City's Madison Square Park and features the nation's best barbecue from 18 of the country's renowned pitmasters, live music performances, as well as barbecue seminars, cooking demos, and giveaways
Website Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

The 5th annual American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF) is the east coast's largest celebration of American beer, featuring over 120 American brewers and over 500 beers. 
Tickets are on sale now via Eventbrite. $45 per session (service fees apply) and include: entry into one session, access to over 500 craft beers, all 2oz beer tastings, compostable tasting cup and fest guide; while supplies last
Info American Craft Beer Fest

Philly Beer Week is a 10-day celebration of the Best Beer-Drinking City in America.
Established in 2008, it's the largest beer celebration of its kind in America, featuring hundreds of festivals, dinners, tours, pub crawls, tastings and meet-the-brewer nights to area bars, restaurants and other locations throughout Greater Philadelphia.
Since its inception, more than 50 other U.S. cities have copied Philadelphia's success to launch their own beer weeks.
Philly Beer Week highlights the region's diverse beer scene - its world-class breweries, neighborhood taverns, trend-setting restaurants and rich beer culture and history. Philly Beer Week draws thirsty beer fans from throughout the region and beyond, making it one of Philadelphia's key annual tourism events.
Philly Beer Week is organized and operated by Philly Beer Week Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(6) organization overseen by a board comprised of brewery owners, distributors, restaurant owners and others, to promote Philadelphia's beer and hospitality industries.
Website Philly Beer Week

The Ashland Strawberry Faire is a tradional celebration to promote the community and feature the strawberry harvest. The Faire is usually on the first Saturday in June, held on the streets adjacent to the Randolph Macon College campus. The Faire is a free, community and family-oriented event during which non-profit groups and churches raise funds and offer something for everyone. There are vendors selling arts, crafts, plants, and antiques to the many thousands who attend the event. Among the many attractions are two stages. They feature entertainment from brass and jazz bands, choirs, dancing, pipes and drums, to Little Miss and Little Mr. Strawberry contests and much more
Website Ashland Strawberry Faire

The New Orleans Oyster Fest will educated the country about the benefits of the Louisiana Gulf Oyster, honor and celebrate the restaurateurs and oyster farmers who have solidifed the New Orleans French Quarter as the Oyster Capital of America.
Local Culinary delights, local music, cultural oyster tent, Acme Oyster House world Oyster Eating Contest, and the P&J Oyster Shucking contest.
Website New Orleans Oyster Fest

The National Homebrewers Conference is a fun, educational gathering designed to enhance homebrewers' brewing skills and knowledge and increase homebrewing camaraderie. Special seminars and events cater to beer enthusiasts and amateur brewers of every level.
Web site National Homebrewers Conference

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The Father's Day tradition will feature amazing Italian food representing generations-old recipes from Chicago's "Best Kept Secret," the fabulous restaurants located in Chicago's Little Tuscany at 24th Street and Oakley Avenue. Continuous family entertainment will hail from around the country including The Bronx Wanderers from NYC, who have come to be Italian festival favorites here in Chicago and The Scintas, one of the most popular acts in Las Vegas, will make their Chicago debut on Sunday. John Michael Coppola, former Jersey Boy cast member will also bring his show to the main stage. New this year, The "Jazz on the Vine" experience will showcase great wines and awesome Italian American jazz performers. "It's a true Italian-style block party in one of Chicago's favorite Little Italys," said coordinator Ron Onesti. "This event is all about tradition, it's all about quality, and it's about creating memories." Bacchanalia, Il Vicinato, Miceli's Deli, Ignotz Ristorante and La Fontanella are the classic eateries who will supply the tasty foods available at the event. Over 50 fine wines will be available for sampling. Admission is free, but a donation is requested at the door. Donations foster the business community of the turn of the century neighborhood.
Info Festa Pasta Vino Festival

Sugarasia is an exclusive and dedicated platform, related to Sugar & Downstream industry,enabling Equipment manufacturer, technology providers as well as input suppliers to showcase their products before a focused and targeted audience i.e. Sugar, Distillery ,Ethanol, Co-Generation and Cane farming experts from entire Asian region.
Website Sugarasia

The event is situated in the historic North Beach District, known to locals and visitors alike as San Francisco's Little Italy and the home of the famed beat generation. The Festival site includes numerous quaint streets in the heart of the district. The 2012 event will feature over 125 arts and crafts booths, 20 gourmet food booths, three stages of live entertainment, Italian street painting, beverage gardens, children's activities and the blessing of the animals.
Info North Beach Festival

Vinexpo Asia-Pacific is exclusively reserved for wine and spirits professionals and related businesses of the Asia-Pacific region (restaurant trade, duty free, etc.) and also journalists.
Info Vinexpo Asia-Pacific

Rendez-vous by Vinexpo will premier in the heart of Manhattan in the Special Events Hall of the Javits Center and will welcome 6,000 carefully targeted consumers. Exhibitors and local distributors will be able to select ready-to-use modular tasting areas to display their products with optimal visibility and enhance direct contact with consumers.
Website Rendez-Vous

Le Festivale de la Viande Boucanee, better known as the Smoked Meat Festival is a two day event, promoted by Chapter 632 of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Festival highlights include the World Championship Smoked Meat Cookoff for amateurs and professionals. The backyard cooks and the professionals are equal to the task of preparing meats in varied and imaginative ways, each using their own special seasonings and methods of smoking the meat. The cook off is open to any kind of dish using smoked meat, such as sausage, tasso, pounce bouree', deer, pig, rabbit, even fish. Festival guests enjoy entree samples sold at individual booths and hear a little bit of bragging from last year's champions.
Website Smoked Meat Festival

Taste of Chicago is the nation's premier outdoor food festival showcasing the diversity of Chicago's dining community. The delicious array of food served at Taste of Chicago is complemented by music and exciting activities for the entire family. Every summer since 1980, Chicago's beautiful Grant Park on the city's magnificent lakefront has been home to the world's largest food festival
Website Taste of Chicago

World Tea Expo is the only business-to-business event dedicated to tea; it's the three days each year when participants determine trends, optimize product lines, increase their knowledge and network with peers.
Thousands of retailers, tea room owners, F&B directors, spa managers, specialty grocers, mass merchants and other business professionals attend the Expo to see more than 300 specialty tea wholesale suppliers and related vendors exhibit new products and innovations.
Web site World Tea Expo

Battle of the Bones is a fierce barbecue competition between the best barbecue chefs on the West Coast. It is a family focused event with kid friendly activities, live musical performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as a craft beer and wine tasting competition. Entry to the event is free, but if you want to sample barbecue, microbrew or wine, you will need to purchase a tasting ticket. $2 Ribs will be sold from the Foundation booth throughout the event.
2012 will be the first year that our barbecue event is sanctioned by PNWBA. Battle of the Bones will be the same great event that the public has experienced in the past; however, we will now be backed by an established barbecue association. PNWBA will enforce the rules for the barbecue teams and will assure that all judging is performed consistently with their established barbecue standards.
Website Battle of the Bones

The Park City Area Restaurant Association hosts the fith annual Savor the Summit, a unique celebration of fabulous food, drink and live music. A summer dining experience featuring a nearly mile-long 'Grande Table' staged down the middle of Main Street. The Grande Table provides exquisite dining to more than 2,000 diners in the heart of this Rocky Mountain ski town known for its unique restaurants and comfortable environment.
The Cocktail Contests invite area bartenders to mix, mash and create drinks, while expert judges enjoy uncovering the concoction that best captures the spirit of the season in Park City.
Park Citys best restaurants will showcase their culinary talents in an open air community celebration kicking off the summer season.
Website Savor the Summit

The essential industry event for On-Premise Food and Beverage Professionals. It is the culmination of the finest products and services that are available in the marketplace today on display at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. It is the largest show of its kind and is presented in a tradeshow format with new products and innovations, established brands, products /services for industry professionals, show floor demonstrations,educational programs, drink competitions, and much more
Website The Bar & Wine Show

The Definitive Italian Wine Tasting is the largest Italian wine event in the UK wine trade calendar exclusively for trade professionals and the wine-writing press. The UK's leading specialist importers of Italian wines will be exhibiting at the tasting.
'Italian Journey' Tasting - This supplementary tasting aims to take you on a 'journey' across Italy's wine growing regions sampling the wealth of indigenous varieties available. All exhibitors have been invited to enter samples; all wines must retail at £6.50+ and be made from indigenous varietals.
Website The Definitive Italian Wine Tasting

Once again Snowmass Village hosts its annual Hot Times Chili Cookoff and Sizzlin' Snowmass Regional Championships! Sanctioned by the International Chili Society, both competitions feature Red and Green chili categories and a salsa competition ta' boot. Come on out and vote for your favorite chili in the Peoples Choice Chili Cookoff. Meanwhile, 30 brewers from around the globe face off in the prestigious "Snowmass Summer Ale" competition for their seasonal brew on Friday, followed by a Grand Tasting for a sampling of their latest & greatest on Saturday. Fanny Hill sizzles with hot music all weekend, against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains and scenic Snowmass Village.
Website Snowmass Chili Pepper & Brew Fest

The Seventh annual Salute! North Carolina Wine Celebration uncorks in the streets of Downtown Winston-Salem, with over 30 North Carolina wineries offering tastings and purchase of their harvest. Voted a "Top 20 Event in the Southeast" by the Southeast Tourism Society, this event offers a total experience that highlights the fast-growing North Carolina wine industry in a fun and festive setting. Delicious food selections, musical entertainment and the new "Culinary Village," an interactive and fun educational area will be definite crowd-pleasers
Website Salute! The NC Wine Celebration

Now in its fifth year, Savor: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience has grown increasingly popular. Not only are tickets selling out faster, but more breweries are vying for a chance to serve their beers at the event. This year, 160 breweries entered the lottery to participate. For brewers, a spot at SAVOR can be their ticket to the big time, earning them visibility and-occasionally-a cult following. Earlier this week, 60 breweries were chosen through a lottery system and given the opportunity to pour their beer in Washington, D.C. at the fifth edition of SAVOR. The selected breweries are evenly distributed among eight geographic regions of the U.S. Over 60 percent of this year's breweries were not at the 2011 event. They'll be serving their finest beers, alongside 14 SAVOR supporting breweries, with a fantastic menu designed by Chef Adam Dulye of Monk's Kettle and a select group of chefs specializing in beer and food pairings.
Website Savor

Taking place at the historic Bull Run Regional Park Special Events park, just 20 minutes from Washington DC, Vintage Virginia offers a one-stop-shopping environment, where you can taste before you buy! Take advantage of the opportunity to meet your local winemaker or better still, reserve a spot in the Top 5 Tasting Tent. There you will have the next-step-up experience, sitting at a table while taking a personalized guided tasting tour of Virginia's finest wineries. Stroll the grounds and shop from over one hundred artisans and crafters, indulge in cuisine ranging from Maryland crab cakes to Italian bruschetta while you soak up the funky sounds of the Pimps of Joytime
Website Vintage Virginia

The Virginia Pork Festival, one of the East Coast's largest food festivals, combines outstanding pork dishes with continuous live music, from multiple stages, to make this an event not to be missed.Although the primary goal of the Virginia Pork Festival is to promote the pork industry, it is a nonprofit organization that provides local clubs and civic organizations with an opportunity to raise funds for their respective groups.
Website Virginia Pork Festival

As the world's largest pork-specific trade show, World Pork Expo brings in some 20,000 pork producers and allied industry professionals for three days dedicated to industry innovation. Along with browsing the nearly 500 trade show exhibits, attendees can take part in seminars covering a wide range of pork industry topics including animal well-being, business and environmental management, production efficiencies and more
Website World Pork Expo

Join us in uptown Charlotte the second weekend of June to sample a variety of foods in a friendly atmosphere. Admission to Taste of Charlotte is free. Guests can purchase coins for their food samples and beverages. Enjoy delicious food while you stroll along
Tryon Street visiting local & national sponsors. The festival offers entertainment that is
enjoyable for all ages
Website Taste of Charlotte

Celebrity chefs, popular local restaurants, wineries, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans, and many others from the culinary world will come together for a three day public extravaganza at the new Vancouver Convention Centre. EAT! Vancouver encompasses unique food experiences, opportunities to learn behind-the-scenes culinary magic from professional chefs, dynamic entertainment through celebrity chef cooking demonstrations and culinary competitions, diverse food, beverage and cooking related exhibits; and of course fantastic shopping opportunities. Come for lunch and stay for dinner at Eat! Vancouver's Bite of Vancouver restaurant pavilion. The chefs of favourite Lower Mainland restaurants will serve up appetizer portions of their signature recipes. For a nominal charge ($1.00 - $4.00) per item you will be able to savour the flavours of numerous eateries.
Beer, wine and spirits will be well represented in the Tasting Pavilion where you can sip and taste hundreds of different beverages. Hosted by Daenna Van Mulligen, Vancouver's Wine Diva, the Grapes and Hops Stage will feature presentations and tastings of numerous local and regional beers and wines conducted by a variety of industry experts.
While at Eat! Vancouver, you will also enjoy shopping in the marketplace of over 250 exhibit booths. Producers, manufacturers, retailers and food artisans will showcase a wide assortment of unique products for eating, drinking, cooking, entertaining, and outfitting a kitchen. Exhibits will include everything from gourmet foods to kitchen accessories.
Website EAT! Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival

Join thousands of your colleagues from around the world to learn about the newest trends, products, ingredients, processing technologies, and more, and their potential impact on your business. At this year's event, you'll also find nearly unlimited opportunities to connect with other food professionals - experts from industry, academia, and government who are involved in both the science and the business of food.
Website IFT Food Expo

One of California's largest BBQ contest and festival events. Vote for your favorite BBQ team as they compete for the title of 'Orange County People's Choice Champion' Live Music & Entertainment, Huge Kid Zone, Car Show, Rib Eating Contest, Mr. BBQ Beauty Pagent, BBQ & Beer tasting, and more
Website The Orange County BBQ Festival

The tastiest dates in the summer food calendar with inspiration from top chefs, al fresco dining ideas and top recipes for irresistible picnics and BBQ's.
Website The BBC Good Food Summer Festival

Divino Tuscany is a celebration of Tuscan winemaking excellence that brings together the top winemakers from Tuscany who will promote, share and demystify their top rated wines.
James Suckling, former Senior Editor and European Bureau Chief of Wine Spectator and one of the world's most influential wine critics, and IMG Artists, one of the leading producers of cultural and lifestyle festivals, including the Tuscan Sun Festival, are collaborating on this signature event. Together, consulting with founding vintners from Marchesi Antinori, Frescobaldi, Mazzei, Ricasoli, Il Borro, Petrolo and Castello Banfi, Divino Tuscany will offer a distinctive program that highlights premium wines in one of the most dramatic vinicultural regions of the world. The unique combination of wine, food, culture and history will be experienced throughout. In selecting the wines to be showcased in this exclusive event, Suckling reviewed his ratings over the last two decades and based his decisions on merit and high-quality winemaking. Those who know him understand his deep love for great Italian wine. Having lived in Tuscany for over ten years, Suckling has long recognized the need to create a premium wine event like Divino Tuscany.
Over the course of four incredible days, attendees will experience grand tastings, seminars, special dinners and entertainment - everything about Divino Tuscany has been designed with the highest level of excellence in mind, from the selection of wines to the locations
Website Divino Tuscany

