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Why not answer all three possibilities this time?
Holiday: You all may remember that Halloween is my favourite holiday based on how many times I’ve blogged about it in the past, so I won’t go into too much detail about it today. I doubt this will ever change because of how much I love the creativity of it all as well as the candy.
Fair: Did you know there is a Scarborough here in Ontario? I think of the traditional North English ballad Scarborough Fair every time someone here mentions going to Scarborough and hope that our version of this place will someday have a fair named after it. We could buy parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme there. 😉
In the meantime, look at how pretty the bluffs are out in that part of Ontario. They’re even more impressive in person, so I highly recommend spending a few hours out there if you’re ever in the area.
Festival: My favourite festival used to be VegFoodFest, a vegan food festival here in Toronto. It was cancelled this year, and we don’t know if or when it’s coming back in the future.
Why did I like it? Well, vegan food festivals are guaranteed not to have any milk ingredients in any of their food because that would obviously defeat the purpose of something being vegan.
This means that vegan food is a rare opportunity for me to pick just about anything I like from the menu instead of mentally eliminating all of the dishes that either include or may include milk in their ingredient lists and seeing what, if anything, is left over.
It’s not that it’s difficult for me to do this due to the fact that I’ve been thinking about food through the lens of my allergy since I was a kid, but it’s incredibly nice to genuinely be able to eat possibly* everything on a menu instead of hoping there will be a handful of safe dishes for me to choose from.
*I have a soy intolerance as well, but food intolerances are much easier to work with because a little soy in a dish is fine. So I generally only need to avoid dishes that use a lot of it like, say, having tofu as the protein component of a stir-fry.