Malden Salt Fest was held this weekend at J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works to celebrate the history of salt making in the Kanawha Valley. The event featured artisans, live music and food trucks. I stopped to check out SweetGrass Granola, which is based in Kentucky. And, I had one of my most favorite pepperoni rolls in recent years from Karen's Pepperoni Rolls. The dough was sweet and not too thick. But the roll itself was huge and had a ton of pepperoni and pepper jack cheese. If you know where to find these rules outside of the festival, please let me know. Finally, I went to Little Jimmy's Italian Ice and had a mix of green apple, watermelon, blue raspberry, and cherry. The super fine ice and fruit flavor just heads different on a really hot day. Here is who else was there:

MUSIC
John Inghram Band
Kanawha Tradition
Chance McCoy & Tessa Dillon
The Chucktown Allstars

VENDORS
Angelos Italian Sausage
Appalachian Botanical Co
Autumn Sky LLC
Bean Theory coffee
Charleston Bee Works
Clairice Hemme Art
East Wheeling ClayWorks
Hill & Hollow
Karen's Pepperoni Rolls
Little Jimmy's Italian Ice
Made by Meish
Mady's Stichery
Manna Meal
MoonStruck Maple
Mountain Juice WV
Mountain Studio
Mountiques
Mrs. Mel's
Parties and Peonies
Soul Purpose Healing
Splinters Country Crafts
Sugar Bottom Farm
Summer Kitchen Books
SweetGrass Granola
Terra Fate Exotics
The Auber House
The Wild Ramp
Uncle Frankie's
Villa DiTrapano INC
What Nots Galore
Wick & Woodsy LLC
Wild & Wonderful BBQ
Yarn.Over