The Festival returns for its 10th spectacular year. This year will feature exclusive wine dinners in select restaurants with winemakers and educators leading the tastings. We will again partner with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for private dinners with exclusive chefs and winemakers to raise money for Discovery and Innovation at UPMC. So far we have partnered with UPMC to help raise 7.50 million dollars over our long and productive partnership. Wineries from around the world will be offered, and over 2,500 attendees will have the opportunity to sample wines and learn about the winemaking craft from hundreds of winery representatives at the event. In addition to tasting, guests will also enjoy delicious gourmet food stations and rousing musical entertainment.
Website Pittsburgh Wine Festival

Crawfish prepared in every imaginable way, fried, boiled, in an étouffée, bisque, boudin, pie or jambalaya, and crawdogs, along with other Cajun favorites: shrimp, crab, gumbo, red beans and rice, just to name a few
Website Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival

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The Maui Onion Festival has been a signature event at Whalers Village since 1990. It's dedicated to the cultivation and promotion of the world-famous Maui Kula Onion and is attended by thousands of visitors and residents every year
Website Maui Onion Festival

the world invite family and friends to their brewing site on the first Saturday in May to celebrate the holiday. Everyone is encouraged to help out with the brew, enjoy the fun and join in on a world-wide toast at noon Central time.
Website Big Brew for National Homebrew Day

Thousands of people enjoy the beers, bangers, bread and other attractions which took place for the second year in the grounds of the historic Ludlow Castle
Not just beer, bread and bangers, you will find plenty of stalls featuring top quality food and drink from small producers up and down the Marches, the Welsh border country. Products that have been produced on a small scale by people who really care that their food and drink should taste good, and be produced with care for the environment. You won't find big brands or supermarkets here! More about the 'Festival Pub' List of Exhibitors
BEER FESTIVAL - organised by SIBA and with the help of CAMRA - inside the 'Festival Pub' 150+ different real ales on draught (bottles too) from independent breweries from Wales and the border counties. Each brewer's entry will be part of a competition organised by SIBA.
Wesite Ludlow Spring Festival

SIAL Canada is the Salon International de l'Alimentation (International Food Expo) which caters to North American food-industry professionals. The show is one of the industry's most important meeting places for North America, hosting around 700 exhibitors and 13,000 visitors from over 60 countries over the course of 3 days each year.
Website SIAL Canada

The focus of the Fair is very much on discovery: new wines and spirits, new producers, emerging countries and regions, new vintage releases, seminars, debates and masterclasses make LIWF the perfect trade event. In all, some 35 countries show over 20,000 wines and spirits making the LIWF a unique trade-only tasting. The free masterclass and briefing programme at LIWF will once again see many of the world's leading producers and industry visionaries take to the stage. Specialist tastings and features are being developed for the on-trade, the off-trade and global importers. There's something for everyone in the trade at LIWF & Distil.
Website London International Wine Fair

Over the past 15 years the Nantucket Wine Festival has blossomed into one of the nation's most celebrated wine and food events. With the help of Nantucket landmark hotel, The White Elephant, most of this year's festival will be staged entirely in the heart of downtown Nantucket. The island's best chefs devise prix fixe lunches and dinners to showcase the wine of the host vinte
Website Nantucket Wine Festival

Wine will be at the forefront of Sial Shanghai more than ever before: an entire hall will be dedicated to wine and spirits. 10 000 members of the wine trade are expected to attend as well as 400 exhibitors. For the first time this year, Bettane & Dessauve will be sharing their "Shanghai Experience" in the shape of a Master class including a selection of about 20 of the greatest names in wine. To date seven international pavilions have confirmed their participation: France of course, but also South Africa, Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. Among these wine producing countries, France will be particularly well-presented with about 30 producers having confirmed their presence in a space of 450m², representing wines from all over France such as the Bordeaux region, Languedoc, Roussillon etc.
Website SIAL China

The International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event 2012 at NRA Show is the only forum in the world focused exclusively on the role of beverage alcohol in the restaurant and hospitality industry. The only venue where more than 4,000 pre-qualified buyers will connect with hundreds of established and emerging beverage alcohol brands. And only one spot where you can get inspired by the sizzle and spark of enlightening demos, education sessions and nighttime networking.
During the International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event 2012 NRA Show, you'll be in the center of a forum that is completely focused around the needs of your foodservice or hospitality operation. You'll learn how beverage alcohol can be key to your profitability, from boosting guest satisfaction to augmenting seasonal menus.
Only at IWSB will you be able to deepen your relationships with established brands and labels plus get introduced to up-and-coming craft beers and niche spirits and wines. You'll also be able to truly experience the potential of beverage alcohol through the Hands-On Demo Center, Restaurant Menu Pairings Program and Star of the Bar mixology competition.
Website NRA Show

Ranked among the top Festivals in the nation, the weekend celebration offers a spectacle of strawberry fun for each and every one. Since 1984, Festival guests have enjoyed award-winning attractions, interactive exhibits, gooey contests, the hottest names in entertainment, the largest collection of Fine Arts & Crafts with 200+ booths, and an unbelievable assortment of delicious strawberry foods and beverages. The Strawberry Promenade offers cooking demonstrations and presentations, Strawberryland For Kids boasts free rides, puppet shows, and more.
Website California Strawberry Festival

Each year the Newberry Watermelon Festival committee works hard to improve the festival and its activities. The watermelons are always provided from a local grower and given to the festival goers for free. Since 1946. Some of the favorite festival activities started many years ago and still continue today. These activities include contests for watermelon eating, seed spitting, hog calling, pie/cake baking, and of course the "Big Melon."
Website Newberry Watermelon Festival

The five-day bacchanalia brings together world-renowned winemakers, celebrated chefs and industry insiders for a showcase of signature events designed to entertain, educate and inspire. Over the past 20 years the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience has raised more than $1 million for non-profit organizations right here in our community, while showcasing local food and chefs, and national and international wines. We invite you to raise a glass and be a part of the festivities as we make New Orleans a better place to live, work and play. This year in an effort to fight hunger and support culinary education, the 2012 beneficiaries will share 100% of the proceeds. Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana will receive 40% and the following will share the remaining 60%: the Louisiana Restaurant Association Education Foundation's ProStart Program, Delgado Culinary Arts School, New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts' Culinary Program, the John Folse Culinary Institute and the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans. 

Website New Orleans Wine & Food Experience

PLMA's 2012 "World of Private Label" International Trade Show will present more than 3,600 exhibit stands including 42 national and regional pavilions. Products on display will include fresh, frozen and refrigerated foods, dry grocery, and beverages as well as non-food categories, including cosmetics, health and beauty, household and kitchen, auto aftercare, garden, and housewares & DIY.
Website PLMA's 2012 World of Private Label

International Trade Fair covering Food & Beverage, Food Catering, Food Technology, Hospitality Service and Retail & Franchise . Thaifex World of Food Asia held in Bangkok, Thailand, is where global players of food and beverage meet. It is the leading trade platform for the food and beverage industry in South East Asia. Based on the world's largest food and beverage trade fair - ANUGA in Cologne, Germany, Thaifex World of Food Asia is a one-stop shop for all in the industry. From processing technology and ingredients to the end products, the trade fair covers all areas of production.
Website Thaifex World of Food Asia

The mission of the World Beer Cup is to create greater consumer awareness around the world about the quality and diversity displayed by the various beers of the world. The World Beer Cup is dedicated to recognizing both the traditions and innovations shared by the entire brewing industry as well as those customs unique to specific countries and regions. The World Beer Cup also promotes the responsible consumption of beer as an alcohol-containing beverage and urges beer producers and distributors to encourage beer enthusiasts to savor the flavor of beer responsibly.
The quality and diversity of beers available around the world prove that brewing excellence knows no borders. Both large and small brewing companies located outside of a style's area of origin are crafting quality beers brewed to traditional styles. Belgian styles in Japan, altbiers in the USA, pale ales in Germany and bock beers in Brazil are just some of the interesting developments in the changing international marketplace. Traditional beer styles are not only celebrated in their native lands, but are now being shared, brewed and enjoyed worldwide. Consumers are discovering and enjoying a wider variety of both traditional and new beer styles, some brewed close to home and others brewed on the other side of the world. The number of new styles and style interpretations appears to be limited only by the creativity of the world's brewing community
Website World Beer Cup

The South Carolina Strawberry Festival is Fort Mill's signature salute to spring. The 2012 Festival will feature live entertainment at the Strawberry Jam; kids rides and activities; strawberry pie, ice cream and recipe contests; pig races; great food from local and regional vendors; arts and crafts; and a car show. On Saturday night, the festival will go out with a bang as a spectacular fireworks display lights up the Fort Mill sky
Website South Carolina Strawberry Festival

Toast of the Town is not just a wine tasting; it is an unforgettable tasting experience. Compare it to the typical wine tasting and you'll see-it is the most unique event you'll attend all year.
Wine tasting: A gathering of people to taste and compare different wines.
Toast of the Town: a gala event held in a world-class venue where you not only sample 500 select wines from around the globe, but savor the finest gourmet dishes from 35 of the local areas top restaurants. All to the sounds of a live jazz band. A veritable playground for oenophiles and foodies. The ultimate night out. That's Toast of the Town
Info Toast of the Town New York

For the eleventh year in a row, the town of Celebration, Florida will become the Pie Capital of the World when thousands of pie lovers, tasters and bakers gather together the Great American Pie Festival The highlight, as always, will be the Never-Ending Pie Buffet, featuring award-winning pie, ice cream, toppings and beverages from some of our fine sponsors. This year, pie lovers from across the country will be treated to sweet offerings by Bakers Square Restaurants and Pies, Bonert's Slice of Pie, California Raisin Marketing Board, J. Horner's Desserts, Kroger's Private Selection, Publix Super Markets, Inc., Rocky Mountain Pies, Tippin's Pies, Smucker's Toppings, The Folger Coffee Company, Village Inn and Wick's Pies. Thousands of children will make their own pies at the Crisco Kids Creation Station. There will be pie decorating, pie scaping, pie tin art and many more pie activities to enjoy. The Pietopia Demonstration Stage sponsored by Village Inn and Bakers Square Restaurants featured entertainment and baking demonstration by chefs from across the country. Of course, no pie festival would be complete without a Pie Eating Contest, sponsored by Private Selection.
Hours: Saturday, April 28, 2012 11AM-7PM, Sunday, April 29, 2012 12-5PM.
Cost: Demonstrations and entertainment are free, Never Ending Pie Buffet $10/adults, $5/seniors 65+, children 5-12. Children's area, including children's pie making, pie eating, bounce houses, crafts, etc. $10/children under 3-12, adults $5.
Website Great American Pie Festival

The Big Nosh is the second annual event to celebrate "everything Jewish" including food, entertainment and education. Of course there will be mouth-watering Jewish foods to eat in or take out ranging from bagels, deli offerings, chicken soup (Jewish penicillin), stuffed cabbage, brisket, baked goods and other highly sought after delectable delights to nosh on.
Website The Big Nosh

The St. Croix Food & Wine Experience - named one of the Ten Best International Food and Wine Festivals by Forbes Travel - brews a showcase of diverse cuisine and wine available on St. Croix each year during its well-anticipated, well-attended event series. Local chefs, celebrity chefs, cooking show personalities and top winemakers from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Texas, Georgia, Oregon and abroad support this prestigious series of events held each year in April on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Website St. Croix Food & Wine Experience

The third annual, Galveston Island Food & Wine Festival 2012: Wines From Around The World, officially begins April 19th. Pour into bliss this April and join us for a special springtime event that transforms Galveston Island's Uptown Entertainment District into a food and wine lover's paradise. With specialty food items, culinary events, sophisticated parties, and live musical entertainment, it is sure to be the event of the year. Enjoy wines from around the world paired with delicious local foods, and learn first-rate tips from popular chefs and renowned winemakers.
Website Galveston Island Food & Wine Festival

This family friendly BBQ festival has grown in leaps and bounds as the recent events have hosted 142 BBQ competitor teams and saw over 35,000 attendees, making it the 2nd largest Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) Competition in the nation.
The festival surrounding the competition is three days of events with entertainment the whole family will enjoy-all for only $2 per person and kids under 12 are free. Pork in the Park offers festival-goers a weekend packed with entertainment options. On Friday night, the Froggy 99.9 Country Showcase is on tap while Saturday features the Mountaire Chicken' Pickin' and Piglet's Korner (free children's area). On Sunday, the 2nd Annual Cornhole Competition returns as the Eastern Shore's Best Wings Competition is introduced and Amateur Backyard BBQer's can show off their skills over the open flame. Complementing these individual events, the festival offers live entertainment, rides and games, unique craft vendors, delicious food and cold beverages for sale all weekend long. Admission is $2 for adults and children under twelve are free.
Competing BBQ teams spend the weekend slicing, seasoning and sizzling pork, chicken and beef in hopes that their cooking will earn them a portion of the $20,000 in cash prizes and invaluable bragging rights on the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) BBQ Circuit. The competition decisions lie in the hands of the KCBS certified professional judges. Judging is done in many categories including whole hog, beef, chicken, pork, ribs, anything butt and a dessert categor
Website Pork In The Park Bbq Festival

Petaluma's Butter & Eggs Parade and Celebration is in its 31st year,and has become a tradition in Downtown Petaluma, celebrating the region's rich agricultural history as one of the premier dairy regions in the country. Activities before, during and after the parade include four blocks of exhibit space for arts and crafts exhibitors, food vendors offering a wide variety of festival foods, sponsor booths, community and non-profit booths and a large area to entertain youngsters with inflatables, rides, and hands-on activities
Info Petaluma Butter & Egg Day 2012

Wine China Expo is committed to providing a direct and effective platform for wine producers, exporters, importers, distributors and connoisseurs to connect and do business successfully. We aim to help exhibitors achieve their goals, meeting potential business partners through our trade expo. Our wine tasting meetings and seminars aim to spread the knowledge of wine and hence boost wine consumption in China
Into its 5th consecutive year, China Wine Expo continues with its highly-lauded 2-city formula-Beijing and Shanghai-allowing its exhibitors to market their wines in two of China's fastest growing regions-the Northern and Eastern-in a time and cost effective manner.
Wine China Expo's comprehensive "Meet The Buyers" supporting programme will bring exhibitors up close and personal with potential business partners among China's top wine importers, bring exhibitors on a guided tour of some wine retail outlets and giving exhibitors unique opportunities to showcase their products at every outing.
Website Wine China Expo

Oil China dates back to 2005. Since then, Oil China has been held 7 times. As the only professional international exhibition of olive oil and edible oil, Oil China has ever been fully supported by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the Ministry of Agriculture, Foreign Trade Bureau of Spain (ICEX), Hellenic Foreign Trade Board (HEPO), Portuguese olive oil association, the embassies of Spain, Greece, Italy, Tunis, Jordan, and other associations and so on. Oil China has become an international exhibition of edible oil with the largest scale and number of oil varieties. Renowned for attracting professional purchasers, distributors and audiences, Oil China has gained the attention of edible oil related corporations around the globe. It's an excellent platform for relevant parties to seek for products marketing and business cooperation.
Oil China will play an important role in promoting higher end oil consumption, thus bring additional business opportunities for exhibitors. A series of activities have been devised to give you more opportunities to demonstrate your products, gain insight to Chinese market and close sales.
Oil China, under the amazing potential market environment, supported by domestic and international enterprises with the professional organization offering: generate publicity, demonstrate products, build business communities, increase sales, meet new prospects, develop relationships with your customers, professional industry learning, and etc. Also Oil China will use different channel to promote the products suit to the target customer following the edible oil classification.
Website Oil China

Grape Day is a one day conference featuring in-depth seminars on the latest advances and developments in viticulture and vineyard management. Who should attend? Winemakers, Winery and Vineyard Owners and Managers and anyone who is interested in wine.
Info Grape Day

