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Milwaukee’s New Food Festival & Hunger Crisis
Milwaukee’s culinary scene is heating up this fall with the Freshwater Food & Wine Festival, set for September 19-20 at Henry Maier Festival Park — think celebrity chefs, cooking demos, food trucks, wine tastings, and even a Champagne Room. Founder Wes Shaver calls it a “music festival with chefs as headliners,” featuring big names like Dan Jacobs, Adam Pawlak, and Elena Terry, plus a special five-course dinner. Meanwhile, the city’s summer meals program is expanding to feed over 130,000 kids across 130 sites — a vital lifeline in a city where one in four children live in poverty. But not all…
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