This is the 29th year of the Creole Tomato Festival. What are the keys to keeping an annual event such as this running and successful?

Feed people good food and they’ll keep coming back for it year after year. And that’s certainly what we do. Another key is consistency. You can’t decide one year to move it because it’s hot, move it because it might rain, or decide to move it to September. We’ve always held it the second full weekend in June, and we’ve held it then for the las...