The Vale of Evesham is renowned for its production of this most luxurious vegetable - asparagus or "Gras" as it is more locally known. According to tradition - vale season starts on St Georges Day and ends of Midsummers Day because local growers would "never cut beyond the midsummer bud". Numerous events take place throughout the Vale, many of which will be attended by "Gus" the Asparagus Man. Take the opportunity to taste, buy, cook and learn about one of the nations most sought after vegetables. Numerous pubs and restaurants offer extensive asparagus lunch and dinner menus to tempt the palates of locals and visitors Many Hotels, Farmstay guest houses and accommodation providerswill even be offering asparagus of their breakfast menus or buy it straight from the farm shops and cook it any way you like.
Local entrepreneurs have produced mouth watering "goodies" using local asparagus. This includes ice cream jams, chutneys and biscuits sausages and Asparagus soap.
Info The British Asparagus Festival

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast's fabulous Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival - your chance to indulge in all the best bounty of the renowned Mary Valley. Join us on Easter Saturday 7th April 2012 for a memorable farm-to-fork feast. Entry is free. This will be a brilliant day for the whole family
Website Kenilworth Cheese, Wine and Food Festival

Singapore's most esteemed culinary event - World Gourmet Summit celebrates the world's finest flavours, most extraordinary wines and unique dining experiences. An annual gastronomic extravaganza where gourmands are dazzled by an array of delectable discoveries, revel in the presence of world-renowned Michelin-starred and celebrity chefs and indulge in gastronomic delights - one of life's greatest pleasures.
The amazing line-up of specially themed culinary events, wine dinners and masterclasses will undoubtedly make the World Gourmet Summit a truly spectacular and memorable experience
Website World Gourmet Summit

This event features various tastings, gala events, wine dinners, seminars, historic home dinners, a grand Vin de Mer outdoor tasting village, & so much more. We invite you to come experience this one-of-a-kind event in the quaint seaport town of Beaufort, NC where you can enjoy waterfront views from Inns & B&B's, fabulous shopping & a dose of history that will keep you coming back for years to come
Website Beaufort Wine & Food Weekend 

National Automatic Merchandising Association -The NAMA OneShow is the vending, coffee service and foodservice industry's must-attend event, combining NAMA's Spring Expo and National Expo into one spectacular annual event
Website NAMA OneShow

It's the 28th annual Dallas Wine and Food Festival, North Texas' most entertaining and educational food and wine event. Comprised of five signature events held at a variety of Dallas area venues, the Festival showcases local and national culinary talent and award winning wines from The Dallas Morning News/TexSom Wine Competition, one of the largest and most highly regarded wine competitions in the United States. You can experience the Competition's gold medal winning wines at Taste of the World, the Festival's traditional grand finale
Website Dallas Wine and Food Festival

Pebble Beach Food & Wine is the premier epicurean lifestyle event on the West Coast, bringing 6,000 national and international attendees to Del Monte Forest, one of the most picturesque strips of coastline in the world. Hosted primarily at Spanish Bay, the scope of the event encompasses every property in Pebble Beach and uses local and regional staff to create a hedonistic four-day event that matches 250 acclaimed wineries with 75 celebrity chefs, and includes wine and beverage tasting, cooking demonstrations, and some of the most exclusive, unusual dining opportunities available in the world.
Website Pebble Beach Food & Wine

The downtown area will transform into a street fair on Thursday, April 26 when Gatlinburg hosts Ribfest, Wings & BBQ. The purchase of an armband allows sampling until the ribs and wings run out during this popular 11th annual festival will feature musical entertainment, food sampling from 5 to 9 p.m. and loads of atmosphere in the downtown area. Come out and enjoy live entertainment, hot wing eating contests and ice cream eating contests, each promising a wonderfully good time. A panel will judge and award the best ribs or wings in seven categories. All vendors will be vying for the coveted "People's Choice Award" chosen by popular vote. Hot wing eating contests sponsored by All Sauced Up will feature wings prepared in sauces such as "Blazing Bomb," "Treacherous Tongue," "Fire Pit Hell," "Scorching Screaming" and "Next Day Disaster." Prizes will be awarded to the champion. See if you can handle it. The "Vermonster Ice Cream Eating Contest" sponsored by Ben & Jerry's is another highlight of the evening of fun and festivities.
An armband for Ribfest, Wings & BBQ may be purchased for a small donation that allows sampling as long as the ribs and wings last. A portion of the proceeds benefit Gatlinburg Hospitality Association's educational scholarship fund.
Info Ribfest & Wings

Back by popular demand, Long Grove invites you to enjoy the annual Long Grove Chocolate Fest, held on the first weekend of May. You and your family can fill a day - or a weekend - with chocolaty treats, live music, great food and distinctive shopping in charming Long Grove. Enjoy chocolate demonstrations and workshops, wine parings, live music all over town and plenty of children's activities. Besides exceptional dining at our various village restaurants, other favorite foods will be available at dozens of outdoor tents, ranging from delicious sandwiches to smoothies. Food booths are open from 10 am to 6 pm, and Long Grove's restaurants are open well beyond Fest hours. Grab a beer at the Beer/Brat tent and enjoy the live outdoor entertainment
Website Long Grove Chocolate Fest

Our 2012 Festival is shaping up to be a bumper one. With over 80 traders to visit in the Food Hall, 30 real ales and ciders to try in the Yorkshire Dales Real Ale Festival, lots of hands on demonstrations for children in the Farming for Food Area plus cookery demonstrations, dancing, music and Dales livestock to see, there's loads to do for all the family
Website The Dales Festival of Food and Drink

The Poteet Strawberry Festival is one of the oldest, most popular events in the state of Texas. It is recognized as the largest agricultural festival in the state as well as one of the most exciting, dynamic festivals in the Greater Southwest. Held annually in April, the festival has fourteen areas of continuous entertainment featuring concerts with nationally known Country Western and Tejano stars, gunslingers, clowns, puppets, regional bands, various contests, and rodeo performances. There is something for the whole family.
Website Poteet Strawberry Festival

A golden anniversary only comes around once in a lifetime. Since 1962, the Northwest Foodservice Show has been the region's largest and best attended restaurant and foodservice industry event. Come join with more than 5000 foodservice professionals at what will be the Pacific Northwest industry event of the year! Show features include:
• 400+ vendor booths of goods and services - just about anything and everything an owner-operator, manager or purchaser could need or use at their place of business.
• A vast array of free seminars (sponsored by FSA) on issues of importance to the industry.
• Exciting chef demonstrations (sponsored by Sysco) on our Chef Demonstration Stage.
• Optional training opportunities* for ServSafe® certification in food safety and alcohol serving, as well as in first aid, allergy safe compliance and restaurant finance. (*Registration fees required for optional training opportunities)
• Exciting new products and services just coming out or about to be released to the market.
Website Northwest Foodservice Show

The UK's only dedicated trade show for the natural products, health food and organic industries. Discover delicious, authentic food from all the biggest natural and organic food and drink brands plus hundreds of dynamic start ups and speciality artisan producers.
Website Natural & Organic Products Europe

The grills are firing up for 34th Annual Scottsdale Culinary Festival. This year you can look forward to numerous talented chefs, a larger variety of foods to savor and even more captivating entertainment. With a menu of luxurious dinners, chic cocktail parties, and casual feasting favorites, the Scottsdale Culinary Festival has something to satisfy every palate.
Website Scottsdale Culinary Festival

Wine & Gourmet JAPAN is the only dedicated food networking business platform in Japan with the cross segments of visitors to our partner events. With this unique quality, we have an extended pool of buyers from wine & gourmet food importers, retailers, wholesalers, trading companies to hotel and restaurant industries
Website Wine & Gourmet Japan

The Varli Food Festival is an annual food, wine and desserts tasting event that brings the finest Indian chefs from all over the world into the heart of Manhattan. This year the event will showcase the culinary creations of over 60 top-caliber restaurants and caterers, and promote awareness of Indian cuisine and culture. Guests will have the opportunity to sample various dishes from well known local restaurants, as well as many others from as far off as UK, India, Chicago, Virginia and DC. Featuring food and drink tastings, cooking demonstrations by celebrity chefs, a free spice market, a Celebrity Chef CookBook, a full open bar, wine kiosks and several dessert stations, this is an extravaganza like no other. World famous chefs will demonstrate their skills in crafting signature dishes, displaying first-hand the unique art of Indian cooking. These chefs include Master Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, Vikas Khanna, Suvir Saran, Jehangir Mehta, Maneet Chauhan, Hemant Mathur, Prasad Chirnomula, Hari Nayak and many others.
From Master Chef India Judges, to Food Network stars, to Michelin-starred chefs, at this event you will experience the best of the best!. Take a picture at the Celebrity Chef Photo Booth with your favorite, or participate in the Silent Auction to help raise money for the Charity. There is something here for everyone and each guest will receive a free Gift Certificate Booklet ($500 value) granting exclusive access to the finest Indian restaurants.
Website Varli Food Festival

In its third decade, the Taste of Vail is the nation's premier spring food and wine festival, held at several venues throughout North America's most popular mountain resort. During this year's annual, as many as 5,000 people are expected to taste the Vail Valley lifestyle, showcasing world-famous Vail Village and set against dramatic Colorado Mountain High vistas. Participants at the Taste of Vail experience offerings from the Vail Valley's world-class restaurants, fine wine poured by winemakers and winery owners from renowned wineries throughout the world, interactive cooking seminars, the 8th Annual Colorado Lamb Cook-Off & Apres Ski Tasting, the popular Mountaintop Picnic sensory extravaganza at the top of Vail Mountain, the famous Grand Tasting auction and other exciting events.
Website Taste of Vail

very year the Florida Film Festival premieres the best in current independent and foreign cinema. And this year we salute our 21st anniversary by bringing you more of the best. With over 160 cutting-edge films, 100 visiting filmmakers, plenty of special guests, and non-stop events, this festival will do everything to ensure 10-days of Film, Food, and Fun. This year Florida Film Festival marks its 21st anniversary and its 6th year of celebrating special food-centric events. For some cinephiles with movie-packed schedules, the only way to fit in a meal is to grab a bite during a film at Enzian. Others attend every party, event, and dinner. However you balance your love of food and film - there's something delicious for you. It's once again time to celebrate another year of fine food & film at the Florida Film Festival. We're finally 21, and you know what that means. Killer drink specials, great music, and of course - birthday cake. So head to Eden Bar and celebrate with new friends and old. This will certainly be a party to remember.
Webite Florida Film Festival

This festival is hosted to not only promote the strawberry farmers and the industry they have dedicated their lives to, but to give non-profit organizations from around the state the opportunity to raise money for their scholarships or organizations by selling delicious Southern food while demonstrating what the great city of Ponchatoula is all about: family, fun, food, entertainment, and most of all, downright Southern hospitality.
Website Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival

The Alabama Chicken and Egg Festival is a weekend event with food vendors, live entertainment on the Chicken Stage, educational exhibits, children's activities, arts and crafts fair and much more. In previous years officials recorded more than 15,000 people in attendance. The event is organized by the Lawrence County Arts Council and made possible through the effort of more than 600 volunteers
Website Alabama Chicken & Egg Festival

The 4th Annual Rhythm & Vine will feature over 60 world-class wineries, spirits and breweries, 35 restaurants and gourmet foods and live musical performances. Music, wine and food lovers will experience the best of all three worlds at this unforgettable celebration under the stars. Rhythm & Vine features wineries and winemakers from wine growing regions around the world pouring their wines, gourmet cuisine from the finest chefs of San Diego County, lifestyle silent auction and performances from a variety of music genres.
All proceeds from Rhythm & Vine benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego. One fun-filled night of music, sipping wine and sampling the best food in the city will help contribute to the over 25,000 youth the Boys & Girls Clubs support each year. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego changes lives through high-quality youth programs and guidance in a safe, affordable, and fun environment.
Website Rhythm & Wine

The " Atlantic Bakery Expo " has grown to be the largest bakery exposition on the east coast, offering educational programs, networking opportunities, product information and many contests for decorators and bakers.
The 2012 show has been expanded to include vendors not only from the baking industry but now also from deli, cheeses, prepared foods and salty snacks segments. The show will now be the largest food show of its kind on the east coast
Website Atlantic City Bakery Show

Mouth-watering cuisine, live auction, treasure chest drawing, cash bar, live entertainment, sample food stations from local restaurants, caterers and chefs. Bring your appetites and your friends After you have your fill of food and libations, sit back and take in the music and our fabulous live auction featuring generous culinary packages
Info Taste of Rockport

More Than 50 KCBS TEAMS from around the U.S. will compete against each other and local teams for more than $12,000 in Cash & Prizes. This year's event will also feature 60+ local teams competing in the Backyard Boogie and the Lamar Outdoor Advertising Chicken Little Contest, making this event the largest BBQ event in the State of Louisiana for the 9th year in a row. The event also features local Bands from around the region playing music on the Northshore Broadcasting stage both Friday night and Saturday
Website Smokin' Blues & BBQ Challenge

Join us at the festival for a great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Your admission buys you a sampling glass so you can enjoy an All-You-Care -To-Taste sampling of beer and bourbon. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and live music all day
Info Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival Timonium

The Food & Wine Festival - Palm Desert will gather the brightest and most inspired chefs from California for two extraordinary days of culinary and wine tasting. This event will be uniquely educational in focus, showcasing the Coachella Valley as a culinary destination.
On Friday, March 23 enjoy a sit down 4-course gourmet luncheon paired with wonderful wines and hosted by celebrity chefs. Both Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25 attendees will walk through and experience Fine Dining at its best from over 45 of the top award winning restaurants and their accompanying chefs from throughout California.
Young's Market-The Estates Group has pulled out all the stops to feature their top 65 brands including: Piper-Heidsieck, Hall, Alexander Valley Vineyards, Sonoma-Cutrer, Hess Collection, Whitehall Lane Winery, Dutton-Goldfield and a selection of vintages and varietals from the impressive portfolio of Wilson Daniels including: Schramsberg, Roth, Lancaster, Clos-Pegase, Gainey Vineyards and Wilson-Daniels Wines.
Another unique aspect of the festival is that each restaurant has provided their menu in advance so that our team of experts can specifically pair their cuisine with a particular varietal or brand that most compliments the food they are serving. Each attendees palate will take a euphoric journey through the festival space as each winery will be placed adjacent to the restaurant it is paired with for maximum culinary impact.
This Festival is the only one of its kind on the West Coast because it benefits the premiere culinary school in the United States, the Culinary Institute of America's Endowed Scholarship Fund. The Culinary Institute of America is the recognized leader in culinary education for undergraduate students, food service and hospitality professional, and food enthusiasts. The college awards bachelor's and associate degrees, as well as certificates and continuing education units
Website Food & Wine Festival - Palm Desert

This event is for the whole family to enjoy. Throw out the lawn chairs and picnic blankets and prepare to witness Chandler's largest and best BBQ event. Live entertainment, all ages Kid's Zone, Bike Show with the traditional backyard BBQ atmosphere, this is sure to be a finger licking good time
Website American BBQ & Beer Festival

At the annual healthy vegetarian food festival you can:
• Taste free food samples, over 500 different kinds to try;
• See cooking demonstrations by chefs from all over the country;
• Hear the latest information on nutrition from our medical doctors;
• Choose from a huge selection of books;
• Buy our latest book, Say No to Meat! The 411 on Ditching Meat and Going Veg; our updated guide book, Vegetarian Pacific Northwest; our new cookbook, The Veg-Feasting Cookbook, and The Vegetarian Solution, your answer to cancer, heart disease, global warming and more. Current and renewing members are able to buy these books at an extra special discount at any Vegetarians of Washington event. Visit our membership table at Vegfest to learn more
Info Vegfest

