Asparagus. Brussels sprouts. Green onions. Artichokes. These are not ingredients to a delicious salad, rather a beautiful floral arrangement. Dee Yeager, master floral designer, showed guests in the Flower and Garden Pavilion atrium how they could make a beautiful, monochromatic display using some non-traditional elements. To start arranging, Dee used a floral block by Oasis…
Who says wine has to be snobby? Our wine education keeps it real with a class on pairing fair food with wine. According to sommelier and class teacher Traci Dutton, the L.A. County Fair has some of the best fair food in the country. According to her, if it was a restaurant it would have…
We’ve got a lot of school pride that’s showing. What better way to celebrate your alma mater than a day at the Fair? We don’t think there is any, so each year we host college days for different schools in the area. Today we have the good folks from the University of La Verne (hence…
Things are getting pretty international over at Culinary Styles this weekend. Competitors battled to be top in the categories of Tamale, Eggroll, Tabouleh and Hummus. The spread was beautiful and the judges had their work cut out for them. Here’s the winners and what they made: Hummus: Peggy Linberg of Upland Tabouleh: Heather Moloian of…
Clippety Clop. Clippety Clop. You probably already know we’ve got horses here at the Fair… the racing kind that run around at Fairplex Park. But we’ve also got a set of horses that are here purely for the delight of fair guests. The Budweiser Clydesdales are making their 26th Fair appearance and are helping us…
Bust out your peg leg and swab the deck, Talk Like a Pirate Day is tomorrow, Sept. 19. And even though the Fair is closed on the actual day, you can begin celebrating today (and the rest of the week!) at Pets Ahoy!–our very own pirate and pet adventure land. Unleash your inner pirate at…
Here’s a photo essay by me on my some of my favorite things a the Fair. What are yours? Tell us and you could win some Fair swag!
We’re about half way through the Fair and we could not be more excited about the generosity of our guests! Our canned food and book drives are kicking booty thanks to you guys. Book drive Thursdays, our first ever, have already received 9,748 books to be given away to local charities. Amazing! This is our…
Have you ever wondered what mimes dream about? Striped shirts? Bowler hats? Suspenders? Well, you’d be wrong. Apparently mimes dream about crazy acrobatics and dance moves. At the Dream World Cirque Show, we are first introduced to our friend the charming mime before the show truly starts. He comes out to the audience and does…
The livestock won’t be all that’s on display at the Fair this weekend. Guys will be showing off fresh chops thanks to master barbers from Wahl. Guys can get FREE facial hair trims, shaves and grooming tips thanks to a 30-foot mobile barbershop at the Fair, here through Sunday. The effort is part of a nationwide…
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