{"id":25913,"date":"2019-04-16T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25913"},"modified":"2019-04-16T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T22:11:03","slug":"spam-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/spam-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemons, Spam and Many Foods at April Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/uplem.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the month of April many are thinking about May festivals celebrating strawberries and other tasty treats. Not so fast &#8212; there&#8217;s plenty to appreciate when it comes to this month&#8217;s feasts. From BBQ and berries to nuts or lemonade, bacon to tacos, Spam to spicy chili, it may end up in one place (your stomach,) but the variety of aromas, textures and tastes make April a great month to celebrate food.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/april-food.html\">April Food Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Santa Maria BBQ Festival April 20, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento\u00a0Beer &amp; Chili Festival April 20<\/li>\n<li>San Diego&#8217;s Taste of Liberty Station April 24<\/li>\n<li>Santa Maria\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-maria-strawberry-festival.html\">Strawberry Festival<\/a>\u00a0 April 26-28<\/li>\n<li>Cerritos\u00a0 Spring Festival Food Truck Rally April 26-28<\/li>\n<li>Sausalito\u00a05th Annual Lexus Culinary Classic April 26-28<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/upland-lemon-festival.html\"> Upland Lemon Festival<\/a> April 26-28<\/li>\n<li>Perris Tamale Express Tamale Festival April 27<\/li>\n<li>Colfax\u00a0Chocolate Wine and Art Indulgence, April 27<\/li>\n<li>Lodi Beerfest &amp; BBQ Championship April 27<\/li>\n<li>Atascadero Brew at the Zoo April 27<\/li>\n<li>Boonville&#8217;s\u00a0Anderson Valley Brewers Beer Festival April 27<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-butter-eggs-festival.html\">Petaluma Butter &amp; Egg Day<\/a> Parade &amp; Celebration April 27<\/li>\n<li>Porterville\u00a0Iris Festival Chili Cook-off April 27<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles\u00a0Simply diVine: Food &#8211; Wine &#8211; Spirits April 27<\/li>\n<li>St. Helena\u00a0Hall Cabernet Cookoff April 27<\/li>\n<li>Taste of Pismo April 27-28<\/li>\n<li>Hughson Fruit &amp; Nut Festival April 27-28<\/li>\n<li>Cupertino Cherry Blossom Festival\u00a0 April 27-28<\/li>\n<li>San Diego\u00a0Tequila and Tacos Festival April 27-28<\/li>\n<li>Eureka&#8217;s\u00a0Spamley Cup Cook-Off April 28<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach&#8217;s\u00a0Taste of HB Sunday April 28<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-teas.html\">Teas<\/a>: San Pedro, Sunnyvale, Woodland, Saratoga, Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halfway through the month of April many are thinking about May festivals celebrating strawberries and other tasty treats. Not so fast &#8212; there&#8217;s plenty to appreciate when it comes to this month&#8217;s feasts. From BBQ and berries to nuts or lemonade, bacon to tacos, Spam to spicy chili, it may end up in one place [&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\/25913"}],"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=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25914,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/25914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}