The Virginia Food and Beverage Expo is a unique marketplace that connects food and beverage buyers directly with impressive Virginia food and beverage products. Many of the products already have a huge following, while others are brand new to the marketplace and are on the verge of becoming the next big buy of the season.
Tradition of Taste 2012, open exclusively to buyers, will feature hundreds of culinary creations and specialty dishes made in Virginia that are properly packaged and labeled for the retail setting. Retailers, wholesalers, distributors, foodservice representatives and those in search of private label brands are sure to walk away pleased after placing orders on the show floor. The show is not open to the public and there is no cost to attend.
Virginia specialty foods and beverages have earned exceptional reviews from celebrity chefs, restaurateurs, and gourmet food editors, in addition to major retail, grocery and specialty buyers. The Virginia Food and Beverage Expo is only held every other year, providing buyers with a true taste of the latest and greatest products to hit the market.
100 + Virginia Exhibitors showcasing products including coffee, chocolates, confections, cheeses, cold beverages, baked goods, meats, seafood, pasta, peanuts, snacks, cookies, condiments, dressings, sauces, seasonings, Virginia wine, certified organic products and much more
Info Virginia Food and Beverage Expo - Tradition of Taste

o Enjoy more than 40 wineries under one roof - rain or shine.
o Learn how to taste AND make wine.
o Sample gourmet olive oils.
o Watch cooking demonstrations.
o Relax on the "Cigar and Port" patio.
o Browse wine and grape themed vendors, included fabulous wine barrel furniture.
o Get an up close look at the latest grape growing and harvesting equipment.
o Nibble on tasty treats from some of the area's finest food purveyors.
o Enter to Win! The Ultimate Wine Basket of over 100 bottles of wine and other goodies (proceeds benefit the Lodi Grape Festival Bucks-for-Books Scholarship Fund).
o Beautiful commemorative wine glass.
o No driving from winery to winery ... it's all here for you!
Tickets are $30.00 in advance through March 29th (Day of show at the door $35.00.)
Tickets are on sale now by using the form below, and available March 1st at the Lodi Grape Festival office, Lodi Avenue Liquors, Lodi Wine Cellars, Raley's Camera Department, Van Ruiten Family Winery and cellardoor. There is a $3 processing fee for tickets ordered online or over the phone
Website Lodi Spring Wine Show

Taste Washington is known for outstanding wine, but be sure to saddle up to some of the great dishes being served this year. Some of Seattle's top restaurants will be on hand to prepare their favorite treats. Hip, new restaurants and longtime favorites alike will tempt you with delicious fare. Taste Washington has been expanded to two days in 2012. Twice the time to taste your favorite wines from over 200 Washington wineries, meet the state's ground-breaking winemakers and sample fare from the state's premier restaurants
Website Taste Washington

Pizza & Pasta Expo is Europe's leading gathering for pizza and Italian catering professionals.
This mixture of sorts is giving rise to new concepts such as "Italian cafés", "restaurants/delicatessens", "new-look trattorias", where the pizza is combined with an offer of pasta, antipasti, panini, bruschettas, ice cream, wines and coffees.
Organised in partnership with the professional assiociations, the Pizza & Pasta Expo will enjoy the support of an international advertising campaign aimed at buyers in the out-of-house catering sector, specialised shops and supermarket/hypermarket chains in France and Europe.
Website Pizza & Pasta Expo

This year again, the organisers will address the question of Halal product merchandising by setting up a sales area dedicated to Halal ranges, a true reflection of the changes in store shelf space. Halal Expo has become the must-attend event to facilitate discussions between manufacturing companies and the buyers from the traditional distribution circuits, the major retailers and the restaurant/catering sector. Halal Expo's exhibitors are manufacturers, importers or distributors of Halal products
Website Halal Expo

For one night only, sample culinary creations from some of the best kitchens in Boston and get a taste of how delicious a night out in the South End can be. Attendees will enjoy bite-sized versions of dishes taken directly from the menus of their favorite restaurants, plus live cooking demonstrations, a silent auction and raffle, extensive wine tasting and beer sampling. Admission includes unlimited sampling from more than 40 of the South End's finest restaurants plus complimentary fine wine, cocktails and more.
Each year, Taste of the South End is the talk of the town, delivering a spectacular evening of food and wine tasting in support of a vital community organization.
"The Taste of the South End is Boston's premier food & wine event in our neighborhood and it brings together all of the South End chefs for the AIDS Action Committee. It is a fine way to both raise money for a wonderful organization that does vital work in our community and also have fun saying hello to friends, neighbors and colleagues. I would not miss this event for the world," said participating chef Gordon Hamersley.
Website Taste of the South End

National Agriculture Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless other across America join together to recognize the contributions of agricolture
Website National Agriculture Day

Over four days, visitors will once again be invited to create their dream degustation, dining from a bespoke tasting menu prepared by a selection of Sydney's leading and hatted restaurants. Over 40 mouth-watering dishes will be on offer to tempt tastebuds, with award-winning wineries, artisan producers and boutique exhibitors all on hand for visitors to sip, sample and shop from
Website Taste of Sydney

The show is one of the most anticipated events in the cake lover's calendar, celebrating everything to do with the amazing art of cake decorating, chocolate and sugarcraft.
The three-day event attracts thousands of enthusiasts from all over the world who come to see displays, watch demonstrations, discover new trends and techniques, buy the latest products and learn more about their favourite pastime or profession
Website Squires Kitchen's Annual Cake Decorating, Chocolate and Sugarcraft Exhibition

Trade exhibition for pubs, hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes making up the northern hospitality industry: Culinary Entertainment, Best of Fine Food, Grape, Grain & Bean, Liquor Theatre, NRB Bar
Website Northern Restaurant & Bar

Set amid the backdrop of the historic 69th Armory on Lexington Avenue, the famous building where the movement called Modern Art was first presented to the American public in 1913, including the just-completed Marcel Duchamp canvas, "Nude Descending a Staircase," guests will be invited to sample delicious cuisines that would otherwise require days of travel.
Featuring 50+ restaurants and food from over 35 nations, including Vietnamese, Italian, Uzbekistani, Brazilian, Cambodian, Russian, Tunisian, and Cajun/Creole among many others, Choice Eats stands out as a food event that highlights the hidden gems of New York City's diverse culinary landscape. Only guests ages 21 and over admitted
Website Choice Eats

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International Pizza Expo is the world's largest pizza-only trade show. Pizza-related products and services are represented exclusively on the show floor. Educational seminars, cooking demonstrations and other programming address the specific needs and concerns of pizza operators. You can compare and evaluate products and services, negotiate great deals on the spot and watch product demonstrations. At the same time, you'll be able to network and share ideas with your peers from throughout the world
Website International Pizza Expo

This fun food festival event features: wine tastings, cooking classes, special menu presentations, brewery tours, tapas crawls, cook-offs, dine-arounds and many more creative combinations, culinary delights, and fun activities on the Outer Banks. It involves over 50 restaurants.
The OBX Grand Tasting on Sunday, March 18th, will be the hottest ticket in town with about 30 area restaurants and beverage vendors serving a sampling of original hand prepared foods, fine wines and beers from around the world. Restaurants will be competing for the 3rd Annual TOB'y Awards; Best Booth Presentation, Best In Show, Best
Outer Banks Cuisine, and the two top awards, the Chefs Award and People's Choice Award.
The Outer Banks Taste of The Beach Weekend is a fantastic way to sample the fare of several fine restaurants on the Outer Banks in one fun-filled, food-centric weekend Casual chefs to full-on foodie fanatics will revel in innovative culinary opportunities offered up by members of the Outer Banks Restaurant Association. You can indulge in a fancy wine dinner one night and mix with the masses in an organic farm to fork experience the next. Or maybe an intimate cooking class with one of the area's world class chefs is more your speed.
Freshness is the hallmark of dining on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Offering much more than just seafood, the barrier islands are home to over 160 locally owned and operated restaurants. You'll be delighted by a diverse offering of culinary delights in unique settings, with menus dreamed up by the finest-trained chefs.
Website Outer Banks Taste of The Beach

The Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival 2012 will hold over 30 innovative events for lovers of wine, food, nightlife and culture in Cancun, including:
Not one, but 24! of the best star chefs of the continent will be exploring what they can do with the finest Mexican ingredients at the tribute to mexico Opening Dinner.
Have you ever watched a mixologist action? The master of them all, Junior Merino, THE LIQUID CHEF, will be at work at our Catamaran Cruise and our After Dark Parties. Discover the best wines 90+, tequilas and artisanal mezcales at our Wines and Spirits Tastings, led by the Americas' Best Sommeliers
Combine the Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival with world class beaches, awesome Mayan sites, Spanish haciendas and colonial villages, magical underground pools, ecological parks and a wide variety of hotels for all budgets.
The Festival is committed to giving back to our community. The beneficiary for year one is the Ciudad de la Alegria - The City of Joy. We will be supporting its goal to empower disadvantaged children, victims of violence and care for the elderly
Website Cancun-Riviera Maya Wine & Food Festival

The Iowa Wine Growers Association invites you to join them for what is expected to be an exciting 2012 Annual Conference. The 2012 conference will focus on the needs of the Midwest grape and wine industry
This two day conference will feature:
• Pruning Clinic and Open House at Kirkwood Vineyards & Winery
• Educational Sessions which include focuses on Enology, Marketing & Viticulture
• Friday Night Iowa Wine Reception
• Saturday Night Wine Banquet
• IPAD Drawing - Sponsored by the Iowa Wine & Beer Promotion board.
Info IWGA Annual Conference

Vinitaly is the main reference event in the wine sector: the 2011 edition welcomed more than 4 thousand exhibitors over a show area of 95 thousand square metres, with 156 thousand visitors (more than 50,000 international from more than 110 countries).
Four days of major events, meetings, tastings and targeted workshops to encourage contacts between exhibiting cellars and trade operators, together with an impressive convention programme discussing and analysing topics associated with supply and demand in Italy, Europe and the rest of the world.
Website Vinitaly

Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Expo. Hundreds of extra virgin olive oil lables on show: Pdo cert., Pgi cert., organic, flavored, italian, foreign, light or intense. Confirmed olive oil producers on show from all Italian territories: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino Alto Adige, Umbria, Veneto as well as Slovenia and Croatia.
Website Olio Capitale

Savor Dallas is a celebration of wine, food, spirits and the arts featuring over 65 top chefs, hundreds of great wines, spirits and beers, and your chance to drink-in the arts.
Website Savor Dallas

Co-located with International Boston Seafood Show/Seafood Processing America, New England Food Show (NEFS) is the largest regional trade event serving buyers and suppliers in the foodservice and retail markets. You will find hundreds of food and beverage products that range from ingredients and menu items to packaged product for the shelf, and the equipment, products and services necessary to prep, serve, display and sell. The show also features a variety of educational and entertaining special events that allow you to conduct business, gain information and have fun
Website New England Food Show

International Boston Seafood Show/Seafood Processing America is North America's largest seafood event, featuring more than 900 exhibits, offering a vast array of seafood, seafood products, seafood services and seafood equipment from all over the world.
• Find the hot, new seafood products and trends hitting the market
• Make connections with the right people to help expand your seafood business.
• Uncover ideas and strategies that will increase your profits and move you ahead of the competition.
With conference sessions featuring industry thought leaders, the New Product Showcase and the New Product Awards Competition, the 6th Annual Oyster Shucking Contest, and NFI's Annual Chowder Party, there's multiple opportunities to connect with the industry, see new products, and uncover new ideas.
The International Boston Seafood Show and Seafood Processing America take place right next door, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, to the New England Food Show - the largest regional trade event serving buyers and suppliers in the foodservice and retail markets.
Website International Boston Seafood Show

The world's largest, most comprehensive trade show devoted exclusively to the international snack food industry, SNAXPO brings together owners, executives and buyers from every segment of the industry. SNAXPO is your best opportunity to capture new business, generate quality leads and promote your brand - plus exhibiting at SNAXPO 2012 gives you unmatched exposure to over 1,500 domestic and international snack food management professionals.
Full Equipment Show
SNAXPO 2012 in Phoenix will be a full equipment show so there will be plenty of big equipment on hand. Attendees will have the chance to learn firsthand in a single setting about the newest equipment and innovations for snack food manufacturing.
Website SNAXPO

EuroGastro is the most important trade fair in Poland for the HoReCa sector featuring a complete offering for the gastronomic industry. EuroGastro hosts national and international competitions of confectionery, bartending and barista maestros. EuroGastro is not just a business meeting platform but also an opportunity to acquire expertise about the latest trends in the industry, and a place where products and services of leading manufacturers can be compare
Website EuroGastro

The international leading trade fair for the wine and spirits business. In a few weeks' time ProWein will open its doors and over 3,800 exhibitors from some 50 countries will present high-calibre wines and spirits to the expected 40,000 trade visitors from throughout the world
Website ProWein

The largest business platform for the food and drinks, distribution and hospitality sectors in Portugal. The event brongs together the two most important food and hospitality exhibitions in the country. One great exhibition and three trade shos with their own personalità: Alimentaria, Horexpo and Tecnoalimentaria. An esceptional opportunity for exhibiting compagnie and visitors from the hospitality industry, distribution and food&drinks industry to obtain the maximum benefit.
Website Alimentaria & Horexpo Lisbon

MDD expo is the private label event held yearly in France food & non-food products for the private label market. Exhibitors produce & supply private labels, visitors are buyers & decision makers from retail, wholesale, Food Services & HoReCa sectors.
MDD EXPO is the only event in France, gathering all the channels of distribution around six sectors :
• Grocery & Beverages,
• Frozen & Fresh food,
• Meat & Seafood,
• Dairy,
• Non Food,
• International and Regional Pavilions .
This exclusive offer is developing, especially with the Non-Food extending each year at MDD EXPO as in the shelves. In 2012, the ambition of this sector is to reach 1000 m² of exhibition.
Website MDD EXPO

The 37th International Food and Beverage Exhibition. The event is a platform for exhibitors and visiting buyers to meet and interact, offering key opportunities for dynamic discussions and business possibilities to enter Asian and global markets.
Website Foodex Japan

The Florida Strawberry Festival® is full of traditions. One of the most obvious traditions is the volunteer spirit that prevails, it has served to preserve and enhance the agricultural and historical legacy of the strawberry.
Exhibits of agriculture, commerce, industry, livestock, fine arts, horticulture, and crafts await you. Ethnic traditions, social events, competitive contests, youth developmental programs, top-name entertainment, parades, marching bands moving.
Website Florida Strawberry Festival

The Festival is a celebration of excellence in food, wine and Charleston's renowned culture for the benefit of local charities.. The mission of the Charleston Wine + Food Festival, a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is to enhance Charleston's culinary reputation and support important charitable endeavors by focusing national attention on the entertainment, education and gastronomical gratification opportunities presented by world class culinary professionals and wine experts.
Website BB&T Charleston Food and Wine Festival

