25th Gilroy Garlic Festival Prepares to Unveil $80 Million Upgrade.News Editors GILROY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003 The 25th Gilroy Garlic Festival The Gilroy Garlic Festival is one of the largest food festivals in the United States, held annually in Gilroy, California on the last full weekend in July at Christmas Hill Park. The Gilroy Garlic Festival is considered by some to be the best garlic festival in the world. will unveil an $80 million upgrade to the Bay Area's signature summertime event July 25-27 at Christmas Hill Park here. The three-day food and entertainment extravaganza annually attracts over 125,000 visitors despite public laments over accessibility from southbound traffic arriving through the two-lane bottleneck south of San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. on Highway 101. However the State of California completed an $80 million highway expansion of 101 in May, widening north and southbound lanes to four tracks, a renovation that has received rave reviews from daily commuters. "Every resident of the South County was delighted to see 101 expanded," said 2003 Gilroy Garlic Festival Association President and Gilroy resident Ms. Janie Mardesich. "With regard to The Festival, this could have a bigger impact on Gourmet Alley than when we added the Peppersteak Sandwich to the Combo Plate." The Garlic Festival The Garlic Festival is a fundraising event that is held on the Isle of Wight. For 21 years, since 1985, the Newchurch Parish Sports & Community Association organised the annual Garlic Festival, achieving their major fund raising aims. and the Great Garlic Cook-Off, which will pit eight finalists strained from an international field of entrants on July 26 has been acclaimed "America's premier food festival" by sources ranging from The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times to Great Britain's BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . An army of 4,000-plus volunteers, having raised six million dollars for local non-profit organizations since 1979, will coordinate the performance of 60 live music concerts from three separate stages, host the daredevil inline skaters and bicyclists of the Got Milk? Gravity Tour and offer a litany of Epicurean delicacies prepared by a variety of food vendors and from the hub of the event, Gourmet Alley. The world renowned Pyro py·ro n. pl. py·ros Slang A person who has a compulsion to set fires; a pyromaniac. Chefs on Gourmet Alley, whose 20-foot high flames will be telecast globally, will prepare over 100,000 servings of garlic-enhanced calamari, scampi, pasta con pesto, stuffed mushrooms, garlic bread, a 2003 creation from cooking cronies SakaBozzo, Garlic-Ginger Chicken Stir-Fry, and the single most in-demand edible of American food fairs anywhere, the Peppersteak Sandwich. In reviewing expectations for The Festival's silver anniversary, President Mardesich confidently boasts of two significant items in addition to the improved transit accessibility: evolution and portability. "The motto of The Festival in 1979 was 'If Everyone Ate Garlic, We Wouldn't Need Mouthwash'," Ms. Mardesich recalled. "There can be no better example of how mankind has grown technologically than by the fact that at the turn of the 21st Century we are able to provide all our visitors with complimentary Listerine PocketPaks(R) Oral Care Strips to quell quell tr.v. quelled, quell·ing, quells 1. To put down forcibly; suppress: Police quelled the riot. 2. any breath issues four tons of garlic might present. "And our visitors annually express to us their dismay that The Festival is only three days long and there's nothing else like it anywhere for the next 362 days," Ms. Mardesich added. "This year there are at least three opportunities for visitors to take The Festival home with them." Gordon Biersch Micro-Brewery, creators of the popular garlic fries that are enjoyed at The Festival as well as at sports and concert venues along the West Coast, will be debuting pre-packaged garlic fries now available in the frozen food section of all Costco stores in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . And Val Filice, Master Chef of Gourmet Alley since Year One, has bottled his much-anticipated, critically-acclaimed Garlic Godfather Pasta Sauce, available at The Festival and in select food stores throughout Central and Northern California. "And to bring the spirit home 365 days a year," Ms. Mardesich summarized, "we've dressed up the Herbie Bobblehead Doll A bobblehead doll, also known as a bobbing head doll, nodder, or wobbler, is a type of collectible doll. Its head is often oversized compared to its body. in a tuxedo for our 25th anniversary and tripled our inventory after last year's incredible demand." The 2003 Gilroy Garlic Festival will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 25-27 at Christmas Hill Park on Miller Road in Gilroy. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for seniors (age 60-plus) and $5 for children age 6-12. Children under age 6 are admitted free. Discount coupons offering $2 off the adult general admission are available at all Nob Hill Noun 1. 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Addition information can be obtained by calling The Festival office at 408/842-1625 or by contacting the website at gilroygarlicfestival.com. |
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