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Tofu Festival Venue: Open air lot at 237 S. San Pedro Street, (between Second and Third Streets) in downtown Los Angeles Time/Date: Saturday, August 12th, 11 am - 6 pm. Sunday, August 13th, 11 am - 4 pm Admissions: $1.00 Website: http://www.tofufest.org As one of the featured events on the Democratic National Convention calendar, the Fifth Annual Los Angeles Tofu Festival is one of the major community celebrations in Los Angeles. The 1999 Festival was an overwhelming success with close to 30,000 guests converging in Little Tokyo. The Festival is a multicultural celebration of food experiences, with recipes from tofu enchiladas to tofu cheesecake. This unique fund raising festival is produced by Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC), featuring the culinary and health benefits of tofu. Celebrity co-chairs are Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, co-chefs and co-owners of Border Grill, Santa Monica and Las Vegas and Ciudad, downtown Los Angeles. No longer just an Asian cuisine mainstay, tofu is fast becoming a cross-cultural super food, packed with antioxidants, protein and calcium. The festival will feature tasty offerings from a variety of ethnic cuisines including Mexican, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai and American all of which will tempt the taste buds of festival goers. In addition to food booths, an integral part of the Festival will be the Wellness Information Booths, which will be set up to address current health-related concerns and provide various free medical screening. This year, a health forum is added featuring a nutritionist, Shiatsu therapist teaching self-message technique, Pilates demonstration and more. An expansion area on San Pedro Street is also being planned for a Fitness and Health Festival. Entertainment will feature a broad range of musical talent from children's performers to the ever popular sounds of the Taiko (traditional Japanese drums). Cooking demonstrations will feature some of Southern California's most talented chefs and nutrition experts on soy. The Children's Pavilion will provide an area for children to enjoy arts and crafts, as well as games and entertainment. The festival will feature a "teddy bear clinic" and photo opportunities with Pokemon character. The dates are Saturday and Sunday, August 12th and 13th. The Tofu Festival will begin at 11:00 a.m. and continue to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday and 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday. Admissions is $1.00. The location is at the open air lot at 237 S. San Pedro Street, (between Second and Third Streets) in downtown Los Angeles. For more informaton, please visit http://www.tofufest.org.
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