Food and wine lovers in their hundreds and thousands each year indulge in more than 300 events that fill Melbourne's labyrinthine network of restaurants, laneways, lights-turned-down basements and dizzying rooftops as well as spilling into spectacular regional Victoria.
Beyond the buzz of the Festival in March, you can visit us here to browse hundreds of other food and wine events taking place year-round across Victoria, showcasing the very things that make Melbourne - and our surrounding regions - such a gastronomic playground: an abundance of fresh seasonal produce, bustling food markets, innovative chefs and their award-winning restaurants, expert winemakers, the warmest of hospitality and passionate artisan producers.
Website Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Canada's Foodservice & Hospitality Marketplace. Visitors will experience a full line-up of industry specific seminars, educational workshops and presentations with strategies for new approaches in the foodservice sector. Attendees will also meet celebrity chefs and industry personalities participating in culinary competitions and cocktail contests on the Kraft and Garland stages throughout the three-day event.
Website CRFA Show

Take a trip back in time to the roaring 1920s at Prohibition: Wine & Dine. Join guys and dolls at San Diego's hottest new joint for the year's most talked about event. Shimmy to the sounds of the 20s on the non-stop dance floor, indulge in tastings from premium wine and food purveyors and bid on items at the exciting silent auction. Learn the secret "password" and gain access into the local speakeasy, where you can enjoy specially handcrafted prohibition era cocktails and try out your luck on the casino game floor.
Tickets are currently on sale and pricing goes as follows: $150 in advance - $200 at the door
Proceeds from the event enables ElderHelp, a San Diego-based non-profit, to provide support services to San Diego's growing population of seniors to help them remain independent in their own homes. For more information on Wine & Dine, call 619-694-4862
Website Wine & Dine

Over 150 wineries, all members of Family Winemakers of California, will be at the Del Mar Fairgrounds for the association's 4th annual appearance in San Diego. This highly anticipated trade and consumer tasting showcases California's small, family-owned wineries. Wine enthusiasts have the unique opportunity to meet winemakers and winery-owners, taste from over 800 different wines and explore the ever-increasing range of wine varietals and blends that today's California wineries are producing. Tickets go on sale January 20. Ticket prices for "Tasting 2012" are as follows: Early Bird though February 20: $45 February 21 - March 10: $55
At the door: $65 Limited offer! Admission during trade segment (75 tickets only): $75. 1:00-3:00pm Trade Only Tasting. 3:00-6:00pm Trade and Public Tasting
Info Tasting 2012

For the fifth year in a row the International Day of Italian Cuisines comes back. Once again it will be a worldwide celebration of authentic and quality Italian Cuisine. The IDIC 2012 official dish is Ossobuco in gremolata alla milanese, another landmark of Italian Cuisines originated in Milan, Region of Lombardia. The by now traditional global ola of Ossobuco in Gremolata alla Milanese will be once again headed by hundreds of GVCI associates from more than 40 countries but any Italian Food lover or any lover of good food can be a part of this unique event. Joining the celebration is easy: just, fill in this form and prepare Ossocuco con Gremolata on January 17, 2012 according to the authentic recipe. The previous editions of the IDIC celebrated Spaghetti alla carbonara, Risotto alla milanese, Tagliatelle al ragù bolognese and Trenette al pesto Genovese
Info International Day of Italian Cuisines

A spectacular evening of sampling sweet and savory gourmet delights from south Florida's renose restaurants, caterers and more. Great food and wine, music and entertainment make this a truly decadent evening. Presented by the Junior League of Boca Raton
Website Annual Chocolate Decadence

In a magical setting of ice sculptures, 24 of the leading ice cider producers in Quebec will showcase their ciders and share their passion and their knowledge with you. Some 20 agri-food producers will also be on hand to tell you about their cheeses, chocolates, foie gras, and other fine terroir products, and they will have you taste their authentic products.
Website Mondial des cidres de glace

A delectable Valentine's Day weekend extravaganza for the chocoholic in all of us, which will benefit local and regional charities and non-profit organizations
Website Chocolate Lovers' Festival

The Festival is a week long celebration of wine, cuisine and culture that shines a light on DC as a prominent and world-class dining and travel destination that culminates in a two day tasting of food and wines
Website Washington DC International Wine & Food Festival

World Ag Expo is the largest annual agriculture exposition celebrating 45 years of innovative agriculture with:
• 1,600 exhibitors displaying the latest in farm equipment, chemicals, communications, and technology on 2.5 million square feet of exhibit space.
• Free seminars on a variety of topics important to dairy producers, farmers, ranchers and agribusiness professionals.
• Cooking demonstrations by chefs from California's top restaurants in the World Ag Women Pavilion.
Website World Ag Expo

The Trade Show dedicated to Pizza, Pasta and Italian Catering
Parizza is hosting a new event this year dedicated to pizza acrobatics. 4 teams of 4 persons each will compete before a panel of experts. Attend breathtaking demonstrations by virtuoso pizza chefs from: USA - United Kingdom - Italy - Spain
Exclusively for Parizza, a survey of the pizza sector in France was carried out by CHD Expert in December 2010 based on a panel of 187 pizzerias and Italian restaurants. Objective: To assess the state of pizzerias in the past year and evaluate the prospects for 2011: This survey was repeated in February and June 2011. A final wave has been scheduled for January 2012 and the results will be announced at the show

Webste Parizza

Located in Reedsport, this event is like no other on the Oregon Coast. At no other Oregon Coast festival will you find all of these elements brought together in one place. Hence the name: Confluence.
Oregon wineries and microbreweries will offer tasting's and sales of their premium wines and micro-brewed beer. Bands from the Washington, Portland, Eugene, Coos Bay, Reedsport and Bandon areas will perform various genres of music throughout the weekend
Website Wine, Beer, Seafood & Music Festival- 2012 Confluence

Winefest is back to indulge Edmonton. Enjoy the chance to sample hundreds of local and international wines, port, sparkling, and dessert wines from the world's most celebrated wine regions. 'Try before you buy' in Winefest's casually refined atmosphere - every sip and sample is included in your ticket. Wine experts will be available to share their knowledge as you taste your way from booth to booth, suggesting tasting notes while educating your palate and senses. Savour a delicious selection of hors d'oeuvres, including gourmet cheeses, olives, chocolates and scrumptious samples from the Shaw Conference Centre.
Website Winefest Edmonton

Winefest Calgary is back to spoil your senses. Enjoy the chance to sample hundreds of local and international wines, port, sparkling and dessert wines from the world's most celebrated wine regions. 'Try before you buy' in Winefest's casually refined atmosphere - every sip and sample is included in your ticket. Wine experts will be available to share their knowledge as you taste your way from booth to booth, suggesting tasting notes while educating your palate and senses. Savour a delicious selection of hors d'oeuvres, including gourmet cheeses, olives, chocolates and scrumptious samples from Stampede Catering.
Website Winefest Calgary

The Victoria Tea Festival is the largest public tea exhibition in North America and is hosted in the tea capital of Canada. Consumers and businesses alike can indulge in an interactive and educational tea experience exploring the traditions and trends of tea, while supporting a worthy cause. The weekend event features tea tastings, tea-food selections, complimentary presentations, and opportunities to purchase tea, tea-related products, and exquisite tea wares. A Silent Auction is also offered. It's a one stop shop for all things tea
Website Victoria Tea Festival

The Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, a non-profit organization founded by Meadowood Napa Valley, the Napa Valley Vintners trade association and The Culinary Institute of America, draws top wine book authors and editors, wine magazine writers and critics, newspaper wine columnists, bloggers and other wine content creators to Napa Valley to speak, listen, debate, explore themes prevalent in contemporary wine writing and network with their peers for four days. A combination of lectures, panel discussions, group and individual writing sessions, wine tasting and fine dining make the symposium an unmatched career enrichment opportunity for editorial wine, wine-food, and wine-travel writers. The symposium is not open to winery personnel and marketing and communications professionals. A portion of the cost of the program is underwritten by the Napa Valley Vintners, a non-profit organization representing more than 300 wineries, and by Meadowood Napa Valley. Meadowood, which is also the annual home to Auction Napa Valley, continues its 30-year tradition of service to the Napa Valley winegrowing community by providing a venue for the conference. The symposium follows an intense plenary program for a limited number of attendees plus speakers
Website The Symposium for Professional Wine Writers

With a theme of BBQ Coast to Coast -Bold Flavors and Bright Ideas, the conference will feature educational seminars, restaurant tours, networking opportunities, barbecue all-stars and even a cooking competition
Website NBBQA National Conference and Trade Show

It's the premier seafood & wine event of the west coast and the original Northwest seafood and wine festival. Artists and Craftsmen will show-case a variety of fine art, sculpture, photography, pottery, and jewelry. Pacific Northwest Wineries will be pouring the finest of wines and culinary professionals will serve cuisines of delectable delights sure to entice our palates
Website Newport Seafood & Wine Festival

Featuring hundreds of bottles of fine Virginia wine, specialty food, gourmet luncheons, and wine and food pairing seminars, the Virginia Wine Expo offers the best opportunity all year to learn about, taste and buy Virginia wine- Ticket packages are available for single events, various combinations, as well as for groups on Saturday and Sunday.
Website Virginia Wine Expo

This show held at the height of the season, aims to bring together the world's best producers of Beer, Wine and Spirits. With the participation of Importers, Wholesalers, Distributors and Retailers that comprise the fabled Three-Tier Distribution system of alcoholic beverages in the United States, together with an enthusiastic and knowledgeable crowd of consumers, the event caters to both markets in a very exciting brand oriented environment.
With an extensive array of wines and spirits from around the world, and South Florida's finest culinary delights; Miami Wine & Spirits Expo creates an experience like no other for visitors. Businesses are given the opportunity to showcase their brands; contact importers, distributors, retailers, and present their products directly to the public in a true Expo setting and not simply a fair or festival environment
Website Miami Wine & Spirits Expo

The Winter Festival is a unique opportunity to sample some of the best beers in the world, all brewed in Michigan. There will be more more than 50 Michigan craft breweries and 300 different beers available to sample. The event is open from 1:00-6:00pm. Enthusiast Members of the Michigan Brewers Guild will be allowed to enter the Festival an hour early at Noon. The Festival will take place in the outfield parking lot at the ballpark and breweries will be located within several large tents. The tents, combined with body heat will help take the edge off the temperature, but please recognize that the Festival is an outdoor event and dress accordingly. Hats, mittens, boots and long-johns are recommended to keep you warm. We are planning to have warming fires again, but only if the weather cooperates with low wind conditions. It would be helpful if everyone could hoist a Michigan beer and do a fair weather dance.
15 drink tokens are included with a ticket and each token is good for one 3 ounce beer sample. Additional tokens are available for purchase inside the Festival for 50 cents each. Local West Michigan bands will be the featured live entertainment. Food will be available for purchase. Festival attendees must be 21 years of age or older and have ID to enter. Designated Drivers are encouraged and DD tickets will be available for $5 each.
Website Winter Beer Festival

The B2B event for the food and beverage sector that invites to experiment all the innovations for eating out: tastes, ideas and trends featured in the Innovation Area.
At the beginning of the year, it is an interesting preview of products for the national and foreign markets, thanks to the online marketplace that brings exhibitors and buyers from all over the world together.
It brings together beverage, food and seafood for the Ho.Re.Ca. channel. (a market that has exceeded 70 billion euros, with further growth prospects), creating an absolutely unique appointment for all the chain´s trade members, with interesting openings for Large-scale Distribution on the dedicated day
Website Sapore

MIA is the section of Sapore dedicated to products for catering, Italian and foreign food and beverage specialities, organic and gluten-free product, which are attracting increasing attention on behalf of both collective and commercial food service. A specific area is dedicated to pizza, with contests, demos and lessons on alternative flours and products for those suffering from celiac disease.
As well as trade members from the Ho.Re.Ca. channel, the event involves large distributors (by means of the Large-scale Distribution Buyers' Day, now at its fourth edition, organized on Tuesday with round tables and meetings with companies) and foreign buyers from various parts of the world.
Website MIA

The section of Sapore dedicated to beverages has a new format
Selezione Birra is the trendy area, dedicated to special beers, niche products, and a wide variety of Italian and foreign craft beers, that cannot be found anywhere else. In Rimini it will be possible to take part in round tables, guided tasting sessions, contests, make contacts with the trade members, with the public venues owners and with the foodservice market.
Beverage & Co is the area dedicated to the entire beverage world from mineral waters to fruit juices, energy drinks, liquors, coffee and hot drinks. It will host new products, launch new trends or venue formats, contact ones´ own clients in particularly beverage wholesalers, who have always chosen Rimini as their meeting point, and the public venue owners
Website Selezione Birra - Beverage & Co

DiVino lounge - wine, food and more
An event whose strong point is the meeting between wine and the catering(food service trade and proposes new methods of consumption for the Ho.Re.Ca market. It is held at the beginning of the year, an ideal period for previewing one´s company and products ond the national and international markets, thanks to the one-to-one scheduled appointments with the buyers
Website DiVino Lounge

MSE - Mediterranean Seafood Exhibition
MSE is the section of Sapore that has an established role as the only business-to-business appointment in the Mediterranean area featuring the entire seafood chain: from fresh to frozen produce and oven-ready dishes to preserved specialities, not to mention equipment and processing systems.
An extremely professional context with a high international profile, which involves major European trade associations and institutions in a series of side events with a purely technical-scientific and political-institutional slant, aimed at highlighting the Seafood & Processing entire seafood sector.
Website MSE

Frigus - Frozen Food Show
Frigus is the section of Sapore (unique in Italy) specialized in frozen products and the refrigeration cycle and held with the sponsorship of the IIAS - Italian Frozen Food Institute. The event is now a reference point for all members of the eating out sector, as well as large-scale distribution buyers, who attend the expo on the day dedicated to them.
The frozen food sector has had an upward trend for years, above all in food service, with excellent opportunities for the future, thanks to the wide request. Innovation, service, fast preparation and quality are the winning components.

