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Great British Cheese Festival
Cardiff, Wales
Held in Cardiff Castle, this huge 2-day festival follows the British Cheese Awards dinner
with master classes, wine workshops, cheese-making demos, cheese tossing and cheese
skittles, and a marketplace with over 100 cheese makers and related food vendors.
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44/2920/872-087;
www.thecheeseweb.co.uk
Oktoberfest die München (Munich Oktoberfest)
Munich, Germany
Munich's Lord Mayor taps the first keg of the year, followed by 2 weeks of night-and-day
beer quaffing in over a dozen tents set up along Theresienwiese, accompanied by
parades, rides, and other festivities. First held in 1810.
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49/89/232-3900
or 49/89/500-77500; www.oktoberfest.de
OCTOBER
Circleville Pumpkin Show
Circleville, Ohio
Over a century old, this 4-day agricultural fair includes seven separate parades, food
booths and displays, cooking and crafts demonstrations, carnival rides, a giant pumpkin
weigh-in, pumpkin sculpting, pumpkin-pie eating, and a prettiest pumpkin pageant.
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740/474-7000;
www.pumpkinshow.com
World Beer Festival
Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina
Tents fill the Durham Bulls athletic park for a day, featuring beers from over 150 brewer-
ies worldwide, from Germany and Belgium to Lithuania and Sri Lanka, along with several
U.S. craft brewers. Food booths and live music keep things hopping.
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800/977-2337;
www.allaboutbeer.wbf
Fiera del Tartufo (Truffle Festival)
Alba, Italy
This historic Piedmontese city celebrates the white truffle with a month of festivities—
tastings, cooking demonstrations, awards, concerts, a literary festival, an art show,
a gourmet food marketplace, a major truffle auction, and the historic Donkey Palio.
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39/173/361-051;
www.fieradeltartufo.org
Zweibelmarkt (Onion Market)
Weimar, Germany
Three-day townwide festival (first held in 1658) includes a contest for the longest braid
of onions intertwined with flowers, and over 500 stalls selling crafts, sausage, cheese,
and, of course, onion soup and onion cake.
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49/3643/745-0;
www.weimar.de
NOVEMBER
Wurstfest
New Braunfels, Texas
This weeklong salute to East Texas's German heritage dishes up sausage, beer, and
sauerkraut in Landa Park along with oompah bands, yodelers, cloggers, and kinder-
choirs, plus sports events, tours, an art show, and family fun.
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830/25-9167;
www.wurstfest.com
Trois Glorieuses Wine Festival
Beaune, France
One of the wine world's most prestigious events, held since 1851, this 2-day celebration
includes street entertainment, tastings, and gala dinners, culminating in the annual wine
auction to benefit Hopsices de Beaune.
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33/3/80-26-21-30;
www.beaune-burgundy.com
Fête du Hareng Roi (King Herring Festival)
Etaples, France
Along the quay of this Brittany fishing town, this annual 2-day event has fishermen
dressed in local costume demonstrating traditional fishing methods, followed by music,
folk dancing, and feasting on grilled herring, baked potatoes, and mulled wine.
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33/3/21-09-56-94;
www.etaples-tourisme.com.
