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Tomorrow: RTM's Festival of Forgotten Foods
Philly has its famous edible signatures - cheesesteaks, scrapple, hoagies. But there are just as many regional foods that have fallen out of favor, due to changing tastes, environmental shifts or simply just the passage of time.
Tomorrow: RTM's Festival of Forgotten Foods
Philly has its famous edible signatures — cheesesteaks, pretzels, scrapple, hoagies. But there are just as many regional foods that have fallen out of favor, due to changing tastes, environmental shifts or simply just the passage of time. Tomorrow, Nov. 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Reading Terminal Market (12th and Arch streets) is bringing some of these eats back during its second biannual Festival of Forgotten Foods in Center Court.
The event will feature tastes of archaic Philadelphia dishes and products, like Wilbur Buds (the chocolate treat that eventually evolved into Hershey's Kisses); fried catfish and waffles; pepper pot soup; fried oysters and chicken salad (a classic Philly combo that's starting to come back into favor); raspberry shrub (the vinegar/fruit/water concoction that was a favorite of playboy Ben Franklin); and paw paw ice cream.
Vendors providing these delights will include Pearl’s Oyster Bar, Down Home Diner, Beck’s Cajun Café, Martin’s Quality Meats and Sausage, Fair Food Farmstand, Pennsylvania General Store and Bassetts Ice Cream. All the samples will costs between $2 and $5 apiece. For those attending between 11 and 3, there will be a live banjo player on hand as you make the rounds.
I'm not sure "live" banjo players are the best kind.— Holly Moore- Gah! I wish I wasn't working tomorrow, very intrigued by the fried catfish and waffles!— MLF
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