Of course, in typical garlic fashion, it isn’t content with simply doing good inside your body, it wants to help others as well. Sixteen organizations profit from the three-day affair, even the Boy Scouts get into the action – so you don’t have to feel guilty if you get seconds (or thirds) on the ice cream. Garlic would want it that way.
In addition to great food, expect more than a hundred vendors selling everything from fine art to fun, trinkety collectables, and an education courtesy of Garlic University in what makes this herb so very cool. Chillax with a glass of merlot in the Cloves & Vine Wine bar, or shake what you got in the live music area. Saturday is the most active one of the festival; it’s the first round of the Chef Competition, in which local culinary masterminds from Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach show off what they can do with a bunch of cloves. There’s also a long list of rockin’ bands scheduled to perform before headlining act Blues Traveler takes the stage at 8 p.m. It all goes down at and around the Delray Beach Historic Old School Square (51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach). Tickets cost $10 a day but are $20 for those arriving after 5 p.m. on Saturday. Visit www.dbgarlicfest.com.
Fri., Feb. 8; Sat., Feb. 9; Sun., Feb. 10, 2008
