It's not too late to buy tickets for the Hot Dog Hootenanny on Sunday!

May Day Dinner on the Farm
Friday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Stroll around the great outdoors at Queens County Farm Museum and enjoy a five-course meal featuring lamb, spring vegetables, and local wine. The event is organized by Hapa Kitchen, a supper club created by Akiko Moorman and Cathy Erway of Not Eating Out in New York. Tickets are sold-out, but a reminder to the lucky ones who scored spots! Queens County Farm Museum, 7350 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, Queens (b/n 73rd Road and 74th Avenue, map); 718-347-3276; event website

Brooklyn Food Conference
Saturday, May 1, 9 a.m. kick-off parade to 7 p.m. closing dinner
A free all-day conference devoted to lectures on school lunch policy, the rise in diabetes, food co-ops, new-age farmers, farmers' markets, food stamps, and other key policy issues (including demos for kids and teens). Unless otherwise noted, all workshops (complete schedule here) will be held at John Jay High School. Learn more about Nancy Romer, one of the organizers from our chat with her. 237 7th Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn (map); event website

Free Sausage and Human Muppets
Saturday, May 2, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Enjoy German May Day with maypoles, free sausages, and an adult petting zoo. Meanwhile, fill your growlers with Maibock, May Bock, and Mai-Ur-Bock (some trademark May Day brews). Brouwerij Lane, 78 Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint Brooklyn (b/n Franklin and West Streets, map); event website

Kentucky Derby Parties
Saturday, May 2, 1 p.m.
Celebrate Derby Day with the folks from Brooklyn Based. Featuring tailgate barbecue, Van Leeuwen Artisan's Ice Cream Truck, and free mint juleps from 5 to 6 p.m. Come for the food; stay for the square dancing. The Bell House, 149 7th Street, Gowanus Brooklyn (b/n 2nd and 3rd Avenues; map); 718-643-6510; event website

Saturday, May 2, 3:30 p.m.
Another Derby option: Pete's Candy Store will serve up $5 cornbread-and-spicy-burgoo stew and $10 “Kentucky Blue Plate” specials of ribs, potato salad, and derby pie. Fashion your own fancy millinery with an on-site hat-making service. Drink specials, bluegrass, and ribald fun for all. Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn (b/n Richardson and Frost Streets, map); 718-302-3770; event website

Sakura Matsuri Festival 2009
Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Spring allergies be damned; shower your sinuses with pollen 'n petals at Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Hanami Festival, a Japanese rite of spring. Purchase gifts, cherry blossom food and beverages, and enjoy flower hat dances, Taiko drumming, and more. Tickets $12/adults; $6/seniors and children. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn (nr. Crown Street, map); 718-623-7200; event website

Hot Dog Hootenanny
Sunday, May 2, 3 to 6 p.m.
Whatever you call it, the wiener is one of the world's best loved foods and a true example of American culinary inspiration. Learn what makes this cheap eat so seriously delicious when Serious Eats and Astor Center bring you an afternoon celebrating delicious dogs, from humble (New Jersey Rippers) to fancy (Bulgogi dog). You'll get plenty of frankfurters, as well as beer and Prosecco to wash it all down, for $25. Astor Center, 399 Lafayette Street (map); 212-674-7501; buy tickets here

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival
Sunday, May 3, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Kick off Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month with food and culture, sampling the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and India. Revel in Bhangra, drumming, lion dances, and other folk performances. Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 47th Street (nr. 2nd Avenue, map); event website via Eating in Translation

Street Fairs

Friday, May 1
Fulton Street between Water and Gold Streets; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, May 2
3rd Avenue between 14th and 23rd Streets; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
7th Avenue between 42nd Street and Central Park East Meadow; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, May 3
Broadway between Houston and Grand Streets; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Broadway between 86th and 96th Streets; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Main Street between Route 111 and Smith Avenue, Islip, NY; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Crawfish Boil for NOLA 2009
Saturday, May 16, 4 to 8 p.m.
Crawfish with fixin's, including all-you-can-drink beer and Hurricanes. Read more about Chris Bicknell, the master behind it all. Tickets $60/person, on sale here. Proceeds to benefit the Make It Right Foundation. SolarONE at Stuyvesant Cove Park, 2420 FDR Drive Service Road East (nr. 22nd Street; map); event website