{"id":17038,"date":"2014-07-22T02:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17038"},"modified":"2014-07-22T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T09:46:14","slug":"groovy-garlic-weekend-is-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/groovy-garlic-weekend-is-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Groovy Garlic Weekend is Hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/garlyfes.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GILROY, CALIF.&#8211;You\u00a0can&#8217;t ignore\u00a0that\u00a0pungent, yet\u00a0 intoxicating aroma when\u00a0strolling down the midway at the annual\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/gilroy-garlic-festival.html\">Gilroy Garlic Festival <\/a>held\u00a0July 25-27, 2014 at Christmas Hill Park.\u00a0With 100,000 guests expected to attend the event, the popularity of the local crop is undeniable. In this gigantic outdoor kitchen, the &#8216;Pyro Chefs&#8217; put on a spectacular flame&#8211;up show while preparing garlic-\u00ad?laced calamari and scampi in huge iron skillets. Meanwhile, hundreds of volunteers prepare other Gourmet Alley favorites, including pepper steak sandwiches, pasta con pesto, stuffed mushrooms, and sausage sandwiches, as well as garlic fries and garlic bread. Top off your meal with\u00a0garlic flavored ice cream!\u00a0\u00a0Highlights include:<\/p>\n<p>1: Gourmet Alley Food<br \/>\n2: Free Garlic Ice Cream<br \/>\n3: Flame-ups by Gourmet Alley Pyro Chefs<br \/>\n4: Cook-off Theater<br \/>\n5: Arts &amp; Crafts<br \/>\n6: Children\u2019s Area<br \/>\n7: Gourmet Alley Demonstration Stage<br \/>\n8: Wine Pavilion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILROY, CALIF.&#8211;You\u00a0can&#8217;t ignore\u00a0that\u00a0pungent, yet\u00a0 intoxicating aroma when\u00a0strolling down the midway at the annual\u00a0\u00a0Gilroy Garlic Festival held\u00a0July 25-27, 2014 at Christmas Hill Park.\u00a0With 100,000 guests expected to attend the event, the popularity of the local crop is undeniable. In this gigantic outdoor kitchen, the &#8216;Pyro Chefs&#8217; put on a spectacular flame&#8211;up show while preparing garlic-\u00ad?laced calamari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}