National Lentil Festival
national lentil festival annual food festival pullman washington honor lentil festival take place every year weekend class resume washington state university also pullman friday night includes live musical entertainment childrens carnival free lentil chili many business craft vendor saturday event include contest lentil cookoff many art business vendor grand parade breakfast lentil pancake feed tase lentil k fun runwalk beer garden food court featuring lentil dish large kid area many family activity event includes legendary lentil cook sponsored annually usa dry pea lentil council nonprofit organization founded purpose promoting protecting engaged growing processing warehousing merchandising pea lentil chickpea original festival organized objective festival promote tourism palouse region promote locally grown pulse particularly lentil time original festival lentil selected united state crop lentil grown palouse initial festival drew crowd approximately people festival held annually except covid pandemic washington caused official defer festival year national lentil festival organized help pullman chamber commerce festival committee addition many volunteer help make event run smoothly palouse region grows lentil u according festival website official website