2008 Major Event Sponsors
2008 Guest Judges
Rowan Jacobsen will be a guest judge at the 2008 Maine Oyster Festival. Rowan will be signing his books at the festival.Rowan Jacobsen writes about food, the environment, and the intersection of the two. His work has appeared in The Art of Eating, The New York Times, Saveur, NPR.org, and elsewhere. He is also the author of Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. For A Geography of Oysters,
he spent a year traveling the country and sampling its oysters. He eats
oysters regularly, despite the challenge of living in rural Vermont,
and also organizes private oyster tastings.
Rachael Forrest will be a guest judge at the 2008 Maine Oyster Festival. Rachel Forrest is a former restaurant owner, world traveler and food
and dining editor for Seacoast Media Group. Her column appears
Wednesdays in Go & Do. Her restaurant review column, Dining Out,
appears Thursdays in Spotlight.