Website Frigus

Oro Giallo - International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Exhibition
Four days for:
• spreading the culture of extra virgin olive oil
• highlighting new technologies
• ensuring in-depth coverage of important scientific issues
• guiding catering and food service trade members in product tasting and analysis
Also to be remembered, the business meetings between exhibiting firms and foreign buyers, organized by Rimini Fiera. Awards for the prestigious Oro Giallo best Extra Virgin Olive Oil Contest are assigned during the show
Website Oro Giallo

The Seattle Wine and Food Experience is a premier showcase for wine and food in the Northwest. Come and experience this world tour of wine, beer and all things culinary
Featuring
• Wines from around the world
• Featured Wine Region: Oregon
• Washington wines, of course
• Local and national beer/cider exhibit
• Sip Northwest Distillery Row
• 6-7-8 Audi Lounge + oyster bar & bubbles
• 20 chefs preparing gourmet bites
• Stella Artois VIKING chef demo stage with Chef Thierry Rautureau
• Artisan foods for sample and sale
• Fonté Coffee Lounge
• + Live music
Website Seattle Wine and Food Experience

The Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival grew from humble roots as a fund-raising initiative of then Playhouse board member John E. Levine. Today the festival attracts some of the biggest industry names from around the world and is firmly established as the continent's premier wine event and among the biggest, best and oldest wine events in the world. It features wine tastings and pairings, gourmet dinners and luncheons, educational seminars and culinary competitions.
This is a rare opportunity to meet owners, winemakers and senior representatives from wineries around the globe. For either the experienced wine lover or the novice, the festival has something to please every palate and pocketbook.
Website Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival

Congress of Italian cookery author. Identita' Golose will concentrate on primary products, going "Beyond the Market" with the object of surpassing, while continuing on the same route, the pillar of our last two congresses, namely the "Luxury of Simplicity" which is now a watchword in signature cuisine and confectionery not only in Italy. It will do so by heightening the "simplicity" of content and form that accompanies the world since the economic crisis opened the eyes to many, revealing a change of course that was in fact already under way.
The congress will go "Beyond the Market" because the greatest cuisine and the best confectionery should no longer limit themselves to order the best primary products, this should be given for granted, needless to say, but they must go directly to the source, to their production and look for the best. It is on this that they should intervene to shape this or that preparation. It's a matter of grasping the essence, the soul of a product, in a search for taste that is concrete and free of cunning. One should order having quality in mind, and not saving; cuisine should be intelligent, concrete and sincere, it should prefer direct taste and, with it, the shades that a skilled chef can add. This is why some of the lessons will be given by two lecturers at the same time, two or three ingredients interpreted according to their savory and sweet side, after contemporary cuisine has seen the borders between restaurants and confectioneries fall down. There will also be a focus on the best twenty year old chefs, the champions of the future, and days dedicated to Brazil and to pasta, to meat, to pizza and to confectionery.
Website Identita' Golose

More than 150 real ales from all over Britain will be on during the festival as well as ciders & perries and a good selection of foreign beers. Hot & cold food and snacks will be available too.
Website Battersea Beer Festival

Making its 11th edition ,IEM of Verona, Italy, and IEEM of Miami, present the best Italian wine seminars and trade tasting of the year. Producers from various regions, including groups of wineries from Tuscany, Piedmont, Sicily, Marche, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Lombardy will showcase their finest vintages from those in the trade. Guided tastings of select wines will enhance the event and provide visitors with an unforgettable and unique wine experience
Info Simply Italian Great Wines

The first professional trade show dedicated to the snacking industry. In 2012, the Ham & Butter index, a revealing element of the fast-food market, spotlights food caterers
Website Sandwich and Snack Show

A weekend of fine wine, delicious chocolates, shopping, food and friends.
Website Enumclaw Wine & Chocolate Festival

Nutella fans around the world will once again celebrate their love for the chocolate-hazelnut spread for the 5th annual World Nutella Day. Through World Nutella Day, adults around the world are encouraged to experience a second childhood by discovering Nutella for the first time. From homemade recipes to haikus, from picture collages to odes to Nutella, fans are speaking out about their love and showing it online.
Website World Nutella Day

6th International Fair for professional of the sector of Gastronomy, Beverage, Coffee, Patisserie, Catering , Hospitality
Website GAST Expo

Largest annual specialized exhibition in Russia and Eastern Europe. Promoting high-quality foodstuffs to the domestic market, the PRODEXPO trade show contributes to implementing high-priority federal projects aimed at improving the quality of life of the Russian citizens.
Website ProdExpo

The Leading Trade Fair for the International Fresh Produce Trade. More than 2,400 companies from across the entire fresh produce value chain will be present in a single location - including global players as well as small and medium-sized suppliers from all around the world.
Website Fruit Logistica

Delray Beach Garlic Fest celebrates the most widely used and loved food in the world.
Three days of cooking demonstrations and competitions. Professional chefs from Florida to California compete in the Garlic Chef Competition. All the courses must, of course, contain garlic.
Website Delray Beach Garlic Fest

The Chocolate Lovers Festival features activities everyone can enjoy. Among the events planned each year are the Taste of Chocolate, featuring chocolate vendors selling their wares; the Chocolate Challenge, an arts extravaganza where the medium is chocolate; the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast featuring chocolate chip pancakes; historic re-enactments; children's activities; open houses at historic buildings; and much more. Some events require a fee, and other events are free to all visitors
Website Chocolate Lovers Festival

Taste over 300 artisan wines from Virginia in one fabulous, convenient spot - all the best Virginia winemakers will be there showing off their new releases
Learn from the pros - this event features a full slate of culinary seminars led by the regions best chefs and sommeliers. Unlike other events, all seminars and unlimited wine tastings at the Virginia Wine Showcase are included in your ticket fee.
Relax - it all happens inside the exquisite Crystal Gateway Marriott ... we have bought the entire hotel and will be turning it into a ginormous grand tasting room for the weekend.
Stay - make a weekend of it ... we have brought room rates down to 1/2 price for this event.
Website Virginia Wine Showcase

Preparations are well underway for the 7th World's Original Marmalade Awards to be held at Dalemain Mansion on 25th & 26th February 2012. The jars are being sterilised and the oranges sliced for what is set to be the best Festival yet. Paddington Bear is once again sponsoring the Family Affair category which is all about families, groups of friends and children getting together to make marmalade!
The Festival will include workshops from famous foodies Ivan Day and Dan Lepard. There will also be a Marmalade Concert, a Marmalade Church Service and an array of activities with a citrus twist. Past Artisan winner Perthshire Preserves said they ‘would suggest Dalemain Mansion 2012 is a fun day out for all Marmalade lovers including Paddington!'
The International Category of the Awards looks set to be an exciting competition as we already have our first entry from South Africa! We accept smaller jars from abroad and you can donate to your local hospice if you would prefer.
There are also two new categories this year, Heritage Marmalade and Novice Marmalade.
Website The World's Original Marmalade Awards & Festival

The world's largest organic trade fair. The Nürnberg exhibition centre becomes the world's biggest platform for the organic sector. 2,500 exhibitors and 44,000 trade visitors are expected again at BioFach, the World Organic Trade Fair. Besides the customary variety and quality of the product spectrum and numerous highlights, the event focuses mainly on the organic abundance of one raw material market
Website BioFach

As an attendees you can visit more than 150 exhibition booths, watch the Latte Art Championship, network with peers and new friends at a number of social events, take a class from more than 75 options, see all the newest products and ultimately return home with the tools and connections to build your business.
Info Coffee Fest New York

Brighter yellow, shapelier, richer in essential oils, acid and flavourMenton's lemons are prized and sought after for their unique taste and smell. They are currently in the process of getting Protected geographical indication that will authenticate their quality. Menton's lemons Festival... nature, culture and tradition all in one.
Website Lemon Festival in Menton

The event will offer two days of programming including classes/lectures/demos from well-known industry pros and pioneers. Chocolates and sweet treats will offer a wonderful compliment to the spectacular collection of coffees and teas.
Website Coffee & Tea Festival NYC

It's the only pizza show in the Midwest and the largest frozen dessert show in the country. An education-centered tradeshow that lets real experts deliver real solutions to real problems
Website NAPICS North American Pizza & Ice Cream Show

The New York Wine Expo is a three-day exposition catering to both the general public and the trade in the nation's hub. Don't miss this opportunity to sample over 760 wines from over 190 winemakers from around the globe in the Grand Tasting.
Website New York Wine Expo

Escape the cold and sample wines from the Heart of Iowa Wine Trail Wineries.
We invite you to take a day or weekend trip to one or more of our wine trail wineries. We're certain you'll be delighted by your discoveries, and we promise you'll meet some very friendly folks eager to serve you with quality wines, unique gift items and entertaining events.
Info Tropical Wine Festival

Enjoy a heavenly variety of wines, local restaurants samples, live entertainment and huge silent auction deals all in one evening to support science education
Info Bacchus Wine and Food Festival

Featuring vendors from around the state and beyond, the festival provides lovers of mankind's best-loved desserts - chocolate. From chocolate cakes and tortes to chocolate bars and ice cream, the event offers more than a sampling of everything chocolate. Organizers are putting the finishing touches on other activities that will please everyone this year from cooking demonstrations, to dinners and spa treatments. "The whole family can participate in one or more of the activities we have to offer." says Porter Wilson, President of the Carolina Chocolate Festival. The Chocolate Festival was created by the late John Green, who envisioned non-profit groups working together, hand-in-hand, to organize an event as partners, and in turn reap the benefits.
All the proceeds from the 2012 Carolina Chocolate Festival will be donated to the Carteret County Domestic Violence, Broad Street Clinic, Second Blessings Outreach, Carteret General Hospital Volunteers, Carteret County 4-H, White Oak Youth, Potters for Parkinson, Beaufort Womens Club and Carteret Community College Basic Law Enforcement Training. This is the ninth Annual Carolina Chocolate Festival at the Crystal Coast Civic Center.
Website Carolina Chocolate Festival

This international beer tasting extravaganza will showcase more than 50 breweries from across the globe, each providing samples of their country's proudest brewing achievement.
Shoulder to shoulder with some of America's best breweries, will be amazing breweries from Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Austria, Nicaragua, Thailand, Poland, New Zealand, Indonesia, Sweden, China, and others.
Website International Great Beer Expo

Take one large venue. Add a generous helping of food connoisseurs and wine experts. Season well with tasting seminars, cooking demonstrations, divine sampling opportunities and informative exhibits. Mix with good friends, family or coworkers, and you have a recipe for a memorable night.
The London Wine & Food Show, now in its seventh year, is a "must do" event for anyone who likes wine, fine foods or just a good time out with friends. This year, we're introducing a NEW Corporate night on Thursday, January 12th, and are bringing back the popular "Ladies Night Out" on Friday, January 13th. Saturday is open all day, providing you the option to take the time to wander, nibble and socialize.
Website The London Wine & Food Show 2012

As North America's premier truffle event, the Festival will showcase the venerated black truffle-specifically, the winter Périgord truffle (Tuber melanosporum), which will be discussed, examined, probed, demonstrated, prepared, and finally feasted upon for breakfast, lunch and dinner
The second annual Napa Truffle Festival, featuring a unique gathering of leading truffle cultivation experts and scientists, special guests from the food and wine world, and internationally-renowned Michelin Star Chefs - with keynote address by distinguished travel/food writer and former editor of Bon Appétit, Barbara Fairchild.
Programs and activities throughout the weekend will include culinary/cooking classes, lunch in local wineries, truffle orchard tours, a lively Festival Marketplace showcasing local artisanal vendors, and a grand multi-course Truffles & Wine Dinner at La Toque-each course prepared by a Michelin Star Chef (see last year's seven-course Truffle Dinner menu). There will also be truffle cultivation programs with top truffle scientists based on the latest and most rigorous scientific methodology and research principles. Truffle dogs will also be on hand to sniff things out-hunting, training and petting allowed.
Website Napa Truffle Festival

The Tunarama Festival began in 1962 and is primarily aimed at the family market, with free entertainment, competitions and contests being organised for all age groups. Traditionally the Tunarama Festival has been held over the Australia Day long weekend with the original idea to help promote the tuna Industry which was just emerging in Port Lincoln.
This date also coincided with the fishing fleet putting to sea. Nowadays, with increased technology and the advent of the aquaculture industry, (which has seen the end of the tuna poling method) the tuna fishing operations in Port Lincoln have changed, but the Festival has remained and is in its 50th year.
Website Tunarama Festival

The seeds for the Lakeland Pig Festival were first planted in 1994 when a small group of local businessmen, vacationing in North Carolina, attended a Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) sanctioned barbeque championship in Tryon, North Carolina. As interest grew in the community, then Governor Lawton Chiles signed a request for the formal sanctioning of the Lakeland Pig Festival as a Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) State Championship on On November 19,1996. Finally, a date was set to bring a barbeque championship to Lakeland, and on March 21, 1997 the Lakeland Pig Festival was born.
In the beginning, the goals of the Lakeland Pig Festival were pretty simple:
â–ª Raise money for local charitable organizations;
â–ª Create an relaxing event for all walks of life;
â–ª Eat some world-class barbeque!
As with any new contest, there were several years of trial and error trying to find the perfect "recipe" for success. During these early years, the contest was held in March or April; however, in 2000 a decision was made to move the contest to late-January. Each successive year has brought more contestants and greater attendance. But nothing was possible without the dedication of community volunteers.
In 2004, a Kids-Q Contest was added, and immediately became a permanent part of the event.
In 2008, Pigfest was expanded to include Friday evening activities. With the addition of live music and entertainment, fun food competition, and BBQ vending, the event continued to be a great success. To date, the Lakeland Pig Festival has contributed nearly $500,000 to local charities and is recognized nationally as one of the best Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) BBQ events in the country.
The mission of the Lakeland Pig Festival, Inc. is to continue to promote and improve the event as it has siWnce it's beginning, so that it is enjoyed by the participants and our community and serves the charitable organizations of the greater Lakeland area and we are proud to report that this mission continues to be met
Website Lakeland Pig Festival

Created to celebrate the magnificent Oregon truffles as they reach the peak of ripeness in their native soil, the Oregon Truffle Festival is the first festival of its kind in North America, dedicated to sharing the experience of the chefs, foragers and fans of Oregon's wild truffles, from their hidden source in the forest to their glory on the table.
Website The Annual Oregon Truffle Festival

The 2012 BC Foodservice Expo, Western Canada's largest hospitality trade show, is held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in downtown Vancouver.
Whether you're an owner/operator, chef, manager, buyer or other decisionmaker who needs to stay on top of new trends and products, this show is for you. See and sample new and innovative food and beverage products. Touch and test the latest equipment and hospitality services. Network with your industry colleagues.
Website BC Foodservice Expo

As the only trade fair of its kind worldwide, ProSweets Cologne focuses on the entire supply spectrum of the confectionery and savoury snacks industry. Whether it is an innovative ingredient, an optimised production process or a clever packaging method - the future will be shaped collectively in Cologne. Visitors to ProSweets Cologne can get a taste today of the confectionery and savoury snacks industry of tomorrow and collectively set the trends that will define the industry.
Website ProSweets Cologne

The largest Wine & Food show in Connecticut. Sun Winefest offers over 1000 wines and beer to sample as well as signature dishes from some of the region's most beloved restaurants, celebrity chefs,
Website The Sun WineFest

It's a great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'.
Website Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival New York

Each year's Loire Valley Wine Trade Fair is a major event on the international wine calendar. The fair plays a key role in the economics of the industry, and the emphasis is always on the outlook for the future.
Website Salon des Vins de Loire

Ranked among the top 10 arts and entertainment events for wealthy Americans. Since 2004, the festival has earned the distinction of being the most successful charity wine auction in the nation according to Wine Spectator. The event brings many of the world's finest vintners and chefs together with wine collectors and philanthropists for a three-day gala
Website Naples Winter Wine Festival

One sector, one event - and thousands of ideas, contacts and business deals. ISM, the world´s leading trade fair for the confectionery industry, offers the right platform for the highly innovative world of confectionery - and for all the trends and themes that interest the various business partners and shape the future, for all familiar and new products that reach people and markets and generate new turnover.
Website ISM - International Sweets & Biscuits Fair

The event that brings the potato supply chain together to be educated and energized. Featuring internationally recognized inspirational and motivational speakers Offering educational programming on the latest issues facing the industry Facilitating networking opportunities with colleagues, opinion leaders and buyers Showcasing the latest products and services for the industry
Website Potato Expo

Join us for the 12th Annual Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival Weekend! Come up to Vail to experience the event that beer connoisseurs are raving about. Homebrewers, Professional Brewers and Industry Gurus alike speak highly with regard to the unique format, the unusual international collection of beers, the organization and the overall quality of the event.
For those of you who are Big Beers Festival veterans, this 12th Anniversary celebration promises to live up to your previous experiences and take it one step further. Look forward to more goodies from Chef Votaw at the Vail Cascade Resort & Spa, calibrate with Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Avery Brewing Co., enjoy special features by Bell's Brewing Co. & Breckenridge Brewery, and sample over 200 amazing creations by breweries from around the globe.
Info Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival

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International Horti Expo 2012 will provide the platform to the entire horticulture and food sector, right from producers to retailers, to come together and transact most important business, i.e direct business. The theme of the expo is 'Projecting India's Farm Power Combining Food Quality & Safety'.
Website Horti Expo

Packed with dozens of practical workshops, a large trade show, organic meals, and lots of opportunities to meet other organic farmers.
Info Minnesota Organic Conference and Trade Show

