Order your crepe and drink your plastic cup of Beaujolais while sitting in front of Milwaukee’s very own Le Tour Eiffel.

We only have a couple more weeks of class left until summer and I can already smell the brats and sauerkraut of June’s Locust Street Days, the beignets of July’s Bastille Days and my favorite corn dogs slathered with yellow mustard at August’s Wisconsin State Fair.

Although not my usual healthy picks, these Wisconsin summertime delicacies have been willingly shoved down my throat since the days of being pushed around in a stroller and I am not about to give them up now. If you think the absence of eight page papers and scantron sheets make you jump for joy when thinking about summer, what about all the great food? Milwaukee is known for its festivals and I have all of my favorite foods at these events listed below.

June - Locust Street Festival

I have two very unhealthy obsessions and I get to indulge in them both, for a very low price, every year at Locust Street Festival. My first one costs less that 10 dollars and I usually am in tears when it’s over with. I get my palm read by George Sands, Milwaukee’s most known palmist.

When that’s over with, I always cheer myself up with my second obsession: a beer brat topped with mustard and sauerkraut. Nothing cures a hazy fortune like pork stewed in Miller Lite for a few hours.

July - Bastille Days

French restaurants in Milwaukee set up their trailers and accept tickets for their authentic food being sold at this festival honoring France’s independence. Some items not to miss are the beignets (fried dough sprinkled with powdered sugar) and the crepes.

Sure, you could just go to Elliot’s Bistro any night of the week and order a crepe stuffed with just about anything that you would like and I’m sure you will feel like you are eating one right off the streets of Paris. But the festival has one thing that Elliot’s does not and that is an extremely large sized replica of the Eiffel Tower.

Order your crepe and drink your plastic cup of Beaujolais while sitting in front of Milwaukee’s very own Tour Eiffel.

August – Wisconsin State Fair

Everyone has their favorite food item at the fair. Mine is the corn dog, but not just any corn dog. I have to get the dog by the vendor that sells them next to the Giant Slide. I can’t eat a corn dog from anywhere else in the fair; it has to be the Giant Slide corn dog. Why? Well, after years of being an employee of the fair (yes, I admit it and it was one of the best jobs of my life) I have had my share of fair food. But the corn dogs by the big slide have a little crispness at the bottom of the stick that I live for.

It is the part of the batter than is charred onto the stick and it is amazingly good. I always have to gnaw it off but it is so worth it.

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