Sugar on Snow (1951); Tri-Tip Sandwich (1990)

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   FOOD FESTIVALS (1997) by Barbara Carlson is a vastly superior book to FOOD FESTIVALS USA (2002).  Yes, the latter has a recipe for each festival and I suppose that was the selling point, but who needs recipes anymore when it's all on the web?
   FOOD FESTIVALS includes three New York City festivals that the newer book just couldn't find: Ninth Avenue International Food Festival, West Indian-American Carnival, and Feast of San Gennaro.  There is a short glossary, a selected bibliography, a cook-offs and recipe contents index, a date index, a food type index, and a general index.  I'll try to antedate everything (if I haven't already), but here's the glossary:

   Aebelskiver; Andouille; Beef on Weck (pronounced wick); Blooming Onions; Booya; Boudin; Bratwurst; Brunswick Stew; Buffalo Chicken Wings; Burgoo; Burrito; Cheese Curds, Fried; Chiles Rellenos; Chitlins; Chorizo; Crawfish; Dirty Rice; Enchiladas; Etouffee; Fajitas; Fried Pie; Fry Bread; Funnel Cake; Geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck); Gordita; Grits; Gumbo; Gyros; Hush Puppies; Indian Tacos; Jambalaya; Jerk Chicken; Kielbasa; Kolache; Lefse; Linguic; Lutefisk; Mayhaw; Pemmican; Pierogi; Po' Boy; Quahog; Ramp; Red-eye Gravy; Rocky Mountain Oyster; Rotis; Sauce Piquante; Snitz; Sonker; Spiedie; Steamers; ...  (Last two items below--ed.)

Pg. 396:
   _Sugar on Snow:_  A taffy-like confection made by pouring maple syrup onto snow after the sap has been boiled past the syrup stage.  A standard at "sugaring" festivals when maples are tapped.  See Vermont Maple Festival, St. Albans, VT.
   _Tri-Tip Sandwich:_  A triangular cut of sirloin tip, seasoned and roasted over high heat, eaten as a sandwich.  Popular festival fare in central California.  See Big Hat Festival, Clovis, CA.

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SUGAR ON SNOW

   12 August 1951, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 95:
   The annual Maple Sugar on Snow Party is scheduled for Aug. 22 at Barton;...

   8 May 1955, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. XX9:
_VERMONT_
(...)
_Sugar on Snow Parties:_  Morgan, July 16; Canaan, Aug. 1-6; Barton Village (on the Common), Aug. 11.

   6 April 1958, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. X19:
   Other program events include demonstrations of syrup and sugar making, maple creaming and sugar on snow.

   31 January 1965, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. BR26:
   _Books for Younger Readers_
SUGAR ON SNOW.  By Nancy Dingman Watson.  Illustrated by Aldren A. Watson.  43 pp. New York: The Viking Press.  $3.  For Ages 3 to 6.
   TWO things are needed if Cammie is to have a sugar on snow party for her birthday: The sap ("when it's cold from winter and sweet from spring") has to be running in the maples, and there has to be a new fallen cover of snow.

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TRI-TIP SANDWICH

   "Tri-tip sandwich" is not in John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD AND DRINK (1999).  No hits on the NEW YORK TIMES database?!
   There are 80 hits on the Dow Jones database.  All of the earliest hits are from the LOS ANGELES TIMES, starting with 7-19-1990.  Unfortunately, full text for that is not available.  (What a tease!--ed.)