HOW TO GO
What: Cityfolk Festival featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Maad Soul Music, Son del Caribe and others
Where: RiverScape MetroPark, 111 E. Monument Ave., Dayton
When: 6-11 p.m. Friday, 1-11 p.m. Saturday and 1-10:30 p.m. Sunday. City of Dayton Fireworks at 10 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $7 per day adults, $3 for children ages 2-12, free for children 2 and younger. Weekend passes $17 adults, $6 children 2-12
More info: (937) 223-3655 or click here.
Jan Steiner can tell you are longing to bite into her frozen cheesecake on a stick. The question is whether you’ll order it plain, covered in chocolate or covered in chocolate and peanuts.
“You know you want it. Come get it,” Steiner, the co-owner of Snack Wagon, said of people who mull over the decision to buy one of her $5 frozen cheesecake slices before giving in to temptation.
The food vendor from Lancaster spent much of today setting up her trailer at RiverScape MetroPark, 111 E. Monument Ave., Dayton.
The annual Cityfolk Festival will be held this evening, Saturday and Sunday.
Fifteen food vendors from the Dayton area and across the country are participating.
She and her husband have been selling chocolate dipped cheesecake for more than 20 years. They started their business two years before that with ice cream bars.
“My son loves cheesecake so much,” Steiner said when asked why the idea of cheesecake on a stick came along.
Her husband created a piece of now patented equipment used to install the sticks into the frozen cheesecake.
The Lancaster resident said her company originated frozen cheesecake on a stick.
“There are some others out there, but they are not like ours,” Steiner said. “Ours are the best.”
Like Stiener, many of the vendors return to Cityfolk year after year.
Last year’s storm was financially disastrous for many of them.
Siripham Kristobek of Siri Grill hoped for good weather and her Caribbean dishes — curry chicken with rice, red beans and rice, Jerk chicken on a stick, etc. — are in demand this weekend.
“Last year, we lost money,” the Centreville, Va. resident said.
Eric Smaw of Alexandria, Va. plans to draw them in with the smell of his fried chicken, fried fish and chicken on a stick.
The owner The Chicken Smells Good said the Cityfolk Festival has been profitable for him in years past. He drove 500 miles to get here. This is his seventh year participating.
“The grill is fired up,” he said.
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