Festival participants could buy beer-marinated buffalo bratwurst at one booth and grilled Mahi and shrimp at another.
They could tap their feet to jazz tunes played by homegrown musician Steve Gray and rock to the raucous “L.A. Guns.”
A Taste of Colorado in downtown Denver on Saturday offered Colorado cuisine, artwork and entertainment under a cloudy sky. And it delivered the exotic.
At the “Happiness Africa” booth, Coloradans could buy male and female Masai walking sticks, meant to offer good luck to newlyweds as they begin their walk through life.
U.S. Marine Preston Rhyne, 22, loudly beckoned people to an all-American favorite, corn on the cob dipped in butter.
“This is the biggest and baddest cob in town,” Rhyne yelled. “We don’t got 6 inches. We don’t got 8 inches. We got 9 inches of hot-buttered cob.”
He said the profits would help pay for the Marine Corps Ball in November at Buckley Air Force Base.
Also for sale: a 3-foot gargoyle sculpture, Native American flutes, hemp pops, chocolate frozen cheesecake on a stick, Bavarian cream funnel cakes, soy wax candles, Himalayan-styled dresses, catfish and art of Elvis Presley, John Elway and buccaneer Jack Sparrow.
