Taste of the Beach
Foodie experience unique to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Held just once a year, this event highlights local culinary arts and showcases the Outer Banks as a a culinary destination.

March 5 - 8, 2009

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• All about Crabs
  Tour includes informative session with a native crabber, tours of waterways and harbors, a crabpot demonstration and facts galore about soft shell crabs.
  Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using local crabs. Add a cooking demonstration!
• All about Shrimp
  Learn what it takes to bring shrimp to shore and visit with a local waterman. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using local shrimp. Add a cooking demonstration!
• All about Oysters
  Tour includes informative session about indigenous oysters and local Oyster Reef Preservation efforts. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using local oysters. Add a cooking demonstration!
• All about Clams
  Tour includes informative session about clams and local clamming. Rake for clams in season. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using local clams. Add a cooking demonstration!
• All about Fishing
  Pier, Offshore, In-shore, Surf - Learn the basic differences, the best way to catch your favorite fish and take home tips on how to clean what you’ve caught. Add a fishing excursion. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using local fish. Add a cooking demonstration!
• Honey, Please!
  Tour includes informative session with a local beekeeper. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using local honey. Add a cooking demonstration!
• Wild Foods
  A series of lectures and tastings considering the art of eating indigenously. Lecture and tour includes information about edibles in nature. Fishing, hunting and gathering are all discussed. Vegetarian Tours are also available.
• Flora as Food
  Using edible flowers in your daily menu. Tour includes visit to Elizabethan Gardens and lectures about indigenous flowers and culinary herbs.
• Organic Farming
  Learn what makes a farm organic. Visit a local farm and taste seasonal produce. Add an entire meal prepared with organic ingredients.
• Say Cheese!
  Lecture includes informative session with a local cheese expert. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using cheese. Add a cooking demonstration!
• Soy Beans
  Visit a soy bean farm and learn all about this vegetable now so vital to North Carolina’s agricultural development. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using soy. Add a cooking demonstration!
• Historic Foods of the Outer Banks
  A historic examination of food on the Outer Banks from the Colonists’ time until the present. The culinary timeline explores indigenous foods with particular emphasis on the menu and daily diet of early colonists. May include a tour of Roanoke Island Festival Park or a visit to The Lost Colony.
• Slow Foods
  Lecture offers local perspectives on the Slow Foods movement. Tastings possible, including an entire meal created using indigenous foods. Add a cooking demonstration!
• Local Micro-Brewery
  Tour a brew making facility (or two!), Tastings possible. Include an entire meal created using handcrafted beer or try a menu paired with local brew.
• Local Winery
  Tour a winery (or two!). Learn about the local Scuppernong grape, the first grape used to make wine in the new America. Tastings possible. Lunch or dinner may be included – try a menu paired with local wine!
• Wine University
  Private or group lectures, lessons, tastings. Regional flights available as are varietals. Wine services are not limited to local wines.
• BBQ Baby
  Tour local smoking and cooking venues. Taste real Eastern North Carolina BBQ.