A DISCOUNT TICKET... to an event you really wanted to attend, even at full price? It can be like removing the papery skin from a garlic clove in one swift peel. That's quite the satisfying feeling, as any garlic maven knows, and finding a discount ticket to the famous Gilroy Garlic Festival, which is turning 40 in 2018, has that same vibe. But the vibes grow even stronger when you learn this: Should you buy that discount ticket online by June 25, 2018 — that's about a month or so before the festival, which runs from July 27 through 29 — you'll "... be entered for a chance to...
MEET YOUR FAVORITE CELEBRITY CHEF!" That means that, if you win, you could say hello to Iron Chef Michael Symon — that's on the Sunday of the festival — Olympic great Brian Boitano — he'll be there on Saturday — or Shaun O'Neale, the season 7 winner of "MasterChef" (yep, he'll be festing on Friday). Who you meet will depend upon the day you do the fest. But meeting celebs isn't the only possibly cool thing about buying your ticket early and a discount. There's a...
"FUN GARLIC GOODIE BAG," too, for the winner of the raffle. As if that doesn't make your heart glow as warmly as a clove of garlic, you'll also get two seats at the Challenge Butter Cook-off Stage. An adult one-day discount admission? It's $18. Buy quickly, as quickly as a slip of papery skin peels off a clove, and keep those garlic-chopping fingers crossed that you're the victor.
