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This sounds like my kind of festival. I just finished the last day of the North American Fruit Explorer's annual conference. This year, it was in Lexington, KY, and today was our field day. We went to the horticultural experimental farm of UK, and tasted lots of great fruits, while listening to presentations by the faculty. Then on to Boyd's Orchard in Versailles, for more fruits and some lunch. In the afternoon, we travelled to the experimental farm of Kentucky State University in Frankfort, where we (among other things) toured the National Pawpaw Germplasm Repository, and were able to taste many delicious varieties of cultivated pawpaw. It was a great conference. All of you with an interest in fruit should look into the organization:

www.nafex.org

"...pomegranates, vulpine pears, rose apples, jujubes (also known as red dates or Chinese dates), quince apples, sorb apples, cornelian cherries and unusual types of berries, as well as medlars..." Jujubes, when dried, look like dried cockroaches (minus the legs), and the taste approximates what I'd imagine for a dried cockroach. They are highly overrated. Cornelian cherries, on the other hand, are wonderful....one of our most underappreciated fruits. I will plant several when I eventually move and buy more property.

Medlars are best compared to apple-flavored wet cardboard.