Feast on a Good Time. . . at Food-Related Festivals Handy Blues Festival S avor some 80,000 pounds of slow-cookin’ pork and chicken at Paducah’s Barbecue on the River . Sink your teeth into fried chicken dinners served from the world’s largest stainless-steel skillet during London’s World Chicken Festival . Get a bite of barbecue, rice, beans and other delectables served on the side at Henderson’s week-long W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival . Like Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Col. Harland Sanders would say, “It’s fi nger-lickin’ good.” ™ The Bowling Green Bourbon & Brewfest pours from a selection of more than three dozen fi ne Kentucky bourbons and craft beers at this event that also includes food trucks, live music and giveaways. Goetta pretzels, goetta pizza, goetta burritos – goetta donuts? Beloved among northern Kentuckians and a refl ection of the area’s Southern and German roots, this spicy regional sausage is celebrated at Glier’s Goettafest in the village that embodies its German heritage: MainStrasse. All hail mighty bourbon! Go VIP for Bardstown’s seven-day Kentucky Bourbon Festival , which has a growing list of signature events, including the Great Kentucky Bourbon Tasting & Gala™ and Kentucky Bourbon All-Star Sampler™ , with a rare chance to meet all of the Kentucky Distiller Association’s Master Distillers. Cheers! Barbecue ribs Kentucky Bourbon Festival Kentucky’s food fests serve up everything from beef to bourbon to barbecue. As the largest beef cattle-producing state east of the Mississippi, Kentucky shows where the beef is during Harrodsburg’s two-day Fort Harrod Beef Festival . For more information on these and other Kentucky events, visit: kentuckytourism.com/ events kentuckytourism.com 41
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