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The Gilroy Garlic Festival

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Gilroy Garlic Festival

Gilroy Garlic Festival

If you’ve heard of Gilroy, chances are you’ve heard of the Gilroy Garlic Festival. This mammoth festival in California is held every year in July and just about puts and keeps Gilroy on the map, as far as festivals are concerned. If you’re headed to the Gilroy Garlic Festival, you’re into one thing and one thing only – food and all its many and sundry manifestations.

Every year at the end of July, when the sun’s rays are just about at their hottest, people flock in droves to the dusty fields of Gilroy to see 10 tons of beef, 4 tons of pasta, 4 tons of calamari, 2 tons of shrimp, and 2 tons of garlic cooked-off in an incredible array of pastas, chilis, sandwiches, gumbos, and competitions, all with the motive of charity fund-raising. Cooking demonstrations, fire-grilling contests, and more food stands than you could shake a garlic clove at, the Gilroy Garlic Festival is not one to be missed if you’re a foodie, food-lover, or general food dilettante.

The event takes place this July 27th, 28th, and 29th and comes complete with shuttle parking transfers and live music. Some may say that the dusty trail is a hot one, but if the idea of spending the day in the sun, drinking beer and eating tons of garlic, kangaroo, alligator, chili, stuffed mushrooms, and who-knows what else entices you, then you’ll be headed to the right spot. Bottom line: if you’re the type who loves to go to New Orleans’ Jazz and Heritage Festival for the food, you’ll love the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

-Hudson

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