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Message:	[quote author=louisxiv board=performance thread=2151 post=35199 time=1249489495]The cherries are a major crop in the Grand Traverse region of northwestern Michigans lower peninsula. They have been for almost a 100 years. The main reasons the cherries do well here is that one, they are near Lake Michigan and the Great Lake keeps the temperture reasonable year around and second, there are rolling hills that allow for "air drain" to allow for the cold air to go down the hills and minimize frost in the spring. Yes, the Pacific Northwest is another area that produces cherries and in fact we have to get our sweet cherries from there for our Cherry Festival because the sweet cherries in our area are not ripe yet. I am sure there are other areas of the country that cherries are grown. Apples are also another major crop in Michigan. We also have many vineyards in the area and for the same reason that the cherries do well here. Yes the process for making Maraschino cherries does use a brine process to remove the color from the cherries and then the put the color back in. I have met many people here who do not like them for that reason. But I still use them in Manhattan's.[/quote] Expand
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Posted by imec on Jul 31, 2009, 9:44pm

We're well into Manitoba's summer festival season and we have some weird ones. This weekend it's Frog Follies!
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What festivals are happening round your way?

Posted by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2009, 9:50pm

I knew there must have been a reason to cut short your European holiday.

Posted by casimira on Jul 31, 2009, 10:32pm

http://www.fqfi.org/satchmosummerfest/

The Louis Armstrong,"Satchmo", summer fest is this weekend here

Posted by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009, 2:56am

Love that great shot of the crowd from above.

Wonder why they don't hold the event in Armstrong Park.

Posted by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009, 2:59am

Monday was the end of Oaxaca's big festival -- the Guelaguetza. I guess this is awful, but I've never been. There is something about sitting in the sun for hours looking at repetitive folk dancing that just doesn't ring my bell.

Year before last I went to the "People's Guelaguetza". This is an alternate festival held in protest of the the state government. It was okay, but still folk dancing.

Posted by imec on Aug 1, 2009, 3:55am

Here's another one happening closeby this weekend: Islendingadagurinn

It's really just a piss-up for Manitoba's Icelandic community (the largest outside of Iceland)

Posted by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009, 4:37am

It looks like a big fair, which could be fun. The food offerings aren't fun though. What do Icelandic people eat besides pancakes?

Posted by casimira on Aug 1, 2009, 11:46am

Aug 1, 2009, 2:56am, bixaorellana wrote:

Love that great shot of the crowd from above.

Wonder why they don't hold the event in Armstrong Park.

Good question,I will inquire. The main activities and archival displays are housed in the old U.S. Mint so maybe why.
Better then them having it at Armstrong International Airport I guess ::)

Kind of off topic but somewhat related. After Katrina we found in a junk pile some old slightly damaged playbills and among them was one advertising Satchmo playing at the Brown Derby or Dew Drop Inn from the 1940's. I think I'm going to donate it to the Satchmo Museum although ,they probably have a slew.

Posted by imec on Aug 1, 2009, 12:48pm

Aug 1, 2009, 4:37am, bixaorellana wrote:

It looks like a big fair, which could be fun. The food offerings aren't fun though. What do Icelandic people eat besides pancakes?

Hardfish - dried fish which is great to snack on with beer. In Manitoba they make it with the local Walleye - but you have to "know" someone.
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Rulepolse - Rolle and stuffed breast of Lamb - sometimes smoked like this one.
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Vinatarta - very thin layers of cake interspersed with very thin layers of a prune jam. (the layers on this one are way too thick) VERY tasty!
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Posted by casimira on Aug 1, 2009, 12:54pm

Is the fish smoked beforehand imec? The lamb looks inviting and the prune confection I would entertain only if the layers were much,much thinner as you suggest.
Have you ever been (to Iceland) imec?

Posted by imec on Aug 1, 2009, 1:00pm

No, the fish is just hung out on a line (salted first?) to dry - the more fly shit the better.

Here's a better pic of the cake:

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Posted by casimira on Aug 1, 2009, 1:06pm

Slightly resembles our 'doberge' cake

Posted by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009, 1:47pm

*frantically rummages in genealogy documents for evidence of Icelandic ancestry*

Wow ~~ all of those traditional foods appeal to me immensely. Skemmta ykkur at the Islendingadagurinn!

