November 23, 2024
AMERICAN FOLK FESTIVAL

Taste of Maine tent at Folk Festival plans state’s best victuals

BANGOR – Whether you want to satisfy your sweet tooth or a hankering for fiery food, or are in search of healthful organic fare – all with a Maine twist – the American Folk Festival’s Taste of Maine tent is the place for you.

Heather McCarthy, the festival’s executive director, said the tent featuring Maine-made soups and chowder, jellies and mustards, candies and an array of other delicacies was added this year at the request of attendees from previous festivals.

The products that will be available during this year’s festival, set for Aug. 24-26 at Bangor Waterfront, will be the packaged to take home to enjoy later, so as not to compete with the festival’s food vendors, she said.

Among the Mainers and the products they will feature are:

Michelle Fitch, Jonesport, Bandana Bill’s Blazing Sauces, organic fruit-based sauces; David Jones, Bangor, Fieldstone Farms Inc., fruit and berry spreads; Roy Guzman, Portland, Guzman’s Gourmet Salsa, gourmet salsa, mustard, gift sets; David and Janet Bernard, Cornville, Nelson’s Candies, fudge, peanut brittle, gourmet popcorn; Waite Maclin, Portland, Pastor Chuck Orchards, organic apple butter, apple sauce, baseball hats; Penobscot Bay Soup Co., Rockland, prepackaged fresh soups and chowders; Clayton Lank, Lubec, Quoddy Mist sea salt, seafood seasoning blends, sea vegetable blended sea salts; Karen Raye, Eastport, Raye’s Mustard Mill, full line of award-winning mustards; Robin Jenkins, Fort Fairfield, Robin’s Chocolate Sauce, flavored chocolate sauces; Bethany Foss, Machias, The Blue Bird, blueberry vinaigrette; Daniel Stevens, W.O. Hesperus Co., Portland, gourmet hot sauce, fiery foods, gift packs; and Everett and Lee Worcester, Orneville, Worcester’s Wild Blueberries, blueberry jam, jelly, syrup, honey, fresh blueberries.


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