{"id":7737,"date":"2012-08-22T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:12:05","slug":"cal-weekend-proves-that-food-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cal-weekend-proves-that-food-is-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Weekend Proves that Food is Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/olivtomat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Corning Olive Festival bed races to Irvine Lake tomato battles,\u00a0 in California you get to celebrate your food and eat it too! This weekend is a doozy when it comes to scrapping the diet. Swimsuit season is nearly over so go ahead and pork out&#8211;you deserve it after starving all summer long! The weekend offerings include cultural feasts ranging from Italian to Greek. Then there&#8217;s BBQ, or celebration of\u00a0 California crops such as olives and tomatoes. Culinary talents from local chefs combine with and crafted drinks&#8211;wine and beer, to make California&#8217;s food festivals a whole lot of fun, and delicious!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Food Festivals &amp; Events August 24-26, 2012<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-beer-festivals.html\">Beer Festivals<\/a> &#8211; Fortuna, Grass Valley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/corning-bed-races\/\">Olive Festival<\/a> &#8211; Corning<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tomato-festivals.html\">Tomato Festivals<\/a> &#8211; Silverado Canyon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-greek.html\">Greek Festivals<\/a> &#8211; Castro Valley, Fresno<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-loves-italian-festival-festa\/\">Italian Festivals<\/a> &#8211; San Jose<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/wineries\/california-grape-stomps.html\">Grape Stomps<\/a> &#8211; Escondido, Napa, San Jose,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-august.html\">Food Festivals<\/a> &#8211; Bodega Bay, Chula Vista, Mammoth Lakes, Petaluma<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-BBQ-cookoffs.html\">BBQ Festivals<\/a> &#8211; Lakeport<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PREVIOUS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/honesty-california-cities-test\/\">Honest Tea Test California&#8217;s Honesty <\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEXT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/know-the-water-before-you-go-to-california-beaches-in-last-summer-hurrah\/\">Know the Water Quality Before You Go to the Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Corning Olive Festival bed races to Irvine Lake tomato battles,\u00a0 in California you get to celebrate your food and eat it too! This weekend is a doozy when it comes to scrapping the diet. Swimsuit season is nearly over so go ahead and pork out&#8211;you deserve it after starving all summer long! The weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737"}],"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=7737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}