{"id":24427,"date":"2017-07-16T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24427"},"modified":"2017-07-16T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T08:03:50","slug":"garlic-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/garlic-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold Your Breath &#8212; Here Comes Gilroy Garlic Fest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/garlicslide.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They say there is only one way to embrace the smell of garlic on someone else &#8212; and that is to eat some, yourself! You can do just that at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 28-30, 2017<\/p>\n<h2>On the 2017\u00a0Gilroy Garlic Menu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gilroy Garlic Shrimp<\/li>\n<li>Garlic Scampi<\/li>\n<li>Zesty Garlic Fried Calamari<\/li>\n<li>Garlic Fries<\/li>\n<li>Roasted Garlic Chicken Quesadillas<\/li>\n<li>Garlic Cheesecake<\/li>\n<li>Garlic Kettlecorn<\/li>\n<li>Garlic Watermelon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/gilroy-garlic-festival.html\">Gilroy Garlic Festival<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>200+ tons of fresh, pungent garlic served<\/li>\n<li>Free samples of soft-serve garlic ice cream<\/li>\n<li>Caltrain offers &#8220;Garlic Train&#8221; from San Jose Diridon Station to Gilroy on \u00a0July 29 &amp; 30, pre-purchase online required<\/li>\n<li>Emmy award-winning Food Network\u00a0chef, Giada De Laurentiis, emcees\u00a0Garlic Showdown on July 30. Giada then prepares garlic-laced recipes on the Garlic Cook-Off Stage.<\/li>\n<li>50+ bands, acts<\/li>\n<li>On July 28, Guinness World Records recognizes Gilroy Garlic Festival as record holder for largest garlic festival attendance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-garlic.html\">California Garlic Farming<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>California is top producer of garlic in U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Gilroy is the Garlic Capital of America<\/li>\n<li>Top grower in California is Christopher Ranch<\/li>\n<li>China is top garlic producer with 75%\u00a0of world tonnage; U.S. ranks 4th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say there is only one way to embrace the smell of garlic on someone else &#8212; and that is to eat some, yourself! You can do just that at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival on July 28-30, 2017 On the 2017\u00a0Gilroy Garlic Menu Gilroy Garlic Shrimp Garlic Scampi Zesty Garlic Fried Calamari Garlic Fries [&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\/24427"}],"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=24427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}