{"id":24417,"date":"2017-07-12T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24417"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:06:48","slug":"eats-july-food-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/eats-july-food-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Well and Prosper at July Food Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lalobsta.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food nourishes the body, mind and soul &#8212; and, this week is no exception when California&#8217;s food festivals offer great &#8216;eats&#8217; and fantastic entertainment as seen at the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival, pictured. Among the treats are lobster, peaches, gourmet cuisine, chili, sustainable foods, bacon, BBQ, watermelon and a variety of tastes throughout the state at county fairs and street festivals, as well.<\/p>\n<h2>FREE FOOD!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday is National Ice Cream Day. McDonald&#8217;s is unveiling ice cream made with no artificial colors &amp; flavors. On Sunday, July 16, 2017 between 2-5 p.m. local time get One Free Vanilla Cone at participating restaurants nationwide when you download the McDonald\u2019s mobile app. The offer works both in-restaurant and via the drive-thru. For more information, visit playatmcd.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-food.html\">Food Festivals for all Tastes<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SAN PEDRO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-pedro-lobster-festival.html\">Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival<\/a> July 14-16, 2017, \u00a0pictured<\/li>\n<li>MENLO PARK: Hacking Food &#8211; Silicon Valley&#8217;s Sustainable Food Festival July 13<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: California Wine Festival, July 13-15<\/li>\n<li>SAN LUIS OBISPO: Bacon &amp; Barrels Festival July 14-16<\/li>\n<li>DIXON: Grillin and Chillin Chili Cookoff July 15<\/li>\n<li>CHICO: Slice of Chico July 14-15<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\">French Festival<\/a> July 15-16<\/li>\n<li>SARATOGA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/saratoga-hakone-tea-ceremony.html\">Hakone Tea Ceremony<\/a> Sunday July 16<\/li>\n<li>MARYSVILLE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/marysville-peach-festival.html\">Peach Festival<\/a> July 14-15<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MONICA: Garagiste Festival: Urban Exposure July 15<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANT HILL: Blues &amp; Brews Festival July 14-15<\/li>\n<li>NAPA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/napa-festival-del-sole.html\">Festival Napa Valley<\/a> July 14-23<\/li>\n<li>TEHACHAPI: Tehachapi Mt. Brew &amp; Food Fest July 15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food nourishes the body, mind and soul &#8212; and, this week is no exception when California&#8217;s food festivals offer great &#8216;eats&#8217; and fantastic entertainment as seen at the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival, pictured. Among the treats are lobster, peaches, gourmet cuisine, chili, sustainable foods, bacon, BBQ, watermelon and a variety of tastes throughout [&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\/24417"}],"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=24417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}