There was no shortage of mouths to feed in Forsyth Park on Sunday afternoon during the 24th annual Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival.
The annual events draws thousands, and hungry festival-goers packed the park’s north end for hours on Sunday, sampling meats, dairy, soups, desserts, drinks and other delicacies.
“It seems to get a little bigger each year,” said Brian Markowitz, president of Savannah's Congregation Mickve Israel, which hosts the festival each year. “It’s such a great event. We get people from all walks of life to come and enjoy it.”
Some of the more popular food items, such as barbecue brisket, sold out just a couple hours into the festival.
That was the case for the booth manned by Teresa Victor. She and fellow volunteers sold brisket, cholent and stuffed cabbage. The brisket, she said, was all gone by 1:30 p.m., two and a half hours into the festival.
“Business has been good all day long,” she said. “Gorgeous weather, great people — happy people... We got so lucky that (Hurricane) Sandy is not visiting.”
Read more in Monday’s Savannah Morning News.
-Dash Coleman