Texas Rice Festival

The Texas Rice Festival is an annual harvest celebration held the first weekend of October honoring rice farming, which is a major economic activity in the region of Southeast Texas around the town of Winnie, Texas. The first Texas Rice Festival was held in downtown Winnie in 1969. The event is now a week-long event held in Winnie-Stowell park which has a permanent grandstand which was built for the event. This event is separate and unrelated to the International Rice Festival held in Crowley, Louisiana.

The festival includes a carnival, parades, livestock show, open horse show, BBQ cookoff, nightly street dances, antique car show, cooking contest, fiddling contest, rice threshing demonstration, pageants, karaoke, and features food made with rice and featuring the flavors of the Cajun culture which is strong in the area. Typical fare includes rice balls, gumbo, ettouffe, pistolettes, blooming onions, crab balls, boudain balls and many other delicacies. [ [http://texasricefestival.org/content/view/4/1/ Texas Rice Festival - The Texas Rice Festival ] ] Fact|date=September 2007

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