Posted by imec on Aug 1, 2009, 3:53pm

The "big daddy" of Manitoba summer festivals takes place here in Winnipeg. Folklorama, now in it's 40th year, provides an opportunity for all the ethnic cultures represented in Manito ba to showcase their food, drink and entertainment at pavillions set up in locations across the city. It's hugely popular with many bus tours showing up from U.S. cities such as Minneapolis/St.Paul.

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Posted by LouisXIV on Aug 3, 2009, 4:06pm

Here in Traverse City, Michigan we have an annual Cherry Festival. Come see it next year July 3 -- July 10.

http://www.cherryfestival.org/#3a

Posted by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2009, 4:21am

Are cherries a major crop of Michigan? I never really noticed where American cherries originate from.

Posted by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2009, 5:10am

We'll wait for Louis to give us the intelligent, accurate answer. But in the meantime ..................

I remember someone telling me years ago that Michigan is where maraschino cherries come from! This person was disgusted by the maraschino-ing process. Apparently it involved leaching everything out of the cherries first. (with lye, maybe? don't remember)

Posted by casimira on Aug 4, 2009, 11:55am

Aug 4, 2009, 4:21am, kerouac2 wrote:

Are cherries a major crop of Michigan? I never really noticed where American cherries originate from.

Upstate New York in the area around the Finger Lakes, South of Rochester, has a huge area of cherry orchards.
I believe that the Pacific Northwest also has a tremendous yield of cherries.

Posted by LouisXIV on Aug 5, 2009, 4:24pm

The cherries are a major crop in the Grand Traverse region of northwestern Michigans lower peninsula. They have been for almost a 100 years. The main reasons the cherries do well here is that one, they are near Lake Michigan and the Great Lake keeps the temperture reasonable year around and second, there are rolling hills that allow for "air drain" to allow for the cold air to go down the hills and minimize frost in the spring.

Yes, the Pacific Northwest is another area that produces cherries and in fact we have to get our sweet cherries from there for our Cherry Festival because the sweet cherries in our area are not ripe yet.

I am sure there are other areas of the country that cherries are grown. Apples are also another major crop in Michigan.

We also have many vineyards in the area and for the same reason that the cherries do well here.

Yes the process for making Maraschino cherries does use a brine process to remove the color from the cherries and then the put the color back in. I have met many people here who do not like them for that reason. But I still use them in Manhattan's.

Posted by imec on Aug 5, 2009, 4:28pm

Aug 5, 2009, 4:24pm, LouisXIV wrote:

But I still use them in Manhattan's.

A man after my own heart.

Posted by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2009, 5:05pm

Did I remember to mention the Avignon theatre festival anywhere?

Posted by imec on Aug 5, 2009, 5:16pm

Aug 5, 2009, 5:05pm, kerouac2 wrote:

Did I remember to mention the Avignon theatre festival anywhere?

Are they serving Manhattans?

Posted by bixaorellana on Aug 5, 2009, 5:51pm

Is it in North or Central America?

Posted by casimira on Sept 3, 2009, 1:00pm

This weekend:

http://www.shrimp-petrofest.org/

Very big. The name of this has always cracked me up!

Posted by casimira on Sept 3, 2009, 9:25pm

Oh, and this weekend is the start of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada

Posted by casimira on Sept 6, 2009, 2:03am

yet another festival right here in NOLA,totally forgot! Billed as "the Gay Mardi Gras",have only been once. Outrageously fun!

http://www.neworleans.com/new-orleans-fe....e-festival.html

Posted by imec on Sept 6, 2009, 6:56pm

Sept 3, 2009, 9:25pm, casimira wrote:

Oh, and this weekend is the start of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada

I'd love to do this sometime. (any idea who is singing the song in this video? it's great!)

Posted by kerouac2 on Sept 6, 2009, 8:17pm

The last big event of the summer in Paris is the Techno Parade on September 19th this year.

It is no longer "age appropriate" for me.

Posted by nic on Sept 8, 2009, 3:41am

One of my favourites happens to take place in Southern California...

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Yes, it's the annual Mooning of the Amtrak Trains! in Laguna Nigel. Unfortunately you'll have to wait until July 2010 for the next one!

Posted by nic on Sept 8, 2009, 3:46am

This one's in the Fall (the Sunday before Thanksgiving to be exact), but it can't hurt to get the word out a little early!

Save Our Sandwich: The 2nd Annual New Orleans Poboy Preservation Festival

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