Few things go better with travel than food. Isn’t that a big part of the whole reason we travel? I mean, one of the great wonders of the human race is how, over all the centuries and millennia we’ve been around, we’ve managed to create so many different cuisines, from the greasy, hyper-fattening, bland awfulness of British food (fish and chips excepted) to the mouth-searing, but divinely delicious bliss of Thai food.
So this lumbering preamble is to say that I think you should check out this post over at Slashfood that looks at some of the big food festivals around the country this year. Yes, I was talking in a more international sense, but here in the US we have all sorts of regions with their own specific cuisine or product worth celebrating. take, for example, the Gilroy garlic Festival. Sure, the town stinks (literally), but the festival, I have heard, is a really interesting and yummy experience. So pack your bags, warm up the car, and plan on hitting one of these festivals.