No, the event is not food-free. You can bring food and are even allowed to bring a propane stove to cook with, just no fires or BBQ pits or anything like that.

Although I am not sure about the bear situation. I know they recommend you tie your food up to a tree but to me that sounds a bit difficult, not to mention I'm not sure if there'll be enough trees in the camping area to hang EVERYONE's food from. Seems like a lot. Plus if it happened to rain that would ruin everything. I guess you could put your food in air tight containers so it doesn't give off as much of a smell to attract animals, and then attempt to keep it stored in your tent, but other than that, I'm not sure. I have a cabin to store all my food in so I'm hoping that will be enough to keep the bears away.

I was wondering, though, do they expect the smell of all the cooked food from the vendors to not attract animals? It would suck to be walking around getting food, and then see a bear creeping around a vendor booth... Scary. Lol.