FOOD EVENTS

Fancy Food Show Summer 2012

June 17-19, 2012

Walter E Washington Convention, Washington DC

North America’s Largest Specialty Food & Beverage Event is back in D.C. this June. Discover 180,000 products including confections, cheese, coffee, snacks, spices, ethnic, natural, organic and more. Connect with 2,400 exhibitors from 81 countries & regions. 

New York City Food Festival

New York City; October 2012
New York City’s premier food fest offers over 120 events, from Brooklyn to Harlem, with talks from heralded chefs like Marcus Samuelsson and Ferran Adrià, as well as food-TV personalities like Duff Goldman and Guy Fieri. Best part? One hundred percent of the proceeds benefit the Food Bank for New York City and Share Our Strength, a nonprofit aimed at eliminating childhood hunger.

Food Classic in Aspen

Aspen, CO; June 15-17, 2012
Launched in 1982 as a humble wine tasting for locals, this is currently one of the world’s most exclusive and intimate culinary events. The crowd is capped at 5,000, which includes attendees and all chefs, press and pourers. Aspen is small and everything is close together, so you might have a casual run-in with your favorite food personality—Jacques Pépin, say, or Mario Batali.

South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2012

Miami; February 23-26, 2012
Set in sunny Miami Beach, this is like spring break for food lovers. A third of ticket sales are from out-of-towners wanting to escape the winter blues and hang out with international stars like Nobu Mastsuhisa and Alain Ducasse. I have the pleasure of hosting this year’s closing event, Trucks on the Beach, and I couldn’t be more excited. Fifteen food trucks, plus live music, right on the ocean? Heaven.

Cayman Cookout

Grand Cayman; January 12-15, 2012
Mix a fantastic Caribbean vacation with world-class cuisine at the Cayman Cookout. Hosted at the Ritz-Carlton by chef Eric Ripert, this food event is the epitome of luxury, packed with unique tastings, demonstrations, tours and dinners. It might be the only high-end food event you can enjoy in your bare feet.

Testicle Festival

Rock Creek Lodge, Clinton, Montana; August 2012
Next year’s annual Testy Festy on beautiful Rock Creek marks the 30-year anniversary of this adults-only homage to the testicle. Seven-thousand festival-goers gather to snack on Rocky Mountain oysters, compete in ball-eating contests and cheer on folks crazy enough to enter the Undie 500—a tricycle race executed in only your skivvies. Sure, it’s bit crass, but hey, it’s fun.

Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest

Tiger Lane at the Mid-South Fairgrounds, Memphis; May 17-19, 2012
There are a lot of great barbecue festivals, but this one might be my favorite. Hundreds of teams compete for top honors in categories like whole hog, ribs, hot wings, sauce and more. Mix in live music and the Ms. Piggie competition (imagine: grown men dressed like pigs in tutus, belting out songs at the top of their lungs), and you’ve got a fantastic food-filled weekend.

Lollapalooza

Grant Park, Chicago; August 3-5, 2012
When you think Lolla, you probably think music, but food should be right up there as well. Celebrity chef and music-head Graham Elliot Bowles is the man behind the food vendors, so expect the caliber of food to surpass any other music festival you’ve experienced. Anticipate lots of local flavor—tube steaks from Franks’N’Dawgs, barbecue from the Smoke Daddy, burgers from Kuma’s Corner and, of course, Graham’s own truffle popcorn and lobster corn dogs. This is the real taste of Chicago, people!

West Virginia Roadkill Cook-Off and Autumn Harvest Festival

Pocahontas County, West Virginia; September 29, 2012
The West Virginia Roadkill Cook-Off is one of the region’s best. What can I say: The people are amazing and welcoming; the food’s awesome. You get to see a piece of America that’s been bulldozed over in the other 49 states. I think WV is one of the most real places in the whole world, and this event showcases that perfectly.

Maine Lobster Festival

Rockland, Maine; first week in August
Just the idea of 20,000 pounds of lobster gets me excited. I’m not alone—this festival has enticed seafood lovers for 64 years. In addition to whole lobster served with butter, you can try steamed and fried regional clams, shrimp and mussels. If you’re worried about overdoing it, sign up for the 10K run, 5K walk or lobster crate race—a run across 50 partially submerged lobster crates.

