A celebration of Southern food and fun with over three hundred recipes and information on seventy-five great events!
A food festival is a wonderfully American event that happens in small towns and large cities all over the South, celebrating everything from onions to peanuts, chocolate to chowder. This collection is both cookbook and travel guide, with delicious recipes and festival information on events from Virginia to Texas. Southern food and Southern parties—or rather Southern parties about Southern food—are the very best kind. Featured festivals include:Chicken and Egg Festival—Moulton, AlabamaWest Virginia Strawberry Festival—Buckhannon, West VirginiaBradley County Pink Tomato Festival—Warren, ArkansasShrimp and Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival, Jekyll Island, GeorgiaSuffolk Peanut Festival—Suffolk, VirginiaCornbread Festival—South Pittsburgh, TNHouston Hot Sauce Festival—Houston, Texas