Kentucky Proud Art Fair offers food and fun for the whole family

Special to KAN Online

Good Kentucky art, good Kentucky music and good Kentucky Proud food are on the menu at the first Kentucky Proud Art Fair June 21 at Good Foods Market & Café on Southland Drive in Lexington.

Local artists will be on hand to display and sell their art. Local musicians will offer live music. Kentucky Proud producers will have burgers, hot dogs and Italian sausages on the grill in honor of Slow Food Bluegrass. Inside, the Café will serve its signature homemade fresh squeezed lemonade, and other cold, fresh beverages. Children will enjoy special activities just for them, including complimentary face painting.

The hot buffet will also pay special tribute to Slow Food Bluegrass. The lunch and dinner menu will offer the freshest ingredients brought to the kitchen by local farmers.

Slow Food Bluegrass is a Kentucky convivium of Slow Food International. Slow Food Bluegrass is a food education group dedicated to promoting growers and producers of good, clean, and fair food products throughout the Bluegrass region. In partnership with related nonprofit organizations, state government agencies, and local colleges and universities, it raises awareness of food-related issues that present challenges to the quality of Kentucky life. For local information and upcoming events, visit http://slowfoodbluegrass.com/. For general information about the Slow Food Movement, visit http://www.slowfoodusa.org/.

Good Foods Co-op is a locally owned cooperative business with two locations in Lexington — Good Foods Market & Café on Southland Drive and Good Foods Chapter 2, a café located inside the downtown Lexington Public Library. It has served the Lexington community since 1972.