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Oh, yes, there will be garlic, and a whole lot more

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The annual Gilroy Garlic Festival is in its fourth decade and is expected to draw about 100,000 people to this small farm community during the July 23-25 weekend. At heart, the festival will be a semicampy tribute to the stinking rose, part country fair -- a Miss Gilroy Garlic will be crowned -- and part embrace of pop culture with a garlic cook-off among local contestants. A Garlic Showdown will be emceed by Fabio Viviani of Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’ and Toluca Lake’s Firenze Osteria restaurant. In the contest, four Bay Area chefs will have two hours to prepare full meals using a mystery ingredient. And garlic, of course.

Yet there’s more to Gilroy than the annual garlic throwdown. Read on.

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