More than 4,000 visitors attended this popular event last year and the number is expected to increase this year.
Some of the activites include; Best Bartenders Drink Making Contest, The Hospitable Waiters Race, and the Tailgate Gourmet Challenge. Here local chefs showcase their culinary talents at the outdoor tailgate kitchen. Other events include “Cooking with Books.â€, hosted by the Beufort lirary and “Marshside: What’s for dinner?†hosted by The Coastal Discovery Museum.
The FoodFest 2007 schedule includes events transpiring at individual food establishments and at the festival’s central location of Shelter Cove Community Park on Hilton Head Island.
Call 843.686.4944 for more information or visit the website www.hiltonheadhospitalityassociation.com
Jekyll Island, Ga. –Wildlife enthusiasts are expected to flock again to Georgia’s Colonial Coast Birding & Nature Festival held on Jekyll Island October 12-14, 2007. The fifth annual festival offers a variety of entertainment and educational activities including a keynote speech by Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology Director, Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s rediscovery; Saturday’s FREE Nature Day event for families and youth; plus seminars and field trips highlighting coastal Georgia’s abundant natural beauty and wildlife. The Jekyll Island Convention Center will serve as the hub for festival activities, and field trip excursions will include many of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division’s (DNR/WRD) Colonial Coast Birding Trail sites.