Went to the Folk Fair in Milwaukee today. Representatives from lots of the cultural organizations around the state come and set up booths where they display random stuff from their culture/country. When you go in you get a passport and whenever you go to a booth you get a stamp. I liked the Arab booth because it had a "Merokkan End Table" from The Sims 2. The Polish people made us answer trivia questions before they would let us get stamps. (Because it's really important to know that Liberace was Polish and also from West Allis.) Most of the countries there also had a food booth. We had Greek honey puffs, German cookies and other sweets, Nepali turkey dumplings, and fried bananas and fried squid from the Phillippines among other things. yum! About half of the people there were dressed in their national costume/traditional clothes/lederhosen. It's really funny to see a huge Wisconsin guy dressed in traditional Swiss garb talking on his cell phone while eating an egg roll. Of course there was knitting from a few countries (I got a Christmas tree ornament of Turkish socks!) and also some people making bobbin lace.



Now I'm watching Iron Chef. The secret ingredient? Cranberries! My sou chef Bobby is going into the kitchen now...