10 of Europe’s best under-the-radar food festivals

Last Sunday’s Observer magazine listed 10 food festivals across Europe. As ever, if you go, we’ll be happy to publish a report. Personally, the Fête des Legumes Oubliés would be my preference. But then there’s the Festa della Zucca, closer to home, and the Piment d’Espelette Festival in France, which we’ve blogged about before. The one I really want to go to, not mentioned by The Observer, is the Fiesta de la Alubia in Tolosa. I can’t find much about it now, but I vividly remember from my most recent trip to Gipuzkoa the potential of being inducted as a Knight of the Alubia. That appeals. As do the beans, among the finest known to humanity.