Food Festivals

Europe’s food festival calendar is one of the most extraordinary in the world, rooted in agricultural traditions, regional culinary cultures, and a relationship between food and celebration that predates the modern festival concept by centuries. For American visitors, European food festivals offer genuine access to culinary traditions that cannot be approximated at home — ingredients,...

From world-class Creole food at the New Orleans Jazz Fest to barbecue championships in Kentucky and the biggest food fair in the Midwest, here are the best food festivals in the USA and what makes each one worth attending.