Another Fall festival in Kentuckiana
October 10, 2004Must be the fall weather makes everyone want to hold outdoor festivals. Last weekend was the St. James Court Art Festival in Old Louisville, this weekend was the Harvest Homecoming up in New Albany.
Now New Albany is the little city across the river from Louisville, basically the only reason I’d ever been thru there before was because it’s on the way to Caesar’s Indiana. But this weekend I happened to be there on Saturday because I wanted to stop at the Seaweed Diver store. Figure I’ve given Louisville Dive Center enough business, I should try to spread it around a little.
So I went to New Albany intending to just buy a dive knife. The knife isn’t to kill sharks or anything glamorous like that–it’s mostly to cut fishing line in case you get tangled up.
Anyway, when I got to New Albany lo-and-behold there’s this Harvest Homecoming happening in downtown. It’s basically a street fair, nowhere near the size of the St. James show. And with a completely different angle–it wasn’t about art, though there were some artist booths. This fair was primarily about food–pies, cookies, baked potatoes, ribeye sandwiches, and on and on.
Unfortunately like an idiot I figured I’d try to fried rice. I’ve been in search of good fried rice here, and I’m still looking. None of the restaurants so far I’ve tried have good fried rice, and now I’m also 0-for-3 at foor fairs. I had the fried rice at the Kentucky State Fair, at the Chow Wagon (one of the events just prior to the Kentucky Derby), and now at the Harvest Homecoming.
I was so hopeful about this last batch, because unlike the other two the people making the fried rice were actual real-live Asians. But apparently as Americanized as I am–their fried rice was horrible.
Luckily the baked goods I tasted were excellent–had the peanut butter cookies, and some beignets. Very tasty, though no doubt very bad for me. But hey, these festivals are only once a year. Unfortunately Louisville has a lot of these festivals spread throughout the year. Man they really love to eat here.
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