Weekend Picks: Festivals and Fairs
It’s a big weekend for food and wine lovers at the Jersey Fresh Food and Wine Festival, Saturday and Sunday at Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington. Taste wines from the state’s vineyards, attend seminars by wine and food experts, and try food from Brothers Moon and Nomad Pizza Company in Hopewell, The Bent Spoon, Tre Piani Restaurant and Underground Café in Princeton, and High Street Grill in Mt. Holly.
Want more? There’s a tomato tasting Sunday at Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Whippany. Try different varieties of tomatoes, learn how to grow them, and attend cooking demonstrations sponsored by Slow Food NJ, an organization that promotes enjoyment of healthy, locally grown food.
Still more? The Anderson House Seafood Festival (they’re also having burgers, homemade ice cream, crafters, kid’s amusements) Saturday in Flemington benefits Anderson House, a residential program for women recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction.
Down the Shore, there’s a craft show Saturday and Sunday on the promenade in Cape May. Nearby in Historic Cold Spring Village you’ll find the 23rd Annual Antique Show and Sale, Saturday-Sunday too. And at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park Mike Marino, "New Jersey's Bad Boy of Comedy," does his Enn-Jay oriented standup Saturday night
Or how about baseball and a movie? Watch the Newark Bears at home against the Somerset Patriots at 6:05 p.m. Saturday, then after the game bring blankets and lawn chairs on the field for a showing of last summer’s blockbuster Transformers on a 32-foot screen.
Equine enthusiasts can check the out the Festival of Horses Sunday at Horse Park of New Jersey in Allentown for a hunter/jumper show, pony rides, and educational displays of the different horses bred in the Garden State.
Plus some old time fairs. Salem County’s runs through tonight in Woodstown. Middlesex County’s is on until Sunday in East Brunswick. There’s a Pine Barrens Festival in Tabernacle until Saturday. And the New Jersey State Fair will be at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta through the weekend.
There’s also a celebration of the new Nueva Jersey as the state’s Ecuadorians mark the independence of their homeland on Sunday. There’s a parade with floats and marching bands at noon on Bergenline Ave. from West New York to Union City followed by a festival with traditional crafts, food and music. There’s no official website, but Fiallo’s Records has a page in Spanish with more information.
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