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1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · David Witte/News-Sentinel Staff Writer

   From classic favorites to new twists, Grape Festival fare caters to foodies (opens the original)

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   Where there’s a fair, there’s food, and the Grape Festival is no different, with offerings from barbecue to tacos to funnel cakes. Alongside those classic fair offerings, there’s a couple of additions to the culinary cavalcade this year, one new and one old. A Moveable Feast, the Lodi food truck that has been a mainstay at the Festival since 2013, took a year off in 2025, but is back this year with its menu of sandwiches and aromatic garlic fries. This year’s festival, which runs Thursda

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2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · David Witte/News-Sentinel

   In the midst of World War I, hamburger steak was out, and liberty steak was in (opens the original)

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   On the same day that the Lodi Sentinel reported the first Lodi soldier to die in World War I, the paper reported on locals’ disgust with hamburger steak. Not the actual dish, mind you, but the name, and it’s origin in the city of Hamburg. “The name hamburger was a trifle to (sic) German for Lodi folk,” the Sentinel wrote in the Saturday, June 8, 1918 edition. “And that’s why it was changed.” The new name for the dish? Liberty Steak. The term “hamburger steak,” which appeared re

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