Top International Food Festivals:

Iceland Food & Fun Festival:

  • Official Site:  Iceland Food & Fun
  • Dates:  March 
  • Location:  Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Description:  Food and Fun mixes outstanding culinary skills, fresh natural ingredients, Icelandic outdoor adventure and the world-famous Reykjavik nightlife to create the ultimate recipe for fun.The core element of the festival involves world-acclaimed and upcoming chefs from both Europe and USA collaborating with Reykjavik’s finest restaurants. Each chef is assigned to one of the participating restaurants, where they prepare a special menu crafted from Icelandic ingredients only, commonly held to be the best in the world by Icelanders. The menus are presented at all the restaurants for an entire week.

World Gourmet Summit:

  • Official Site:   World Gourmet Summit
  • Dates:  March - April
  • Location:  Singapore
  • Description:  Inaugurated in 1997 as part of Singapore Tourism Board’s initiative to establish Singapore as a culinary destination, the World Gourmet Summit has successfully grown into a globally recognized gastronomic event – World Gourmet Series.  Encompassing a series of dazzling events such as the Wine & Restaurant Experience, Awards Of Excellence and World Gourmet Summit, the World Gourmet Series has had more than 140,000 guests attending over the 15 years.

Cayman Cookout:

  • Official Site:  Cayman Cookout
  • Dates:  January
  • Location:  Grand Cayman Island
  • Description:  Join Chef Eric Ripert for a weekend celebrating food, wine and the natural beauty of the Caribbean at The Ritz-Carlton, a premier Grand Cayman Island resort.  An incomparable roster of world famous chefs, wine experts and spirits blenders will offer tastings, demonstrations, tours and dinners that celebrate the barefoot elegance that only the Cayman Islands can deliver.

Terra Madre & Salone del Gusto:

  • Informational Site:  Slow Food USA
  • Dates:   September, 2018 (Occurs every 2 years)
  • Location:  Turin, Italy
  • Description:  Individuals from all over the world who are passionate about good, clean and fair food make a pilgrimage to Turin/Torino every two years to be a part of the world’s largest food and wine fair, Salone del Gusto, and the concurrent world meeting of food communities, Terra Madre.The best way to concisely describe Slow Food's biggest international event is to say that it’s an Olympics for Food — except instead of the competitive “Faster, Higher, Stronger,” the motto of this Food Olympics is “Slower, Slower, Slower.”  The convening begins with an opening ceremony, held in Turin's Olympic Stadium. Official delegates from more than 100 countries gather to represent the very best of what their country’s food systems have to offer.

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