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Post by imec on Jul 31, 2009 21:44:01 GMT
We're well into Manitoba's summer festival season and we have some weird ones. This weekend it's Frog Follies!What festivals are happening round your way?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2009 21:50:16 GMT
I knew there must have been a reason to cut short your European holiday.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2009 22:32:47 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009 2:56:33 GMT
Love that great shot of the crowd from above.
Wonder why they don't hold the event in Armstrong Park.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009 2:59:36 GMT
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.
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Post by imec on Aug 1, 2009 3:55:22 GMT
Here's another one happening closeby this weekend: IslendingadagurinnIt's really just a piss-up for Manitoba's Icelandic community (the largest outside of Iceland)
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009 4:37:21 GMT
It looks like a big fair, which could be fun. The food offerings aren't fun though. What do Icelandic people eat besides pancakes?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2009 11:46:14 GMT
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.
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Post by imec on Aug 1, 2009 12:48:42 GMT
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. Rulepolse - Rolle and stuffed breast of Lamb - sometimes smoked like this one. 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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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2009 12:54:13 GMT
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?
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Post by imec on Aug 1, 2009 13:00:18 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2009 13:06:24 GMT
Slightly resembles our 'doberge' cake
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2009 13:47:29 GMT
*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!
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Post by imec on Aug 1, 2009 15:53:53 GMT
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Post by LouisXIV on Aug 3, 2009 16:06:36 GMT
Here in Traverse City, Michigan we have an annual Cherry Festival. Come see it next year July 3 -- July 10. www.cherryfestival.org/#3a
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2009 4:21:42 GMT
Are cherries a major crop of Michigan? I never really noticed where American cherries originate from.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2009 5:10:26 GMT
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)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2009 11:55:07 GMT
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.
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Post by LouisXIV on Aug 5, 2009 16:24:55 GMT
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.
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Post by imec on Aug 5, 2009 16:28:29 GMT
But I still use them in Manhattan's. A man after my own heart.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2009 17:05:31 GMT
Did I remember to mention the Avignon theatre festival anywhere?
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Post by imec on Aug 5, 2009 17:16:51 GMT
Did I remember to mention the Avignon theatre festival anywhere? Are they serving Manhattans?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 5, 2009 17:51:49 GMT
Is it in North or Central America?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2009 13:00:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2009 21:25:43 GMT
Oh, and this weekend is the start of the Burning Man Festival in Nevada
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 2:03:11 GMT
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Post by imec on Sept 6, 2009 18:56:45 GMT
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!)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2009 20:17:12 GMT
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.
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Post by nic on Sept 8, 2009 3:41:07 GMT
One of my favourites happens to take place in Southern California... 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!
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Post by nic on Sept 8, 2009 3:46:44 GMT
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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