Fourth Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival

On Saturday, 22 September 2018, we held the 4th Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival. Last year we only had 12 pawpaws to divide among the crowds that thronged our house for the festival. But this year we had many more. (Whoever can count the number of the pawpaws on the counter, so be it.) We had enough that at the end of the evening, since I was cutting them in half and in fourths to make sure we had enough to go around, we had pawpaws to send guests home with.

This year we roped three friends into making some desserts with some frozen pawpaw pulp we had put in the freezer in 2017. So in addition to our traditional pawpaw cake, some friends brought pawpaw pudding, pawpaw cheesecake (with pawpaw topping), and then a layered and glazed pawpaw cake. I had some of each of the pawpaw desserts, and by the time I finished them I swore I would never eat anymore food in my life--and I kept to that swearing until lunch the next day. And there was a lot of other food at the 4th Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival--including some jackfruit.

About 50 people came to the 4th Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival; you can't see them all in this pic.

Some people talked inside.

Some people talked outside.

In this picture, to the far left, you can see the table where we set out our pawpaw linocuts, hand pulled over the course of a year, in preparation to give away at the 4th Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival. Here are some links to the prints we gave away: here and here and here. And here and here.