The latest issue of New England’s Yankee Magazine (March/April 2016) features a Best Food Festivals guide in which contributor Christie Matheson highlights 20 of the best food festivals throughout the region, from pancake breakfasts and bean dinners, to chowder cook-offs and festivals dedicated to a single food like whoopie pies and cranberries.

Here is the complete list of the culinary celebrations featured in the article:

Boothbay Harbor Fishermen’s Festival – Boothbay Harbor, ME – April 22-24
Vermont Maple Festival – St. Albans, VT – April 22-24
Nantucket Wine Festival – Nantucket, MA – May 18-22
Chowder Festival – Portsmouth, NH – June 4
The Maine Whoopie Pie Festival – Dover-Foxcroft, ME – June 25
Vermont Cheesemakers Festival – Shelburne, VT – July 17
New England Food Truck Festival – West Springfield, MA – July 23-24
Maine Lobster Festival – Rockland, ME – August 3-7
Wild Blueberry Festival – Machias, ME – August 19-20
Corn Festival – Norwell, MA – September 17-18
Eat X NE – Burlington, VT – September 17-18
Newport Wine & Food Festival – Newport, RI – September 23-25
What the Fluff? – Sommerville, MA – September 24
Apple Harvest Festival – Southington, CT – September 30-October 2 & October 7-9
Cranberry Festival – Nantucket, MA – October 8
Martha’s Vineyard Food & Wine Festival – October 13-16
Wellfleet Oysterfest – Wellfleet, MA – October 15-16
Harvest on the Harbor – Portland, ME – October 19-23
Kenyon’s Grist Mill Clam Cakes & Chowder Festival – West Kingston, RI – October 22-23
Cider Days – Franklin County, MA – November 5-6

For the full story, pick up a copy of the March/April 2016 edition of Yankee Magazine or visit www.yankeemagazine.com.