Registration now open for Mushroom Festival events
KENNETT SQUARE — Take your Mushroom Festival experience to the next level by registering for one of its special events such as the Antique and Classic Car Show, the Mushroom Run and Fun Walk, or the Cute-As-A-Button (Mushroom) Baby Photo Contest, or the Community Parade. Many events offer discounts for preregistration and include admission wristbands. All applications and online registration...
Mushroom Festival now accepting Cook-off entries
Kathleen Harmon’s Mushroom Taquitos won first place at last year’s Mushroom Cook-off.
KENNETT SQUARE — Mushrooms are the star of the Mushroom Festival’s Amateur Mushroom Appetizer Cook-Off. The challenge for home cooks is to create an appetizer featuring the mushrooms that are commercially grown in Kennett Square, such as button, crimini, portabella, oyster, maitake, and/or...
On Your Table: All things fungi at Kennett’s Mushroom Festival
While there’s lot to see and do, it comes down to food — and delicious mushrooms
By Cathy Branciaroli, Food Correspondent, The Times
Servers having lots of fun at the Ferranto food tent plating up fried mushrooms during this past weekend’s Mushroom Festival.
KENNETT SQUARE — People came hungry to the 28th annual Kennett Square Mushroom Festival last weekend and it was a good thing,...
Mushroom Festival results
KENNETT SQUARE — The following are the results of various events, contests and competitions from this past weekend’s Mushroom Festival, released Tuesday.
Official Results from the 29th Annual Mushroom Festival:
National Fried Mushroom Eating Championship
First Place Overall: Molly Schuyler with 11.5 pounds of fried mushrooms in 8 minutes, a new World Record!
Second Place Overall: Dave...
Mushroom Festival – 29 Years Strong and Growing
By Kim Chiomento, Staff Writer, The Times
Gov. Tom Corbett and his wife Susan were among a large number of dignitaries to join the local community for The Mushroom Festival this past weekend.
KENNETT – Delighted festival-goers were treated to a home-town parade, dining and dancing in the streets, tasting events, great shopping and mushroom exhibits this weekend.
Dignitaries — including...
What To Do: Mushroom Fest, Chadds Ford Days
Plus: two brew fests, the Brandywine Festival of the Arts and more
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
Featuring parades, music — and yes food, much of it revolving around the beloved mushroom — are all just a part of this year’s Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square.
There is a good reason that Kennett Square is called “The Mushroom Capital of the World.” The saying —...
Mushroom Festival remains a labor of love
A behind the scenes look: Bringing charitable support & family fun to the community
By Kim Chiomento, Staff Writer, The Times
Working to make the 2014 Mushroom Festival the best ever: 2014 Mushroom Festival Festival Director, Kathi Lafferty and Honorary Chair Terry Forte as they work on this year’s event.
KENNETT –Terry Forte knows mushrooms. Her dad, Peter Alonzo Sr., and grandfather,...
Mushroom recipes sought for Fest Cook-off
KENNETT SQUARE — Home cooks do you use mushrooms in a creative way? Are you interested in winning $500 and being named 2014’s Mushroom Appetizer Cook-off Champion? Enter the annual Amateur Mushroom Cook-off now!
The Mushroom Festival will showcase the six finalists as they prepare their appetizers for judging on Saturday, September 6 with the winner being crowned by a panel of celebrity judges.
Family-friendly fests vying for attention
Chadds Ford Days, Mushroom Festival to offer myriad activities this weekend
Not surprisingly, the annual Mushroom Festival will feature all things fungi this weekend.
Two family-friendly festivals are vying for area residents’ attention this weekend, and since they both occur over more than one day, you can even do both.
The Mushroom Festival starts on Friday at 6 p.m. in downtown Kennett Square...
Register now for Mushroom Festival events
Two volunteers share a moment with Fun Gus, the official mascot of The Mushroom festival, during the 2012 event.
KENNETT SQUARE —Virtually everyone knows that the annual Mushroom Festival means food, fun, music and more on the lively streets of the borough.
But did you know that you can register ahead to add to an already exciting experience?
In addition to the main two-day festival, there...
