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Vegetarian food festivals include VegFests in Boston, Massachusetts Salt Lake City, Utah and San Francisco, California Seattle, Washington including the premier Boston Vegetarian Food Festival in autumn, an event originally copied from the then already longstanding Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair in Toronto, Ontario. Other festivals include 626 Night Market in Arcadia, California Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California Brentwood Cornfest in Brentwood, California Mushroom Festivals in various locales the Castroville Artichoke Festival, in Castroville, California the Stockton Asparagus Festival, in Stockton, California the ¡Latin Food Festival! in San Diego, California the Lexington Barbecue Festival in North Carolina the Posen Potato Festival, in Posen, Michigan the Norwalk Oyster Festival, in Norwalk, Connecticut, Vaisakhi Festival in Yuba City, California, and the Howell Melon Festival in Howell, Michigan, known for electing the Howell Melon Queen. There are several Florida food festivals and New Jersey food festivals. Main page: Category:Food and drink festivals in North America Canada Studies have shown that engagement with food tourism indicates that an individual will attend festivals again in the future, indicating a cooperative element to food tourism and food festival attendance. Food tourism is also an important reason why people attend food festivals around the world. Several case studies have shown that food festivals can potentially improve social sustainability while also heavily supporting the tourism and hospitality industries. Food festivals are an important part of destination branding for many regions, creating an event-based reason for individuals to visit otherwise unattractive localities and promote local products and services outside of an urban product environment. Food tourism itself has become an important part of the tourism industry worldwide, and the presence of food festivals shown to support local industry development. Food Tourism įood festivals are quickly becoming part of a vast food tourism industry. Modern food festivals are also a large part of the food tourism industry, which uses food festivals and regional cuisine to support the broader tourism industry of a particular locality. While historically aligned with culturally significant food harvesting periods, contemporary food festivals are usually associated with businesses entities or nonprofit organizations and engage a great deal of marketing for their festivals, since their success is measured off how much revenue they generate for the local community, region, or entity putting on the event. Food festivals are considered strengthening agents for local cultural heritage, and simultaneously celebrate this cultural heritage while also commodifying it for a broader national or international audience. Food Festivals throughout the world are often based on traditional farming techniques, seasons Food festivals are related to food culture of an area, whether through the preparation of food served or the time period in which the festival is celebrated.