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"Returning in June for its 31st year, the New Orleans Wine and Food Experience (NOWFE) is one of the city’s ritziest—and pricier—food and drink festivals, featuring dozens of events (wine dinners, tastings, excursions, seminars and hands-on classes) and having raised more than $1.5 million for local nonprofit culinary education organizations over the last three decades; I see it as both an educational and indulgent week of food and wine, with offerings from cake-decorating lessons to high-end tasting events." - Clair Lorell