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Crowd turns out to celebrate all things tomato at fruitful Feastival

View Comments Farm-fresh food. A compelling cause. Live music. And tomatoes, lots of tomatoes, in varied shapes, sizes and colors. All these factors combined for a fruitful 2021 Tomato Feastival on June 6 at the Goodwood Museum & Gardens. “It was just an amazing turnout,” said Kate Wasson, a board member of the Red Hills Small Farm Alliance and Feastival planner. “We were hoping for 500 people and when I saw the line wrapped around for blocks I couldn’t wrap my head around it. It was a wonderful, wonderful event.” Early estimates project there were at least 1,100 attendees at the event, a longtime tradition of  the Red Hills Small Farm Alliance, a nonprofit supporting our local farming community.

Hats off to Tallahassee s women in the restaurant business

Women are certainly changing the dynamics of the hospitality industry locally and globally, but often chefs and restaurateurs don’t receive the recognition of their male counterparts and still face challenges in navigating the culinary world. There are still a lot of uphill challenges that females face in a male-dominated industry, said Justine May, owner of the Railroad Square Craft House. Sometimes I have to put my foot down harder and faster than a man in the same position. It’s a very male-dominated business.” May finds that, even today, “people assume I married into this business or am dating someone who’s in the business. The stereotype still lingers, even with women.”

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