Taste of Cambridge will return to the streets of Downtown Cambridge for its 16th year on Saturday, October 12, 2024, from 12 p.m. -- 6 p.m. Experience the best of Eastern Shore cuisine with Cambridge Main Street’s premier community street festival. Each year, Taste of Cambridge brings hundreds of visitors from across the region to Downtown Cambridge.
GENERAL ADMISSION:
Tickets will include sampling of each Taste of Cambridge Cook-Off entry. Each ticket holder will be given a ballot to cast their vote for the coveted "People’s Choice Award.”
This year’s Cook-Off Categories are: Crab Cake, Crab Soup, Shore Fare (any dish containing ingredients that can be caught or grown on the Eastern Shore), and Dessert.
TICKET PRICES:
$50.00 Advance Tickets; $65.00 at event (NOTE: Only ticket holders will be able to taste Cook-Off samples)
FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES:
Cook-Off Contest
Live music and other community performances
Vendor Market
Kids Zone
Face Painting, Inflatables and MORE …
Meet Our Judges
While Taste of Cambridge ticket holders have the opportunity to cast their ballots for the "People's Choice Award," Cambridge Main Street has recruited some area celebrities to be judges for the "Best Of Awards," which are given for each category.
Laurie Forster, The Wine Coach, is an expert in all things wine, as well as food and wine pairings.
Laurie is one of America’s leading wine experts and author of the award-winning book The Sipping Point: A Crash Course in Wine. Laurie is a Certified Sommelier, National Speaker and TV personality who is not afraid to tell you her first wine came from a box. Her edgy approach to demystifying wine caught the eye of major networks and led her to guest appearances on The Dr Oz Show, FOX Morning News, Martha Stewart Living Today and ABC News at Noon.
Laurie regularly speaks across the country where she edutains a client list that includes MetLife, Discovery Channel, Microsoft, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, LG Electronics, National Association of Catering Executives, American Cancer Society and McCormick & Company to name a few. Laurie has performed her comedic wine tasting at locations nationwide including Carolines on Broadway, DC IMPROV, Caesars Atlantic City and as a headliner for the HBO Women in Comedy Festival.
Forster’s mobile application “The Wine Coach” was listed as one of the Top 8 Wine Apps in Wine Enthusiast. A former software sales executive, Laurie’s wine career began in Manhattan where she studied with the American Sommelier Association to obtain her certificate in Viticulture and Vinification. Laurie has since earned an Advanced Certificate with Merit from the Wine & Spirits Education Trust (WSET). She has also trained with the Court of Master Sommeliers and the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley.
Cambridge Main Street is thrilled to have Laurie join the Taste of Cambridge Judges Tent this year!
Tami Weber, Broadcast Journalist, WBOC TV 16, is an Emmy Award winning journalist who comes to WBOC with a wealth of knowledge and over a decade of experience in both radio and television news. Tami began her broadcast journalism career in college after taking a news writing course and falling in love with storytelling. She started in radio news working as the weekend morning drive anchor and weekday reporter at WRNR Talk Radio in Martinsburg, WV. After graduating from Shepherd College, Tami was hired at a competing station, WEPM-AM/WKMZ-FM and eventually was promoted to News Director before making the switch to television. Tami worked as a reporter, producer, videographer and main evening anchor at WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, MD until she moved to South Carolina. There, Tami was part of a start-up of what is now FOX Carolina in Greenville, SC. Tami worked primarily as an Investigative Reporter and fill-in anchor, earning the distinction of South Carolina Reporter of the Year in 2005 as well as numerous Emmy awards and nominations. Tami has also received accolades for her journalistic work from the Associated Press Broadcasters Association in MD, WV and SC, and has been honored with a Women in Communications MATRIX Award and National Headliner Award.
Tami was born in Washington, DC and raised in Prince Georges County, MD. She lives in Salisbury with her husband, Bob, daughter Michaela, and twin boys Thomas and Mac. When not working to bring the latest news to Delmarva, Tami can be found camping, at the beach, cooking over an open fire, or spending time with friends and family. Tami's parents live in Ocean Pines and her sister lives in Salisbury. She also has a brother who lives in Frederick, but has a summer home in Ocean Pines.
Tami is active with Rotary of Wicomico County, a 2017 alumni of Shore Leadership, and volunteers with both the Talbot Figure Skating Club and Eastern Shore Hockey Association.
Tami grew up spending her summers in Ocean City and is thrilled to call Delmarva her home.
Cambridge Main Street is so excited to have Tami in the Judges Tent for this year's Taste of Cambridge!