For three weeks in January the Niagara Region is transformed into a wintry wonderland, celebrating one of Canada's most cherished products, Ontario Icewine. From Gala evening toasts to chestnut roasts, ornate ice bars and winery tours, the 17th annual Niagara Icewine Festival offers plenty for every taste.
Website Niagara Icewine Festival

The UK's largest celebration of all that makes France such a special place.
You can expect top-notch tutored wine tastings, inspirational cookery demonstrations, a lively French market and live music to indulge your love of France. Get information on buying property, learning the language, holiday ideas and hear about real life experiences of relocation in our enlightening talks. Those interested in making the move to France will love browsing through the thousands of properties for all budgets in the UK's largest French property exhibition.
Website The France Show

Central Florida's only Celebration of Everything Chocolate. An incredible Vendor Showcase with tastes and treats from the region's best Chocolatiers and Confection Companies; Demonstrations by World Class Pastry Chefs; Live Competitions by Pastry Professionals; Chocolate and Wine Pairings; A one-of-a-kind Chocolate Themed Museum; a Chocolate Game Show Stage; The Math and Science of Chocolate; Kids-4-Chocolate Workshop; Crazy Chocolate Contests for children and adults; Interactive Chocolate Classes and much more
Info The Festival of Chocolate

Central Florida's only Celebration of Everything Chocolate. An incredible Vendor Showcase with tastes and treats from the region's best Chocolatiers and Confection Companies; Demonstrations by World Class Pastry Chefs; Live Competitions by Pastry Professionals; Chocolate and Wine Pairings; A one-of-a-kind Chocolate Themed Museum; a Chocolate Game Show Stage; The Math and Science of Chocolate; Kids-4-Chocolate Workshop; Crazy Chocolate Contests for children and adults; Interactive Chocolate Classes and much more
Info The Festival of Chocolate

The American Fine Wine Competition is one of the world's largest and most prestigious competitions devoted solely to fine wines produced in the United States. The AFWC Gala is "The Wine Event of the Year". Taste over 600 of the finest wines made in the United States while enjoying world class food, entertainment, auctions, and ambience.
The AFWC Gala begins with its signature "Sparkling Reception", featuring the sparkling and white wines from the competition, the silent auction featuring all of the wines from the competition signed by the winemakers, and exciting live entertainment.
Website American Fine Wine Competition & Gala Dinner

North America's largest specialty food and beverage marketplace.
The Winter Fancy Food Show has the hottest food trends, newest products and best networking opportunities in the specialty food trade. Each year the 17,000+ Winter Fancy Food Show attendees discover more than 80,000 products featuring the world's finest foods and beverages from more than 1,300 exhibitors representing 35+ countries.
Info Winter Fancy Food Show

So Fresh - Conference and Exhibition devoted to Fresh Foods is the exhibition for Italian producers in the variable weight food sector (fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, fresh-cut and ready-to-eat food) to promote the excellence of Made in Italy fresh foods.
Info So Fresh

In 2012, Marca by Bologna Fiere will once again present initiatives devoted to fresh food, especially Marca Fresh Lab, focused on a category of primary importance: fresh products.
Marca Fresh Lab 2012 will pay special attention to fresh "convenience" fruits and vegetables, i.e., to all preparations with high added value and high service content for consumers. It will offer an in-depth study by comparing top European cases with Italian experiences with regard to product/service innovation as well as optimisation of management processes, from logistics to lay-out to merchandising. In other words, it will show how the value chain of fresh, private label fruit and vegetable products is formed on modern European markets, and will achieve this by means of highly specialised conferences reserved to industry professionals, with presentations of international case studies and the help of leading experts.
Website Marca

Pork Congress is Minnesota's only swine specific tradeshow and pork producer educational event.Sponsored by the Minnesota Pork Producers Association, the Pork Congress tradeshow, seminars and social activities are designed exclusively for pork producers and pork industry stakehoolders.
Website Minnesota Pork Congress

The annual Winter Okanagan Wine Festival is a unique marriage of culinary events, wine tastings, educational seminars, and outdoor recreation showcasing the famous wine varietals of BC's Okanagan Wine Country. Spectacular wines and an award winning alpine resort create an unbelievable weekend of education and recreation. From wine masters dinners, to educational seminars and a unique progressive tasting, this is a memorable weekend in the making. Whether you consider yourself a ‘wine rookie' or a ‘sommelier in disguise,' this festival has daily events to entice every palette
Info Winter Okanagan Wine Festival

The new Boston Wine Expo has been transformed into an entire week of festivities celebrating wine, food and culture from the greatest wine-producing regions of the world
New This Year:
- Nightly Vintner Dinners
- Three Days of Seminars -- Now Beginning on Friday
- NECN TV Diner Platinum Plate Gala on Friday Evening
- Chef's Grand Dinner on Saturday Evening
- Barrel Sampling Room for the Trade on Saturday and Sunday
- Entertainment Stage in the center of the Grand Tasting celebrating the cultures of the many countries represented at the Grand Tasting
Website Boston Wine Expo

At its 33rd edition, the expo is acknowledged as the world´s most important in the artisan gelato sector, a primary European showcase for artisan Italian confectionery and is also strengthening its position in the artisan bakery field.
On show, all the very latest in raw materials, basic products, plant, machinery, furnishing and fittings for the artisan gelato and bakery trades.
Thematic sections, international contests and championships, demos, courses and updating seminars and expos all contribute to making it a unique spectacular event.
Website SIGEP

Farmhouse Breakfast Week is an annual campaign run by HGCA which has been running since the year 2000. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast and demonstrate the variety of breakfast foods available in the UK. The theme for the campaign is "Shake Up Your Wake Up" - make small changes to your morning routine to make sure you have time for breakfast every day
All stages of the food chain, from farmers to food producers and retailers to consumers are being encouraged to hold events to promote the importance of starting the day with breakfast and to celebrate the wealth of wonderful breakfast produce available around the country.
Website Farmhouse Breakfast Week

Food & Drink Expo is the largest food and drink trade exhibition in the UK for 2012 - bringing together the grocery, foodservice, wholesale, manufacturing and speciality retail markets.The event has been running for over 20 years and attracts exhibitors and visitors from across the UK and internationally, and is perfectly placed in Birmingham's NEC to offer 3 days in an environment specifically designed to help with the development of your business.
Food & Drink Expo 2012 is of further benefit due to its co-location with a number of other leading trade events - Foodex, National Convenience Show and the Forecourt & Fuel Equipment Show - offering a rounded experience of the food and drink supply chain and opportunities to source new products and business ideas in just 3 days.
Website Food & Drink Expo

Three days devoted to both work and enjoyment dealing with dynamic restaurant management, new culinary professions, designer plates, recipe reengineering, creativity, trends, techniques and cuisine fusión. Enjoy the challenge of change at madridfusión 2012 with the new generation of talented young chefs.
Website Madrid Fusion

Created to celebrate the magnificent Oregon truffles as they reach the peak of ripeness in their native soil, it is the first festival of its kind in North America, dedicated to sharing the experience of the chefs, foragers and fans of Oregon's wild truffles, from their hidden source in the forest to their glory on the table.
Website Oregon Truffle Festival

The Winter Brew Fest celebrates craft beverages from around Colorado and other U.S. craft brews and feature; live music, food, and other vendors.
Website Winter Brew Fest

Identità Golose, a culinary organization whose mission is to highlight the best of contemporary Italian cuisine, will host its second annual Identità New York at Eataly. The two-day congress devoted to Italian gastronomy will showcase Italy's top chefs, winemakers and artisan producers.
Identità New York will feature two days of cooking demonstrations with 12 top chefs, wine classes from prestigious Italian winemakers as well as tasting events with leading food producers of Italy.
This year's congress will follow a new format; a stellar line up of Italy's most acclaimed chefs including Massimo Bottura, Moreno Cedroni, Carlo Cracco, Gennaro Esposito, Davide Scabin, and Emanuele Scarello, will be paired with six of New
York City's top chefs including Mario Batali, Jonathan Benno, Wylie Dufresne, Mark Ladner, Missy Robbins and Michael White to discuss contemporary trends in Italian gastronomy and prepare signature dishes for the attendees to sample.
The two days of exceptional show cooking will culminate in a six-course dinner prepared by all 12 chefs and hosted by chef, author, restaurateur, and TV personality Lidia Bastianich at Eataly's Birreria on November 1st.
In addition to the cooking demonstrations, there will be hour-long wine classes at La Scuola di Eataly led by some of the most renowned wineries in Italy including: Allegrini, Antinori, Bastianich, Ferrari, Frescobaldi, Lungarotti, and Mirafiore as well
as tastings of gastronomic specialties and products from regions across Italy.
Tickets for each cooking demonstration are $125.00 per person and will take place at Eataly's Birrera. Tickets for each wine class are $50.00 per person and will take place at La Scuola di Eataly. Tickets for the six-course dinner prepared on November 1st at Eataly's Birreria are $225.00 per person. All tickets include tax and gratuity.
For more information or to purchase tickets please call 212-539-0204, Ext. 304 (Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm) or visit http://eatalyny.com/

The one-day only event will be devoted to Italian gastronomy, delivering the latest news and showcasing a selection of Italian artisan producers. Identità London 2011 will highlight the best of contemporary Italian cuisine by demonstrating and sharing the work of six of Italy's finest chefs to the UK audience - culminating with an evening Gala Dinner open to the public created by the starring chefs
Website Identità London

The world's leading food ingredients axhibition attracting over 23.000 attendees from over 100 countries.
Website Food Ingredients Europe & Natural Ingredients

Each year, the area's premier restaurants and confectioners showcase bite-size samples of their special chocolate desserts and candies for visitors at the Largo Cultural Center . The 16th Annual Death by Chocolate fundraiser is put on by the Rotary Club of Largo to support local youth and empowerment initiatives.
Website Death by Chocolate

The only specialized event in India for Sweet, Snack and Confectionery processing industry. his event covers all aspects of Sweet, Snack and Confectionery industry like - processing technologies, packaging solutions, ingredients, distribution, refrigeration, quality management
Website Sweet and SnackTec India

The program will cover the U.S. rice situation and outlook, including farm policy and market outlooks, state production outlooks, and state and national research reports.
The annual rice outlook conference is an educational service of the USA Rice Federation for farmers from all rice-producing states and allied segments of the U.S. rice industry. It includes a trade show for rice-related equipment, technology, products and services.
Website USA Rice Outlook Conference

For seven days and nights, Hobart's waterfront will again be transformed into a display of colour and life as the Taste Festival ignites the historic Sullivans Cove precinct: showcasing the uniqueness and diversity of Tasmania's produce and gourmet food and wine to approximately 250,000 people
Website The Taste Festival

An established and highly successful event in the agricultural calendar providing an excellent vehicle for exhibitors to market their products and services. The Fair is open for one day and is primarily dairy orientated, featuring Showing Classes for four breeds of cattle with accommodation for 200 cattle and 2900 sq.m. of trade stand space
Website The Royal Ulster Winter Fair

The winter season holds many gifts for beer lovers in the form of big, bold ales designed to fend off the cold chill of a long winter's night. Each year, the Holiday Ale Festival annually gathers up dozens of these winter warmers for a joyous five-day celebration. As a result, this quintessential Portland event has earned a reputation as the premier winter beer tasting venue on the West Coast.
More than 40 breweries will be featured at this year's event, all of which are created specifically to bring warmth and cheer to the holiday season. These aren't beers you'll find in the supermarket - our brewers have put together special recipes just for the Holiday Ale Festival. From Belgians and Barleywines to Porters and Stouts, these beers are rich, robust and full of complex flavors.
Website Holiday Ale Festival

Fine Food India is India's latest trade event for the retail, foodservice, bakery and hospitality industries.
Over three days a world class offering of both international and national exhibitors will display an exciting menu of food, beverages, hospitality equipment and supplies. India's importers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, hotels, restaurants and more, will convene to source new products and innovations, to keep their businesses at the forefront of the industry.
Website International Food & Drink Expo India

Celebrate the festive season in style this year with Taste of Christmas 2011 - where inspired entertaining gets a glamorous holiday makeover
A selection of the capital's top restaurants will be serving up seasonal menus full of dishes designed to inspire. Between bites, watch some of the country's best chefs take to the stage to help you finesse your light entertaining, refine that ambitious festive menu and prepare for the ultimate season of extravagance.
Browse for that ideal gift, essential ingredient or winter warmer Taste's boutique market, then settle down to a fine wine, cheese or chocolate tasting. And while you're feeling hands-on, join an interactive cookery class - it's sure to fire up your imagination and help hone that holiday feast.
Eat, drink and be merry in style this year and prepare for the ultimate season of extravagance.
Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall will be opening the show on Friday 2nd December and taking part in exciting demonstrations.
Not only will the chefs be sharing their gastronomic wisdom with guests at the event with separate cookery demonstrations, but they will also take to the stage together in a Taste of Christmas first for a unique welcome before the show officially opens
Website Taste of Christmas

The 5th Annual Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival is 5-day, star-studded, epicurean extravaganza hosted on the resort island playground of Palm Beach. Join James Beard Award-winning chefs, Food Network personalities, authors, winemakers, mixologists and a plethora of local talent in an unforgettable series of dinners and parties that will saturate your senses in the most anticipated culinary event of the season.
Website Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival

Exhibitors and visitors to BioFach India together with India Organic experience the Indian organic products market in all its facets. The premiere of the event one year ago brought together over 3,000 trade visitors.
Website BioFach India

PIÙGUSTO, the Swiss International Taste Exhibition, is one of the most important event for the wine-and-food sector of Switzerland.
More than 12.000 sqm are totally dedicated to the best gourmet productions, over 300 companies can present, directly sell and tell about the tradition of their food and wine producing to a wide public during 4 days.
Taking place only few weeks before Christmas time, PIÙGUSTO is one of the best showcases in order to present products to a wide audience, attracted by food and gastronomic specialties, ranging from the traditions of the classic Mediterranean cuisine to ethnic and local ones. Great attention is given to products with a designation of origin, which ensure the high standard guaranteed origin of each ingredient
Website PiùGusto

A great day of beer sippin', bourbon tastin', music listenin', cigar smokin', and barbeque eatin'. Some of the best barbeque vendors are on-site if you get hungry all while enjoying seminars in the tasting theater and live music all day. There are 40 Bourbons and 60 Beers on Tap. Enjoy the great barbeque selection - pulled pork from whole hogs, ribs, brisket, chickens, sausages and any fixin' you could imagine
Info Beer Bourbon and BBQ Festival Nashville

The day-long event will feature various healthy and sustainable foods, cooking demonstrations, live music, informed speakers and movie screenings. The best of the best organic, green, animal-friendly and wellness businesses along with various non-profits will come together to celebrate this planet and all it has to offer.
Website Northeast Florida Veg Fest

Staged in the heart of the Geographe Region at Bicentennial Square in Bunbury, the Festival showcases the fantastic growing region from Harvey in the north to Busselton in the south and encompasses the local districts of Capel, Dardanup, Donnybrook and Collie.
Geographe Wine is the central attraction with over 40 brands available from this emerging quality wine growing region, right on the doorstep of the Forrest Highway. This year, individual entry will be $22 with accompanied children under the age of 18 free. Entry will include souvenir glass and access to tastings, entertainment, wine seminars, cooking and kid's activities. Glasses of wine will also be able to be purchased for consumption on site.
Meals will be available for purchase. Take home sales of food and wine is also available. Don Hancey will head up the main cooking shows and present menus from the regions best chefs from Mantra Bunbury Hotel, Lighthouse Resort and Vat 2.
Ongoing cooking demonstrations will show off some fantastic regional dishes using local produce
Website Geographe Crush Food and Wine Festival

