Thousands pack Gilroy for garlic fest
GILROY, Calif., July 25 (UPI) -- The first-place recipe at the 32nd Gilroy Garlic Festival in California was Margi Berry's "Warm Weather Watermelon Crabmeat Kissed South Seas Soup".
"I feel pretty awesome," the Trout Lake, Wash., woman said Saturday. "I tasted everyone else's dish and I didn't think I had a chance".
Berry, who beat out 800 recipe submissions and seven other finalists, explained her take on cooking with the odoriferous cloves: "For me, garlic is so essential. It's like salt and pepper".
Before all was said and done Sunday, a record 100,000-plus people were expected to show up at the fundraising event to eat garlic ice cream and other exotic culinary delights made with the onion's smelly cousin.
Festival volunteer Jeanne Foisy, who answers to "Mrs. Garlic," says it's "about good food, good friends and good fun".
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