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GILROY—It was a record-setting year for the Gilroy Garlic Festival, and not for the heat. More money was generated this year than ever in the festival’s 37-year history, 2015 festival president Deanna Franklin said Monday.

Updates from the World's Greatest Summer Food Festival in Gilroy, California.

Despite unusually warm weather that set temperatures rolling into the low-100s at peak festival time, results from the 36th Annual Gilroy Garlic Festival stay true to the community spirit that has and will continue to define the event as a hometown tradition drawing international crowds.

Sunday’s Gilroy Garlic Festival President Vito Mercado extinguished the  bulb with a final audience cool-off outside the mist tents, drawing a close to a Sunday chock-full of garlicky action.

Children’s violin skills may not be the first thought that comes to mind when thinking about Garlic.

Looking to catch some shade during Garlic Festival while sipping south Santa Clara County wines?

Santa Clara County's Gilroy may be the garlic capital of the world, but at least three consecutive years of crop reports reveal San Benito County produces more of the stinking rose.

The Garlic Festival family is coping with the loss of a longtime, integral team member who always went the “extra mile” and built relationships that are “almost impossible to replace.”

A concert last weekend called Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park and a restaurant in Oakland called “Homeroom” lead us, of course, to our Great Gilroy Garlic Festival. “Homeroom” Co-owners Allison Arevalo and Erin Wade run a mac-and-cheese restaurant that serves up creamy goodness that is, by all accounts, “to die for.” At Outside Lands, which daughter Mariah attended, they served up 5,000 pounds of Gilroy Garlic Mac and Cheese in two and a half days, according to a story in the Contra Costa Times. Note to incoming G-Fest volunteer President Vito Mercado: Road trip to “Homeroom” is in order, meet Allison and Erin and get them to the festival. I’m thinking a booth for the Gilroy Garlic Mac and Cheese (near a microwbrew beer station) a guest appearance on the Cook-off Stage. Who wouldn’t want to take in a few mac-and-cheese recipe variations – and the recipes in their new cookbook “The Mac + Cheese Cookbook: 50 Simple Recipes from Homeroom, America’s Favorite Mac and Cheese Restaurant” are in the form of teacher lesson plans. That’s cool.

You’ll find me at the Garlic Festival almost every year. If I’m not meandering around with friends, I at least take a quick break from work Friday to swing by and grab a peppersteak sandwich and some garlic bread.