Buffalo Wing Festival

Coca-Cola Field, Buffalo, New York; September 1-2, 2012
To say we’re obsessed with wings around our office is an understatement, so we dubbed the party dedicated to the quintessential bar food “bucket-list worthy.” Inspired by Bill Murray’s character in the film Osmosis Jones, this festival is all about wings—over 37 tons of wings. Expect every sauce, rub and dip you can think of (and plenty of napkins to wipe up the mess).

Smaka Pa Stockholm

Stockholm; June 1-6, 2012
Stockholm probably isn’t on your food-fest radar, but maybe it should be. It’s not all about meatballs, lingonberries and gravy. Swedes love fresh and organic cuisine, along with lots of international flavors. Over 400,000 people flock to Kungsträdgarden Park for Smaka Pa Stockholm (or Taste of Stockholm). There’s live music, people-watching and Swedish staples like fried herring with dill-lemon potatoes, as well as Indian and Thai curries. Don’t forget to wash it all down with a Carlsberg beer.

Grape Harvest Festival of Montmartre, Paris

Montmartre, Paris; October 2012
Celebrate world-class wines, fresh ingredients and chefs who consider butter its own food group at Fête des Vendanges de Montmartre. There’s fabulous French wine (including bottles from the 18th arrondissement’s own urban vineyard, Le Clos Montmartre) and food from vendors assembled near the Sacré-Coeur Basilica. It’s set up on Paris’s highest point, Butte de Montmartre, with one of the best views of the city.

P&G Children's Safe Drinking Water Program A Live, Learn and Thrive (R) signature initative

More than 4,000 children die every day from disease caused by drinking unsafe water. P&G, in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed a low cost technology, caller PUR (TM) to purify even heavily contaminated drinking water so that it meets World Health Organization standards for safe drinking water.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved new label claims for PURTM Purifier of Water specific to the removal of arsenic, the parasites Cryptosporidium and Giardia, and cause-marketing language.
The EPA has approved the PURTM Purifier of Water claim for: The removal of greater than 98% of arsenic.    Arsenic is odorless and tasteless and enters drinking water supplies from natural deposits in the earth or from agricultural and industrial practices.    Arsenic has been linked to cancer of the bladder, lungs, skin, kidney, liver, and prostate.

The removal of greater than 99.9% of Cryptosporidium and Giardia, which are the two parasites of primary concern for drinking water quality.    Cryptosporidium is very resistant to disinfection and has caused several large waterborne disease outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness in the U.S., including death in some immunocompromised people.

The cause-related marketing claims indicating that P&G will donate $0.10 for every PUR purchase. This level of donation is sufficient to provide 10 liters of safe drinking water in the developing world.
Reliance Products is the exclusive United States and Canada distributor of P&G’s PURTM Purifier of Water product, a powdered water clarification and disinfectant that comes in small, affordable, and easy-to-use packets. The product is designed for emergency preparedness use and situations where water is of unknown or questionable quality. Reliance retails both the PURTM Purifier of Water packets and a convenient mixing container kit.

P&G provides the PUR packets at cost, not-for-profit to humanitarian groups for use in the developing world. Any profits to P&G from sales of the packets in the United States will be used to support efforts to provide the PUR packets in the developing world. Using some of the same ingredients used in municipal water systems, PURTM Purifier of Water is engineered to be a mini-water treatment plant in a packet. The product removes dirt, cysts, and pollutants, and kills bacteria and viruses in contaminated water. By removing the dirt and sediment through a flocculation process, PURTM Purifier of Water gives a visible signal that water is clean and ready to drink.
P&G established the Children's Safe Drinking Water Program, a P&G Live, Learn, and Thrive InitiativeTM in 2003. Since its start-up, the program has provided over 1.3 billion liters of clean drinking water to people in developing nations with PURTM Purifier of Water. The product has been proven to purify and cleanse water in some of the harshest conditions imaginable including during the Southeast Asia tsunami, the Pakistan and Indonesian earthquakes, cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe, and floods in India, Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

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