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Delaware Food Festivals, Food & Wine Events, Food Shows, Fairs, Expos, etc
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2013 DELAWARE 2013 See also: 2012 - 2011 - 2010
February 14, 2013 Valentine's Day Most of the more than 1/2 million restaurants in the U.S. have special events scheduled for today. They are too numerous to list.
March 2, 2013 23rd Annual Rehoboth Beach Chocolate Festival Rehoboth Beach, Delaware It's a fabulous day of chocolate, with tastes galore, vendors, a raffle, kids games and much more! At the heart of the festival is the chocolate Baking Contest. The baking contest will feature more restaurant entries than ever before! It's a fabulous day of chocolate, with tastes galore, vendors, a raffle, kids games and much more!
March 4-8, 2013 National School Breakfast Week 2013 - Nationwide National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) was launched in 1989 to raise awareness of the availability of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) to all children. Each year, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) helps schools to celebrate NSBW with a fun theme – this year it is School Breakfast--Go For The Gold.
March 19, 2013 'AgDay' National Agriculture Day - Nationwide National Ag Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless other across America join together to recognize the contributions of agriculture.
April 18, 2013 Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation - Wilmington, Delaware Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation is the nation's premier culinary benefit, featuring top chefs and mixologists -- all of whom are coming together to donate their time, talent and passion to end childhood hunger in America.
April 19&21, 2013 Meals From The Masters - Wilmington, Delaware Join us for a culinary extravaganza! This weekend of events has grown from the success of our signature event, the Celebrity Chefs’ Brunch, into a spring weekend of culinary delights, including the Evening With The Masters and the Cellar Masters’ Wine Auction.
April 22, 2013 Earth Day - Worldwide The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
June 2-8, 2013 Restaurant Week 2013 - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Restaurant week features fabulous 3-course dinners all over town. Restaurants will be offering menus with $30 or $20 prix-fixe dinners for a full week in June. Some restaurants are even serving special lunch menus at $10 & $15. Find your favorites, see what they are serving and when they are open. No matter your culinary favorites or what’s in your wallet, there are treats for your palate!
JULY 4, 2013 - There are so many events on this day that they are too numerous to list. Virtually every community in the U.S. has a 4th of July celebration.
July 18-27, 2013 Delaware State Fair - Harrington, Delaware For nearly a century, the Delaware State Fair has hosted a wide variety of exhibits, with over 3,000,exhibitors competing in categories from Angus beef cattle to zinnias. Culinary competitions include the Blueberry Blow-out Contest, Crazy Over Cupcakes Contest, Homemade Ice Cream Making Contest, Wild Men & Women Cooking Contest, and More! Attendance: 300,000.
November 28, 2013 Thanksgiving Day - Nationwide All StatesThere are so many events on Thanksgiving Day they are to numerous to list. (4th Thursday in November).
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2012 DELAWARE 2012 FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS, SHOWS, EVENTS waiting for new dates
May 18-20, 2012 Peppers at the Beach 2012 - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Over 100 chefs from all over will be showing off their lines of products. Stop and chat with famous chefs who have been featured on Food Network. Included in the festivities will be chicken wing contests. This is a gathering of Chileheads at their best.
July 28, 2012 4th Annual Seafood & Arts Festival - Rehoboth Beach, Delaware The Indian River Marina at Delaware Seashore State Park is hosting their 4th Annual Arts and Seafood Festival. Come for a day full of art, seafood, live music and more!
August 4, 2012 20th Annual Peach Festival - Wyoming, Delaware Activities include a parade, live music, crafters, community displays, children's area, and peach dessert contest.
August 16, 2012 The Farmer And The Chef South 2012 - Millsboro, Delaware It's the 1st Annual homegrown cook-off that you get to judge! Local farmers and area chefs whip up the tastiest competition of the year. The premise is simple, pair local farmers and local chefs. While the event is a fundraiser for the March of Dimes, we also hope to help create sustainable relationships between farmers and chefs while reinforcing the movement of healthy eating. Attendees will be able to cast their vote for their favorite dish. Included in the evening's festivities are a silent auction and basket auction.
September 17-22, 2012 2012 Polish Festival - Wilmington, Delaware Sponsored by St. Hedwig Parish and held along the city riverfront. Welcome to the Polish Festival--where great food and entertainment bring people together.
