Pungent offerings draw hundreds to Elkins
ELKINS, W.Va. — The unmistakable aroma of ramps filled downtown Elkins Saturday as hundreds of people enjoyed the sixth annual Ramps & Rail Festival.
Festival Director Harold Elbon said one of the reasons the festival was created was to allow non-profit and for-profit groups to prepare ramp dishes to sell to the public at a modest profit to help fund their respective projects.
“We encourage any vendors who want to come out to do so,” Elbon said. “It’s a great opportunity for them to get everything in order for festival season.
“It’s been a long winter and people get tired of it,” he added. “We try to give them a festival for them to enjoy as a sort of welcome to nicer weather.”
The festival featured 34 craft vendors and 20 food vendors at the Elkins Depot Town Square, specializing in ramp-based menus. Popular food items included Kiwanis International ramp burgers, ramp-a-roni rolls prepared by Davis & Elkins College Dining Services Executive Chef Melanie Campbell and her students, and ramp soup and cornbread offered by Elkins ON TRAC.
Other vendors included El Gran Sabor, which offered a ramp spin on a traditional Venezuelan dish with ramp cachapas, and the Riverside School Association, which offered their famous “wramp-wraps.” Others offered pulled pork, ramp and sausage risotto, ramp salsa, ramp butter and many other creative-and tasty-offerings…
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