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Most restaurants on the pier allow you to sample it in a small cup.
It is also often server in a carved bread bowl. Leave a Comment
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 Tasty sausage, scampi, bread,
mushrooms w/ garlic! by Ewingjr98, 4 more photos
Gilroy is located on Hwy 101, 30 miles south of San Jose and 35 miles north of Monterey. The 29th annual Garlic Festival is July 27, 28 & 29, 2007. The festival is held at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy, and admission is $12. Leave a Comment
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 Ricketts monument & the
only Monterey RR crossing by Ewingjr98,
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Within Monterey you can visit sites that Steinbeck wrote about and areas where Steinbeck actually lived. Most obvious is Cannery Row, the setting for the novel of the same name. Scenes from Tortilla Flat take place in the old Monterey jail next to Colton Hall. He wrote The Pearl at the Monterey County Trust and Savings building while living at the Lara Soto Adobe on nearby Pierce Street. Steinbeck actually set sail for the Sea of Cortez from Fisherman's Wharf.
Along Cannery Row, there are numerous locations from the novel Cannery Row. Doc Ricketts' Lab is only open to the public at certain times each year, but the Wing Chong Market is still in operation and owned by the original Chinese family.
A bar in Old Monterey called Doc Rickett's Lab (yes, his last name is spelled slightly different) has some of the best nightlife in town! Leave a Comment
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Monterey celebrates a week-long Festa Italia/Santa Rosalia Festival in early September each year, with the 2007 event being the 74th consecutive year of the event. During this celebration, besides lots of church, food, and drink, a traditional parade moves from San Carlos Cathedral to the Commercial Wharf to bless the fishing fleet.
This is similar to the Greek and Turkish Festivals which are also held at Custom House Plaza, but the history and character of the Santa Rosalia Festival are evident. While all of these festivals have live music, dance, traditional food, and gifts, the other festivals seem to attract mostly small crowds of quiet tourists, but the Santa Rosalia Festival seemed to bring out all of the boisterous and fun-loving local Italians. Leave a Comment
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We enjoyed a nice Thursday night at the Monterey County Fair in 2007. We arrived late (maybe 8pm), and started with some beer and the free Pam Tillis country concert. Later we ran into some friends and had dinner (spam sushi rolls!) at the Thaiwaiian restaurant's stand. The girls did some rock climbing and won a goldfish at one of the games. On the way out of the fair, we stopped and talked to the guy walking "the world's smallest horse" and got to pet the little two-foot tall equine dwarf.
In the two hours we spent at the fair, we really only saw a small part of the action. We completely missed the farm shows and only saw two of the three stages. While the fair itself is about what I'd expect from a relatively small county fair, the live performances were pitiful... bands like War, the Paul Thorne Band, Pam Tillis, Night Ranger, and the Chicano All Stars were the headline acts each night. Ever heard of more than perhaps one of these bands? I'd only heard of Pam Tillis and I saw her 15 years ago when she was still popular... now she's at the tail end of her career.
The Monterey County Fair is held year in mid-August. Tickets are $8 for adults, and parking around the fairgrounds is $8 to $10. The fairgrounds are near the Monterey airport just north of North Fremont Street. Leave a Comment
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Every Tuesday afternoon there is a street fair downtown. There's produce, restraunts, craftsmen, you name it. Alvarado St (the main street of downtown Monterey) is shut down to traffic. It starts at about 4 and goes until 7 or so.
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The fair is held about the 2nd to 3rd week in August. We went in 1965 and had a good time. Races, rides, food and exhibits.
Current information:
* Take the Casa Verde Exit off Hwy.1, turn East
* Casa Verde dead ends into Fairground Road in 3 blocks
* Turn Right and take the first parking space you find and follow the signs
* Gate on left hand side of road
Adults $7.00
Seniors 65 and older $6.00
Children 6-12 $3.00
5 and under FREE
Hours of operation are:
Tuesday-Thursday noon - 10:00 pm
Friday noon - 11:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 11:00 pm
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In the "market" for great produce? Then check out the Old Monterey Farmer's Market- held year round on Tuesday evenings. I was lucky to have some free time so I was able to meander over to the market. Very sorry that I had to fly home the next morning as the market had a bevy of great produce- berries of all kinds, dozens of varieties of peaches/plums/apricots and lots of lettuce. There were also vendors selling homemade jewelry and soaps along with food vendors hawking sushi, falafel and bbq sandwiches. I even found one on a side street offering gumbo.
Rain or shine (or cold) on Alvarado Street.
Summer: April through October - 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Winter: October through March - 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Leave a Comment Phone: (831) 655-2607
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The origins of the Monterey Jack Cheese has been shrouded in mystery since the early days in Monterey County, no one seems to know who actually made the first Monterey Jack Cheese.
One account attributes Dona Juana Cota the wife of Don Jose Manuel as originating the cheese recipe and making the cheese for David Jacks from the adobe on Rancho Los Laurelles, Carmel Valley. The cheese was called at that time "Caso del Pais," or cheese of the country.
The name is credited to David Jacks- a Monterey County dairyman who would sell his creamy white cheese to grocers in San Francisco. The San Francisco merchants would refer to the cheese as Jack's Monterey Cheese and the name later evolved to Monterey Jack Cheese.
There are alternative explanations for the cheese's origins -- such as that the cheese was first made using a "jack" (or press). Leave a Comment
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