{"id":8439,"date":"2012-09-06T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2012-09-25T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:42:09","slug":"big-beverage-and-food-weekend-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/big-beverage-and-food-weekend-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Beverage and Food Weekend in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bbbeer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter what your culture and how you say, &#8220;drink up!&#8221;, there&#8217;s an event waiting for you to check out this weekend with plenty of food and beverages. From Greek Ouzo with &#8220;Opa&#8221; to German beer, or Mexican tequila and &#8220;Salud&#8221;, there&#8217;s a cultural taste for everyone out there in cities throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\"><strong>Here are a few food and beverage events going on:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TORRANCE &#8211; German-American Heritage Day 2012 on September 9\u00a0 at Alpine Village. Celebrate German-American Day\u00a0 beginning at 1 p.m. The events will include the affiliated clubs of the German-American League joining in the &#8220;Grand Parade&#8221; that will feature their banners and costumes or tracht in the official opening ceremony. \u00a0 There will be also be special activities for adults and kids &#8211; and you&#8217;ll be able to try your luck to win a great prize at the German-American Heritage Day Tombola. Chefs of Alpine Village will have a great menu of special home-made German food, great beer and drinks.\u00a0 Location: 833 Torrance Blvd., Torrance CA.\u00a0 Gates open at noon and a program of fun, music and dancing will begin at 1 p.m. Cost: Donation of $10 for 17 years and up.<\/li>\n<li>CERES &#8211; Assyrian Chaldean Food Festival, Sept. 8-9, 2012.\u00a0 CA. Call: 209-740-3450<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH &#8211; The Original Lobster Festival, Sept.7-9, 2012.\u00a0 originallobsterfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES &#8211; L.A. Greek Festival, September 7-9, 2012 . lagreekfest.com<\/li>\n<li>TEHACHAPI &#8211; Oktoberfest and Volkswagen Car Show\u00a0Sept 8, 2012 . \u00a0 mainstreettehachapi.org<\/li>\n<li>TRACY &#8211; Tracy Dry Bean Festival September 8-9, 2012. \u00a0 tracybeanfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO &#8211; Coors Light Crawfish &amp; Catfish Festival, September 8 &amp; 9, 2012.\u00a0 louisianasue.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO &#8211; The Spirits of Mexico, September 9-15, 2012.\u00a0 thespiritsofmexico.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival, September 8 &amp; 9, 2012,\u00a0 ghirardellisq.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what your culture and how you say, &#8220;drink up!&#8221;, there&#8217;s an event waiting for you to check out this weekend with plenty of food and beverages. From Greek Ouzo with &#8220;Opa&#8221; to German beer, or Mexican tequila and &#8220;Salud&#8221;, there&#8217;s a cultural taste for everyone out there in cities throughout the state. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/8439"}],"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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}