Annual Summer Veggie Fest in Naperville Illinois
International Food, Guest Speakers, Free Stuff, and Live Music
Aug 12, 2009
Veggie Fest in Naperville, a suburb of Chicago, occurs annually with 2009 marking its fourth year celebrating vegetarianism and promoting healthy lifestyles. Visitors to Veggie Fest will discover numerous outdoor booths set up to educate and motivate those interested in vegetarian, vegan, raw, organic food, while tempting many with free yoga classes, unique massages, and health check-ups.
Veggie Fest Location
Drivers can most easily find Veggie Fest on the corner of Naperville and Warrenville Roads next to the Science of Spirituality Meditation Center, a non-profit organization that focuses on meditation and regularly provides vegetarian cooking classes. A spacious parking lot with helpful attendants offers free and safe parking.
Veggie Fest is an Informative Family Summer Outing
The festival is for everyone and free to enter with an atmosphere that is especially inviting to families and parents who would like to teach children about vegetarian eating. A children's tent offers face painting and nearby Veggie Fest Street Theatre. Visitors should keep in mind that while some tables offer free morsels of food, the international food court requires tickets purchased at a stand.
In no way intended to push vegetarianism on people, Veggie Fest exists simply to unite those who follow the lifestyle and for those who are interested in learning about the benefits of eating vegetarian. A greener and more organic lifestyle is slowly becoming à la mode in the U.S as more people aim to live more environmentally friendly and realize the health benefits associated with eating certain foods.
What's Going On at Veggie Fest
Visitors to the Fest are encouraged to give blood in the van parked near the entrance, but can enter for free. It's hard to miss the booths boasting drawings for prizes and selling t-shirts at the front. Brochures and announcement boards signal visitors to a variety of speakers, live music groups, cooking demonstrations and their times.
The refreshingly global feel to Veggie Fest gives the vegetarian lifestyle growing credibility. Green cuisine is spreading and Veggie Fest does a thorough job in showing visitors that it's easy and delicious to eat vegetarian, while introducing vegan, organic and raw food options as well. Several chefs offer cooking demonstrations from Vegan Sushi and A Taste of Germany to Veggie Power Burgers and Indian Delights.
For those willing to spend a little more money, the food court offers a tantalizing array of Mexican, Asian, and European vegetarian dishes. Signposts with pictures of famous vegetarians across time like, Albert Einstein, Pythagoras, Leonardo DaVinci, and Thomas Edison provide clever veggie quotes with which harrassed vegetarians can retaliate when needed.
Even non-vegetarians can find something appealing at the Fest. Not every tent is focused on food, but many aim to showcase both a physically and mentally healthy lifestyle. Massage booths, free yoga classes, and feng shui paraphenalia harmoniously punctuate the veggie food vibe.
Stay in Touch with Veggie Fest Online
Although Veggie Fest is still young and only a two day summer event, it has attracted many followers over its past four festivals. An easy way to keep up to date with vegetarian recipes, news, other nearby events, and information on next year's Fest, is to become a friend online with Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter.
Veggie Fest in Naperville is not to be missed for those living the vegetarian lifestyle, nor for those who have never tried raw food, but have always been curious.
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