September 20, 2012 The Farmer And The Chef 2012 - Wilmington, Delaware It's the 5th annual homegrown cook-off that you get to judge! Local farmers and area chefs whip up the tastiest competition of the year. The premise is simple, pair local farmers with local chefs. While the event is a fundraiser for the March of Dimes, we also hope to help create sustainable relationships between farmers and chefs while reinforcing the movement of healthy eating. Attendees will also be able to cast their vote for their favorite dish. Included in the evening's festivities are a silent auction and basket auction. NEW this year - to help celebrate our 5th anniversary we are having a Winner's Challenge featuring past winners of the People's Choice award. This Challenge will be judged by our celebrity panel. This promises to be exciting!
September 23, 2012 Wine and Dinosaurs - Wilmington, Delaware A wine and beer tasting festival with fine wines, specialty beers, live music, hors d'oeuvres, and a silent auction to benefit the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
September 30, 2012 9th Annual Taste of Newark - Newark, Delaware At the Taste of Newark event, guests have the opportunity to savor the culinary delights of more than 45 Newark restaurants, accompanied by the wares of the finest area wine distributors. A feature of Taste of Newark is the Battle of the Chefs, now in its fourth year. The battle features the city’s best chefs, who will have one hour to concoct delectable masterpieces from a secret list of ingredients. Taste of Newark helps support University of Delaware's Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management and the Downtown Newark Partnership.
October 7, 2012 Celebrity Chefs’ Beach Brunch - Dewey Beach, Delaware Slide on your flip flops and come enjoy the cuisine of top area chefs, fine wines & cocktails and a unique silent auction at the Rusty Rudder. Proceeds benefit Meals On Wheels Delaware.
October 12-13, 2012 21st Annual Bridgeville Apple-Scrapple Festival Bridgeville, Delaware Showcases the area's agriculture industry and celebrates Apples and Sussex County's favorite breakfast meat, Scrapple, a mainstay of the Bridgeville economy. Little Miss & Miss Apple Scrapple, ladies' skillet toss, 5K run, craft show, food, food, and more food! Attendance: 25,000.
October 21, 2012 Delaware Wine & Beer Festival - Felton, Delaware Festival-goers will have the opportunity to meet Delaware’s vintners and brewers and talk about their locations, their products and their processes. Festival goers can listen to music, play horseshoes or volleyball and even participate in a "grape stomp."
November 2-4, 2012 World Championship Punkin Chunkin - Bridgeville, Delaware Hardcore engineers and backyard tinkerers build their gigantic, home built contraptions with one common goal: to launch eight to 10-pound pumpkins as far as mechanically possible. The competition is divided into various categories depending on how the pumpkin is chucked: trebuchets, catapults, huge air cannons, human power, human power centrifugal class, and human power class. The World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association (WCPCA) is a nonprofit association started in 1986 that hosts the Punkin' Chunkin' World Championships, an event which raises money for scholarships and charitable organizations.
November 24, 2012 Dover Downs Chocolate Fest - Dover, Delaware Chocolate and candy vendors - Holiday marketplace - Ice carving competition.
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2011 DELAWARE 2011 Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events waiting for new dates
June 24, 2011 An Evening of Wine Under The Stars - Middletown, Delaware Join Us as we host, An Evening of Wine Under The Stars - Benefitting Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition - Starring: Wines, Beer, Cocktails, Culinary Delights, Live Entertainment by Vessa Fulton, Silent Auction & Door Prizes!
November 12, 2011 Dover Downs Wine & Music Festival - Dover, Delaware Journey back to the prohibition era and the secret underground bars of the Roarin 20's complete with jazz music, sophisticated fare and dozens of wines to sample.
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2010 DELAWARE 2010 Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Food Events events still waiting for new dates
August 21, 2010 Diamond State BBQ Championship - Dover, Delaware Come out to the Fifth Annual Diamond State BBQ Championship for fun in the sun, great entertainment, vendors, Big Boys Toys Show, Delaware's Strongest Man Contest, and - of course - mouth-watering BARBECUE!
October 9, 2010 Taste of Dover - Dover, Delaware Fundraiser for the programs of the Dover Art League. Featuring tastiest morsels from the best of Dover Restaurants.
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