Cooks ' Festival ( Fate des Cuisiniyres ) in early August in Pointe- ? -Pitre , with a colorful , appetite-stimulating parade , a religious ceremony honoring Saint Laurent ( chosen as the local cooks ' patron saint because in a.d. 258 he was burned alive on a rack , which is now a kitchen utensil ) and a monumental free feast with singing , dancing , and liberal applications of rum punch .
The festival has a big parade .