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Crazy about kumquats
By Times Staff Writer
Published January 27, 2005
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[Times photo: Lance A. Rothstein 2004]
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The Dade City area of Pasco County is the nation's largest producer of the sweet/sour little citrus fruit, the kumquat. The area celebrates a bumper crop Saturday with the annual Kumquat Festival.
In addition to vendors selling all sorts of kumquat foodstuffs, you'll find entertainment, arts and crafts, a 5K run, a 5K and 10K walk, vintage cars and lots more. The free festival is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday on U.S. 301 Seventh Street in downtown Dade City. (352) 567-3769 or www.kumquatfestival.com
Again this year, TV personality Roger Swain, a former host of the PBS show Victory Garden and the self-proclaimed "champion of the kumquat," will come from his home in New Hampshire to attend the festival. He will give a lecture at 6:30 p.m. today at the CARES Crescent Enrichment Center, 13906 Fifth St. Admission is $10 and is limited to 300.
And the Kumquat Growers packinghouse, 31647 Gude Road, in St. Joseph, will host a prefestival open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday showing methods of cleaning, packing and shipping kumquats, plus kumquat cooking and the new kumquat blossom honey, produced only in St. Joseph.
Times food editor Janet K. Keeler wrote about kumquats in the Taste section Wednesday. To see that story, go to www.sptimes.com/Taste.shtml For recipes and more information on kumquats, see www.kumquatgrowers.com
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