2011 WEST VIRGINIA 2011
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Event
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January 21-23, 2011 Festival of Food and Wines - Morgantown, West Virginia
An adventure of food, wine, non-stop cooking classes, seminars, local craftsman & all new Farmers Market!
April 7-9, 2011 21st Annual West Virginia Beef Expo - Weston, West Virginia
The expo will include livestock shows and sales, crowning of the Beef Queen, photo exhibit, beef cook-offs and more.
April 8-9, 2011 5th Annual Chocolate Festival - Lewisburg, West Virginia
The Festival includes an exciting schedule of events centered on the chocolate theme: musical performances, chocolate themed dinners, chocolate tastings, and fun for all ages.
April 16, 2011 Feast of the Ramson Ramp Feed & Ramp Festival - Richwood, WV
The festival celebrates 73 years of food, music, ramp dinner, cloggers and an art & craft show. Ramps and Wild leeks is what it is all about, incredible wild plants & edibles. Richwood is home to the NRA--The National Ramp Association.
May 18-22, 2011 69th Annual West Virginia Strawberry Festival - Buckhannon, WV
The Festival is a unique, traditional celebration to promote the strawberry harvest. Enthusiastic volunteers provide good, family style entertainment, with educational and cultural events for everyone.
July 22-24, 2011 29th Upper Ohio Valley Italian Festival - Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is home to the third-largest Italian festival in the country. Food is provided by over 100 specialty vendors and visitors are treated to a celebration of anything and everything Italian in a setting complete with music and culture.
August 4-6, 2011 Blackberry Festival - Nutter Fort, West Virginia
This great 3-day food festival has lots of wonderful blackberry dishes and other foods, arts & crafts, 5K Run, fireworks, games and lots and lots of free entertainment.
August 18-21, 2011 11th Annual Roasters Guild Retreat - Roanoke, West Virginia
Speciality Coffee Association of America.
August 27, 2011 Taste of Appalachia - Buckley, West Virginia
Food vendors & free concerts; Part of the 15th Annual Appalachian Festival which also features arts & crafts, folk music and coal mine tours.
August 27, 2011 4th Annual Wheeling Wine & Jazz Festival - Wheeling, West Virginia
West Virginia wines, smooth Jazz music, and the breathtaking backdrop of the Heritage Port are just some of things you experience at this must-see annual event.
August 27-28, 2011 West Virginia State Honey Festival - Parkersburg, West Virginia
A festival designed to promote the bee industry with lots of crafts, great food, great entertainment, and a Kid's Zone for children.
August 27-28, 2011 Slow Food Roots Music Festival - Stanwood, West Virginia
Celebrating the quality and richness of the Port Susan community, this two day event features the best in organic & wholesome food vendors, farmers markets, chef demos, and films. Plus two stages with national and local roots musicians, a beer garden and kids stuff, too!
September 9-11, 2011 41st Annual Nicholas County Potato Festival - Summersville, WV
Celebrates potato farming, which is a significant part of Nicholas County's heritage. The festival is geared towards the family and provides an array of activities.
September 11-15, 2011 Symposium for Professional Food Writers at The Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Professional food writers and editors only, limited to 90 attendees. Speakers and participants remain over the days, allowing ultimate interaction among authors of food and cookbooks, recipe developers, ghost writers, journalists and bloggers, as well as major magazine writers, newspaper food editors, renowned cookbook authors, literary agents, publishers, writing and other coaches and more.
September 15-18, 2011 Clay County Golden Delicious Festival - Clay, West Virginia
Indulge in a taste of fun in Clay, birthplace of the Golden Delicious apple, official state fruit of West Virginia.
September 24, 2011 26th Autumn Harvest Festival & 21st Annual WV Roadkill Cook-off
Marlinton, West Virginia
The West Virginia Road Kill Cook-off is one of the region’s most exciting and fun annual events. In years past, the Food Network, the Travel Channel and the Discovery Channel have all done filming of this wild and wacky festival! If you’ve ever wanted to taste exotic dishes like squirrel gravy over biscuits, teriyaki marinated bear or deer sausage, this is the place!
September 29-Oct 2, 2011 70th Annual Buckwheat Festival - Kingwood, West Virginia
The festival's namesake- buckwheat- is served each year as deliciously sour cakes that can be smothered in butter and syrup or applesauce. Festival highlights include livestock shows, arts & crafts, parade, music and fireworks.
October 6-9, 2011 West Virginia Pumpkin Festival - Milton, West Virginia
Started in 1985, the festival was designed to help farmers with the raising and selling of pumpkins. The festival attracts attention from throughout the region and features a variety of activities aimed at families.
October 13-16, 2011 West Virginia Black Walnut Festival - Spencer, West Virginia
The 57th annual event will feature food, entertainment, car show, livestock show, carnival, and awards for the finest mature black walnut and hickory nut specimens from around the state, judged for the quality and size of their kernels.
October 13-16, 2011 Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival - Martinsburg, West Virginia
Parade, cooking demonstration, arts & crafts, square dance, and tours of the WV University Tree Fruit Research Center. Many contests: best apple pie, artistic apple arrangements, best grower, photography, apple eating, apple peeling, and apple variety identification.
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