{"id":24300,"date":"2017-05-29T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24300"},"modified":"2017-05-29T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T22:38:52","slug":"fresh-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fresh-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Fest Highlights: Cherries, Artichokes, Apricots and Olives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/beaucher.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a week for feasts! Memorial Day\u00a0BBQs are merely warm-ups for a summer of tasty treats starting with\u00a0baked cherry pie, 30 olive themed dishes, apricot ice cream and artichokes prepared by Monterey&#8217;s best chefs. Pictured is Beaumont Cherry Festival.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/june-food.html\">June Food Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BEAUMONT: Cherry Festival June 1-4, 2017 &#8220;Fun for all and all for fun&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>LOS OLIVOS: Jazz &amp; Olive Festival June 3 sampling 30 different olive-themed dishes prepared by local chefs<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Castroville Artichoke Festival June 3-4 Monterey Bay area chefs love to show off their artichoke cooking culinary skills<\/li>\n<li>PATTERSON: Patterson Apricot Fiesta June 2-4 Apricot Pie Eating Contest<\/li>\n<li>SAN LEANDRO: San Leandro Cherry Festival June 3 Cherry Pie Bake-off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Specialty, Ethnic Foods<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>COSTA MESA: Lions Club Fish Fry June 2-4<\/li>\n<li>DOWNEY: St. George Greek Festival June 2-4<\/li>\n<li>HOLLISTER: Portuguese Festival June 3 &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<li>LANCASTER: Blazing Saddles Gala &amp; Grand Auction June 3<\/li>\n<li>LODI: Taco Truck Cook-off June 3<\/li>\n<li>McKINLEYVILLE: Pony Express Days Chili Cook Off May 31<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: La Merienda, Custom House Plaza June 3<\/li>\n<li>NORCO: Horse Town Brew n Que Festival June 3<\/li>\n<li>PALM SPRINGS: Palm Springs Restaurant Week June 2-11<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Taste of Summer June 3-4<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: San Jose Greek Festival June 2-4<\/li>\n<li>SAN LUIS OBISPO: SLO Greek Festival June 3-4<\/li>\n<li>WRIGHTWOOD: Taste of the Village June 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week for feasts! Memorial Day\u00a0BBQs are merely warm-ups for a summer of tasty treats starting with\u00a0baked cherry pie, 30 olive themed dishes, apricot ice cream and artichokes prepared by Monterey&#8217;s best chefs. Pictured is Beaumont Cherry Festival. June Food Festivals BEAUMONT: Cherry Festival June 1-4, 2017 &#8220;Fun for all and all for fun&#8221; [&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\/24300"}],"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=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}