Kosherfest is the world's largest kosher-certified products trade event serving the retail and foodservice industries. This is where you will come face-to-face with the products and people that will help you succeed in today's kosher marketplace
Website Kosherfest

Cornucopia is Whistler's premier wine and food extravaganza
The annual event features a sumptuous variety of hands-on seminars, fascinating winemaker dinners, gala tasting events and sizzling after-parties. Cornucopia offers something for both the experience gourmet and those seeking to better appreciate the epicurean delights of wine and food
Website Cornucopia

The event, featuring Art Smith, will be held at Hy-Vee Hall in the Iowa Events Center, will be a dream world of food, wine, beer and spirits for all connoisseurs. The event will be divided up into sections consisting of The Emporium, where more than 100 exhibitors will display and sell their goods, wine, specialty beers and spirits. Celebrity Kitchen Theatre presented by EuropeanMotorcars, featuring the talents of nationwide and world renowned chefs, The Local Stage, featuring daily demonstrations from local and regional chefs, and our Naked GrapeMeet n Greet Zone
Website Iowa's Premier Wine and Food Expo

For more than 20 years, Forum Vini has been an excellent market place for
• wines, sparkling wines and spirits
• regional and country-typical specialities
• delicacies and delicatessen
• accessories and cellar equipment
• wine magazines and books
• services from the catering, travelling and online sectors
For the first time this year: While the wine-loving visitors will find everything their hearts desire in hall 3 of the M,O,C, Event Center, gourmets can also consider a visit to the nearby Zenith. There, the gourmet show eat&STYLE will take place at the same time
Website Forum Vini

This international beer tasting extravaganza will showcase more than 50 breweries from across the globe, each providing samples of their country's proudest brewing achievement.
Shoulder to shoulder with some of America's best breweries, including local Long Island favorites, will be amazing breweries from Japan, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Austria, Nicaragua, Thailand, Poland, New Zealand, Indonesia, Sweden, China, and others
Website International Great Beer Expo

This festival is dedicated to celebrating the authentic spirit of one of New Orleans' most delicious and famous sandwiches. Taste po-boys from restaurants such as G.W. Fins, Bourbon House, Emeril's Delmonico and many more. The festival also includes panel discussions on topics like po-boy history and French bread-baking traditions, three stages with live music, arts and crafts, and a children's section with games and prizes
Website Po-Boy Preservation Festival

Join us for a delicious afternoon of food, fun and festivities while some of the finest chefs compete with their unique recipe and favourite risotto dish. Houston's finest chef's against a backdrop of Italian wine, food and fashion to raise funds for an important local community non profit
Website Risotto Festival

The Clayoquot Oyster Festival is a memorable celebration of one of the ocean's most coveted culinary delights, the oyster. As a region Clayoquot Sound is a great cultivator and consumer of this special bivalve, annually grow ing over 50,000 gallons of oysters a year and over the festival weekend slurping back over 8,000.
This year will be the 15th year for the much anticipated Clayoquot Oyster Festival so many toasts will be made with oysters in hand during oyster farm tours, oyster and wine tastings, educational seminars, the Mermaid's Ball on Friday November 18th, and of course the ever popular and decadent Oyster Gala on Saturday November 19th. Costumes, slurping contests, abundant oyster eating and lots of great music are what make this festival so special for those that live here and the welcomed visitors
Website Clayoquot Oyster Festival

The Festival of Chocolate is the Largest All-Chocolate Event in the Southeastern United States featuring an incredible Vendor Showcase with tastes and treats from the region's best Chocolatiers and Confection Companies; Demonstrations by World Class Pastry Chefs; Live Competitions by Pastry Professionals; Chocolate and Wine Pairings; A one-of-a-kind Chocolate Themed Museum; a Chocolate Game Show Stage; The Math and Science of Chocolate; Kids-4-Chocolate Workshop; Crazy Chocolate Contests for children and adults; Interactive Chocolate Classes and much more
Info Festival of Chocolate

Taste of Playa is a culinary event in Playa del Carmen that celebrates the creativity and cultural influences of chefs throughout the Riviera Maya. The event promotes the unique culinary perspectives of local chefs, highlights new event venues that attract a variety of participants and coordinates the efforts of local businesses and municipal governments
Website Taste of Playa

Montréal Passion Vin provides wine lovers with an unforgettable tasting experience replete with marvellous discoveries. Its main purpose is to support a worthy cause: the mission of the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (MRH)
Website Montréal Passion Vin

UpperCrust Show has established itself as a very unique food and wine trade fair where it successfully brings together the finest of national and international vintners and distillers, the biggest names in the food and cuisine industry, renowned chefs, leading restaurateurs, respected critics and celebrities known for their discerning tastebuds
Website UpperCrust Show Food and Wine Show

InterFood Novosibirsk features a wide range of food and drink products, targeted at the Siberian food market.
InterFood Novosibirsk has proved an effective forum for promoting new products, discovering more about the local market and meeting professionals within the industry, including producers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers and restaurateurs.
InterFood Novosibirsk hosts companies from Russia and abroad, offering products for the food and drink market, as well as food ingredients and food processing equipment and machinery
Website InterFood Novosibirsk

This three-day event will provide all the latest ideas, supplies, live competitions, demonstrations and workshops leaving you with the perfect recipe to create your very own masterpiece. 2011 has really seen the show go global with exhibitors from South Africa, Switzerland, Argentina, Ireland, South America, USA and Peru.
With over 100 exhibitors offering cutting-edge cake decorating supplies and products it's a must-visit for any cake craft and decorating fan
Info Cake International

The Wine Show is London's finest wine experience and will be jam-packed with the country's leading wine experts, the world's finest wine producers, unusual regions and varieties to discover all in all, a great day out. Master Chefs, global wine makers are gathering here to show their expertise and lead the attendees to choose their best wine for favourite occasions as well.
Website The Wine Show

This is one of the largest events of the UK. This will be showing so many different kind products related to emigration assistance, pharmacy, pesticides, agricultural mechanization, agriculture seeds, dairy farm, manure storage, stable, feed and supplements and business services. This is an international event so thousands of people will be coming from all over the world as they will get information about latest agricultural based products.

Website AgriScot

This year the festival soars to new heights with a move to an exciting new and massive venue, The Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum.
Denver's premier International Wine & Food Tasting showcases more than 400 International wines from 18 countries! Other beverages include selected spirits, Sake, a Belgium Beer Garden featuring food samplings created by Belgium Chef Daniel Joly of Mirabelle, Beaver Creek, paired with Stella Artois, Hoegaarden and Leffe beers, served in their custom glassware. Food samplings, produce and food products by Colorado Proud producers, Wisconsin Cheese, exhibits by luxury travel destinations, fine art and wine paraphernalia. Several food vendors offer food for sale.
Website Denver International Wine Festival

The Big Sur Food and Wine Festival is a giving organization that holds events to promote Big Sur as a culinary destination, supporting the overall health, character and vitality of the Big Sur community. Its intention is to stimulate the local economy and give a portion of event proceeds to support local nonprofits, arts and education programs, sustainability projects, and talented Big Sur residents who would greatly benefit themselves and the community through a wine and/or culinary scholarship.
This year, we extend our Hiking With Stemware^TM events to include a Magical Mystery Coast Tour, featuring a culinary and wine trip to amazing properties along the coast. We are also expanding the Rancho Rico Hiking With Stemware^TM event to include dinner and a very special exclusive event; past participants will receive first chances at this special Friday event
Dinner With Friends returns again to the fabulous Ventana Inn and Spa, with the Lifestyle Auction taking place under the Big Top at the Henry Miller Library.
Local resorts and restaurants will stage wonderful wine maker dinners and celebrations.
Website Big Sur Food and Wine Festival

The Merano WineFestival, which started in 1992 and is one of the most prestigious events in Italy and one of the most elegant in Europe as well as being an important benchmark in worldwide quality products
As every year, the most famous and most sought after producers from Italy and all over the world will be taking part in the event. The twentieth birthday will be properly celebrated with the chosen producers presenting their top products
Website Merano International WineFestival

The Ottawa Wine and Food Show is one of the longest running shows of its type in the country. A 5-day celebration of sampling the world's finest wines, foods and spirits and learning with renowned wine makers, chefs, brew masters and cheese makers from home and abroad. From learning how to taste and savour wine, to the best advice on what to serve at a special dinner party, to live kitchen demos, wine and food pairings and more taste and savour what you like, and learn all about it
Website Ottawa Wine & Food Show

Featuring barbecue competions, live entertainment and BBQ demonstrations.
All teams have water and electricity furnished and enjoys the benefits of enjoying a VIP Hospitality Suite that is outlandishly team, judge and volunteer friendly Representatives from the National Barbecue News, National BBQ Festival LLC, and the Exchange Club of Waycross make every possible effort to make this truly the Greatest BBQ Show on Earth. The Exchange Club of Waycross is one of the leading clubs in Georgia and known for its support of children's charities and has made this event one of their major fundraising projects.
Website National Barbecue Festival

The Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival returns for its 10th year in Edmonton. Indulge at the 2011 Festival as you sample an impressive selection of premium wines, spirits, and import and micro-brewed beer as well as cuisine from a diverse group of Edmonton's top restaurants and hotels. Guests can enjoy a mouthwatering array of beverage samples and Edmonton's top eats within a fun, relaxed, and social atmosphere
Website Edmonton Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival

Antique farm implements provide a challenge to those competing in Saturday's egg cracking contest. The fun continues on Sunday with addition of the antique cars on display, along with more music guaranteed to get you dancing. Grab your seat early for the procession of chefs, eggs and bread to the Giant 12 foot skillet where fun and follie are the order of day for those preparing the "5000 Egg" Giant Omelette.
Website Giant Omelette Celebration

CWE features gourmet chocolates, baked goods, specialty foods, cheeses, gelato, wines and much more. Whether you're looking for bon bons or baklava a fondue platter or fabulous chocolate gifts you'll find it at Chocolate World Expo
Website Chocolate World Expo

Special holiday edition of CWE features gourmet chocolates, baked goods, specialty foods, cheeses, gelato, wines and much more. Whether you're looking for bon bons or baklava a fondue platter or fabulous chocolate gifts you'll find it at Chocolate World Expo
Website Chocolate World Expo

The largest and longest running trade fair in China for imported food, wine, beverages and hospitality equipment:
• 15 years track record of success in Shanghai for exhibiting companies.
• Proven customer attendance of + 20,000 buyers from across China.
• A trade show focused on buyers of quality imported products and not Chinese made food and beverages.
• 1,017 exhibiting companies from 79 countries and regions, 23 Official National Pavilions attended FHC 2010.
• Including specialist sections and events for Wine & Spirits, Tea & Coffee and Meat.
Website FHC China

The Capital Food Fight brings the food industry's best talent together to support DC Central Kitchen's unique brand of community empowerment. Dozens of hot restaurants serve signature dishes to guests while top chefs battle on-stage. Food critics and national celebrities are on hand to mingle with the crowd and add to the excitement.
Website Capital Food Fight

After 5 editions, the Cheese of the Year is now considered the most important international championship for quality cheeses. In the past years, it hosted excellences from Spain, France, Greece, Swiss, Germany, the Neatherlands, Mexico and many other countries. This is the main stage to present your productions to the thousands of gourmet, buyers of the large-scale retail trade, and restaurant managers that every year come in Cremona
Info Cheese Of The Year

"Il BonTà" is one of the best marketing tool for producers of Italian and foreingn food and wine specialties. The Show, at its 8th edition, is already considered one of the most important italian exhibitions of the field. The success key of this show is in its original formula because "Il BonTà" is the unique Italian event able to host professional operators and gourmets.
Info Il BonTà

India's largest Wine Tasting Festival. Enjoy the splendid view of the ocean, the harbour and the Gateway of India - 3 days, 5000+ attendees, 100+ wines, wine talk, grape stomping, cheese tasting, food & fun
Website Mumbai Wine Tasting Festival

A Northwest legendary food and wine Festival that presents, the best of Northwest Wines's, Spirits and beers in combination with highest quality cuisines from the areas well known and famous chefs and restaurants. New this year, a professional chefs Pate' in Portland contest.
Many wineries will be offering bottle and case discounts and free shipping. Guests will have the opportunity to find that great wine buy
Wesite Northwest Food and Wine Festival

Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show comes back in Washington, DC for the sixth year. Giada De Laurentiis, Paula Deen & Guy Fieri will feature in the Celebrity Theater. Regional chefs will fill the cooking stage and will bring you the best for the crowd pleasing tasting and entertaining workshops.
Back by popular demand are the VIP Meet, Greet & Front Row Seat tickets and the multi-celebrity tickets. New tickets this year include the Pamper Me Paula, Giada Galore and Guy on Fire package specials.
Website Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show

The Largest Wine and Food Festival in Southern California
When classic cuisine, legendary wine, spirits and craft beer, and culinary all-stars come together, you know it's time for the return of the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival. Join fellow epicureans and connoisseurs for the weeklong star-studded culinary classic.
Some things don't go out of style because they define it
Website San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival

An annual pre-holiday event Now in its fourth year, this festival has established itself as Michigan's premier event for the celebration and tasting of the finest foods, wines, beers and spirits. From the connoisseur who lives and breathes for the finer things in life to the novice looking for an introduction to the world of food and spirits, the International Wine, Beer & Food Festival will deliver a grand experience that is sure to please every palette.
Website Grand Rapids International Wine & Food Festival

A celebration of the region's wide array of locally produced rum and beer products.
The Caribbean Rum & Beer Festival is a 2-day extravaganza set in a tropical outdoor arena. It brings together a host of international rums and beers to satisfy the most discerning of tastes. Each booth will tempt patrons with a different product offering, with plenty of opportunities for sampling and purchasing.
Website Caribbean Rum and Beer Festival

National Curry Week was started in 1998 to promote the cuisine and to raise funds for charities concentrating on hunger, malnourishment and poverty. During the week, curry lovers can get out and visit their local curry houses, some of which will be staging special events and fun challenges.
Now in its 14th year, National Curry Week 2011 for the first time invites not only curry restaurants, caterers, pubs, canteens etc, all over Britain but also the curry loving public who wish to dine at home with a takeaway or a prepared meal. We invite both the dine in and dine out sectors to celebrate the cuisine and culture with special dinners, record-breaking attempts, raffles, auctions and, where possible, to contribute to the alleviation of poverty and suffering in South Asia and worldwide
Website National Curry Week

Food & Life is centred around the food trade. Top chefs and Michelin star chefs tell visitors a few of their culinary secrets and show how best to process good produce. Moreover, products will be demonstrated and experts will discuss topical issues regarding nutrition and sustainable means of production.
Website Food & Life

First launched in 2002, the West Coast Chocolate Festival is a unique and innovative collection of individual high calibre chocolate-themed adult and all-ages events
Reflecting emerging trends such as culinary tourism, experiential travel, small affordable indulgences and a rapidly increasing appreciation of the healthy benefits of good chocolate, festival events celebrate the magic of chocolate and appeal to the senses and the soul while attracting guests from surrounding cities, the BC Lower Mainland and beyond. With chocolate as a powerful draw, the festival leverages events to bring people of all ages and cultures together, to raise awareness about proper consumption and lesser-known positive benefits of the incredibly appealing food, and most importantly, to create valuable opportunities for youth mentorship in the local community
Website West Coast Chocolate Festival