Summer's the season of edible festivals. Our perfect August would be spent eating our way from coast to coast at these food-filled events.
Anything and everything goes in Portland at the massive Bite of Oregon festival, where restaurants from all over the state prepare more than 100 dishes from local goods (Aug. 10-12).
No ocean? No problem. Newport, Ky. may be landlocked, but the town serves up 10,000 Maine lobsters (and a whole lot more) on the banks of the Ohio River (Aug. 9-12) at the Great Inland Seafood Festival.
When it's swampy-hot (as North Carolina tends to get in August), a fat slice of watermelon goes down easy. Head to Winterville for the 22nd Annual Watermelon Festival (Aug. 23-25).
The two-day Milford Oyster Festival (Aug. 17-18), now in its 33rd year, involves an oyster cookoff, live music galore, and more bivalves than you can shake a pearl at.
You've seen it on the Food Network: At Reno, Nev.’s 19th annual Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off (Aug. 29–Sep. 3), they take their 'cue very seriously indeed.
At the National Buffalo Wing Festival, a chicken wing eating contest heats up the foodstuff's hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. over Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1-2).
written on Tuesday Aug 7, 2007
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