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Ohio Pawpaw Festival
Festival
A celebration of North America's largest native edible fruit, an unusual custard-like berry most people have never tasted.
12 SEP
Albany, Ohio, United States
The pawpaw is North America's largest native edible fruit — a custard-like berry with a flavour often compared to a cross between banana and mango — yet it remains genuinely obscure outside a small, devoted following, largely because its short shelf life makes it impractical for commercial sale.
This festival, held in the pawpaw's native Appalachian range, exists specifically to introduce people to a fruit most Americans have never encountered, with tastings, a pawpaw-eating contest and cooking demonstrations built entirely around this one unusual native crop.
Highlights
- ✓North America's largest native edible fruit
- ✓Pawpaw-eating contest
Getting In
🎟️Ticket required
Some recipe photos courtesy of Openverse and Wikimedia Commons contributors, used under Creative Commons licenses.