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Top Ten Food Festivals

Going to festivals is always fun, but going to festivals that have delicious food is even better! Here are some of our favourite food festivals around the world. They celebrate special foods that are made or grown in that part of the country.

1 If you like chocolate, you will love Eurochocolate. This festival takes place in October every year, in Perugia in Italy. It lasts for nine days. What does it celebrate? Chocolate, of course! Nearly one million people go to the festival every year. The streets are full of places to buy different kinds of chocolate snacks. You can also see chocolate sculptures. One year there was a huge igloo made from chocolate bricks! At the end the sculptures are broken up and given to people at the festival to eat!

2 The Gilroy Garlic Festival is one of the largest food festivals in the US. The festival takes place every year in Gilroy, California.

It happens on the last weekend in July and it is one of the best garlic festivals in the world! So, what do people do? Well, they eat lots of things made with garlic, including garlic ice cream and garlic chips! There are also garlic cooking demonstrations!

If you like garlic, this is a great festival to go to!

3 If you go to India in July, you should go to the Mango Festival!

In India, mangoes are called 'the king of fruits. Mangoes are grown in India and they are very popular! The mango festival is in Delhi and goes on for two days. There are more than 500 types of mango! You can taste different mango dishes, mango jams, mango juices, mango desserts and anything else with mango in it! There is also a competition with a prize for the biggest mango!