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Food Festival
Aug. 9th, 2021 12:38 pmThere was a food festival in Seaham this weekend: this tells you less about Seaham as a gastronomic hotspot (though it does have a perfectly satisfactory chippy) and more about the growth of the food festival as a tourist attraction available to any municipality. Since I already had my suspicios about this, I set off on Saturday morning with reasonable expectations, and had a good time.
The festival was on the green by the 'Tommy' statue: street food (and drink) around the outside, provisions to take home in the middle. Rather more of the former than the latter, and some very fancy mobile stalls - fried chicken from a red barn, cocktails from a very art deco trailer... Clearly people are making a living out of the festival circuit, and clearly they find it worth putting money into fancy presrntation. Some of the offerings were very tempting, and on a different day with different facilities I might happily have bought a platter of something deep fried and a glass of cider. But we were there to shop, so we ignored the cookery demonstrations in the open air stage, and we shopped.
We bought ( and bought and bought ... )
But no-one was selling bread, or bottled beer - or other things on my list, but those were the ones I'd hoped to find. No problem, we went to Aldi and filled the gaps.
The festival was on the green by the 'Tommy' statue: street food (and drink) around the outside, provisions to take home in the middle. Rather more of the former than the latter, and some very fancy mobile stalls - fried chicken from a red barn, cocktails from a very art deco trailer... Clearly people are making a living out of the festival circuit, and clearly they find it worth putting money into fancy presrntation. Some of the offerings were very tempting, and on a different day with different facilities I might happily have bought a platter of something deep fried and a glass of cider. But we were there to shop, so we ignored the cookery demonstrations in the open air stage, and we shopped.
We bought ( and bought and bought ... )
But no-one was selling bread, or bottled beer - or other things on my list, but those were the ones I'd hoped to find. No problem, we went to Aldi and filled the gaps.
