Cream Cheese Festival!

Cream Cheese fans rejoice! There is a whole day that is devoted to everything and anything relating to cream cheese. Nestled in the Adirondack foothills in Northern New York, the small town of Lowville has been celebrating the wonderful that is cream cheese for four years now.

            The festival held, once a year is held in downtown Lowville. The town of 3,500 gathers for the festivities which include everything from a Cream Cheese Toss, cream cheese bingo, cream cheese recipe contest, to a bagel and cream cheese eating contest, and a ‘feed your friends face (with cheesecake of coarse) contest. Other non-cream cheese events include a scarecrow contest, a pet fashion contest, a parade and a stage with live music all day long. The biggest attraction the festival has to offer is the arrival of the world’s largest cheesecake, made with Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese, which sponsors the festival. Hungry cheesecake enthusiasts will line up as soon as the festival starts and will wait up to two hours in line for there slice of the heavenly and gigantic cake. That is dedication if I’ve ever heard it.

            If you want to check out the festival for yourself your in luck, it’s Saturday September 20, 2008 from 11:00 am to 6:00pm in Downtown Lowville, NY. If traveling from out of town make a whole trip out of it and experience the beauty of the region with its 3,000 lakes and ponds, and 2,000 miles of hiking trails. It’s not only a cream cheese gem of a town it’s a haven for outdoor recreation

            So move over garlic festival in Gilroy, CA; and watch out maple syrup festival of St. Albans, VT, there’s a new festival in town and its creamy goodness isn’t going anywhere. The Lowville cream cheese festival is taking the world by storm one bagel at a time.