Good morning and welcome to Food Thought with Pixie Burmister. And now here's Pixie. And here I am with four ambassadors. Now I kind of look to see if they had their limo drivers bring them up this morning.
I know they had some drivers, but yes, our 2026 Palisade Peach Festival ambassadors are here. Lovely young women, young ladies, I might say. And we've been learning a lot about all you girls, it seems like you're headed toward good futures. You've got good goals in mind.
But just to kind of remind us, first of all, somebody know where you would go for more information and how to get tickets. I would go to the Palisade Peach Festival dot com or just search Palisade Peach Festival and you'll find the website. Yes, Palisade Peach Fest dot com. Yeah, yeah.
And there's a wonderful schedule. You could even, you know, we're looking always for more volunteers. Because as you girls know, especially you learn because you've been down there, you know how many volunteers it takes to put on a peach festival. And you girls are, the rest of you have probably been learning.
Like, oh wow, I never had no idea. But we were talking about some of the things that sounds so much fun. One that you could think of. And that I could think of in particular is probably going to be earlier.
I said the peach contest and as well as the live music. I know the vendors were mentioned as well, but I'm really excited for the chef's showdown with the different peaches. And when is that? And Friday night, I think.
Yes, I would try to be on the 21st, which will be our first day of the official festival. And the throw down. How long? I mean, is that, are they given a time limit or what?
Yes, so it will last 30 minutes between the chefs. Oh, yes, 30 minutes. We think that's going to be. And the star of the dish, what must all dishes have in them Lauren?
See, we don't know what these guys are going to, well, Lindsay and Matt, the chefs that will be competing. They don't know what they're going to do. That's a really fun part. But there's one rule.
And do you know what the rule is? They must have peaches. Yes. So that's why I always say, well, we will divulge one thing that we know you have to do.
And one ingredient you have to include in yours and peaches. And there's so many things you can do with peaches. What's another special fun thing for you? Oh, and peach cuisine, by the way.
Is that just on that Friday night throw down? We have peach, we have chefs all day Saturday from 10 30 to 3 30 every hour on the hour. Up on stage doing a peach dish, you get to taste it while you watch and put it together. You get to taste it, you get the recipe, and you have to ask them questions because they all have such fun stories to tell about how they became a chef.
And there's even some romance in a couple of them too, which is awfully fun. Okay, so Eva, what about the peach festival? One thing that we were talking about that you thought sounded like it could be fun. I'm pretty excited for the paddleboard racing too.
I've got younger cousins and younger siblings and they would go for that for sure. It's called paddleboard, paddle for peaches. That has become so fun and you know, it kind of gives you a little chance to cool off too. And also we have this big for kids.
We have Jake's Jungle for Kids with all kinds of things to do and little animals. But now there's also another, they call it a certain type of playground for the kids. Do any of you know what that is called? Do you know?
I'm not sure. Okay. It's called an inflatable playground. Sorry.
It's called an inflatable playground. You can climb on it. It has slides you can go down and it's very kid friendly. So that's, see, as we talk along, you have to really check out that website.
And where was that website, Eva? The palisadepeachfest.com. Very good. And now, hiding over there is Bella.
Get up there close. What is one of the things that you're going to make sure that you're going to take part in? I don't really know. I might try and do the paddleboarding race with the littles.
I think that's appealing, isn't it? Because we know, oh, let's face it. August is warm. I'm using that term.
Hot. Let's say it will be hot, probably. That's a nice way to cool off. And by the way, why don't everybody know there's going to be plenty of water around to hydrate, because it's so important.
And sunscreen. And all of those types of things. And as we said, well, there, now, who will have peaches there that you could buy? I wonder.
Anybody has a suggestion? I know that multiple different families and local vendors will have peaches to sell. I know we have multiple different families and companies that produce not only peaches, but as well as cherries, raspberries, and different fruits in that area. And also, and some of them do peach jams, jellies and other fruits and fruit leathers and syrups and sauces.
It's all about the peach. And we talked about the food trucks. And what is it that we require the food trucks do when they come to the peach festival? We encourage all the food trucks to at least have one item with a peach in it.
Whether it's on top or in the dish, we recommend it. Because after all, it is a peach festival, of course. Next Saturday, I do want to tell everyone that we will have a chef or two. We've been meeting a lot of them.
We're getting to know a lot of them. And they're lots of fun. And they always have some great peach tips as well. And we may have a musician.
That's my goal. I tell you what, these musicians, they are always getting bookings. And so sometimes at the last minute. So it will be a surprise to me.
But we will have one as well. And probably a surprise to you, Rio, as well. So he's sitting over there going. I already mentioned one of the musicians.
I did. I did, didn't I? Yes, yes. And we're hoping so.
But a great lineup. People bring chairs. There's a whole atmosphere of the peach. There's a feeling of community.
Even though you have people from all over, everybody feels a part of that community at the peach festival. And I'm sure that next week I'll probably have a recipe from Phil as well for a dish, including peaches. Be sure and take a look at the website, though, and get those tickets. And they may have some tickets left.
There is called dining in the orchards. You girls have probably heard about that at the chamber when you're there. And beautiful, of course, dinner in the orchard. Can you imagine this?
And the trees have lights in them. And it is so magical. It is and the food is so delicious and they do pair them with wines local wines, of course It's amazing how that industry has grown and in fact, there's also another today is another national day And it has to do a wine in Spain, but we'll talk about that later But once again girls, I want to say congratulations to you look for them all look for Lauren Eva and Bella and you will have something you'll have I think won't you have? Identifications we will have student ambassador t-shirts.
Okay. Okay. That's what it is. Okay.
That's great And you all have peach fest t-shirts. I'm sure that you will be identified with so to be looking for these girls And thank you so much for coming and it's always good to see our young people in the valley joining together across the valley I love that every aspect of the valley is represented by all peach lovers are all over the place So have a good day get out there I would recommend you walk early in the morning and keep hydrated and watch out for that danger of the heat see