Double whammy everyone, today you get a #linklove_wednesday AND learn all about the Fulton Market Harvest Fest!

Old Town has an art fair, as does the West Loop.  Pilsen has molé fest.  Roscoe village has a burger fest.  Well not to be outdone, Fulton Market had its first ever Harvest Fest!!!  And what fun it was!

My friends and I got together for what I call an American “panagiri”.  What is a panagiri?  Basically it’s a Greek word for your local village music and food festival.  You walk around in a haze, trying to decide what to eat and listen to music…well guess what?  We had one here in my local village of Chicago and it was delicious!  For my tummy and ears!

See that ^^ up there???  That’s the pulled pork and corn elotes from Green Street Meats.  You know why this was so awesome?  The pork.  It reminded me of the “gourounopoula”, you guessed it at a panagiri!!!   Gourounopoula is slow roasted pig in Greece and it’s just seasoned with salt and pepper and it renders its fat and make all of life and the universe taste heavenly!  That’s what this pulled pork sandwich did for me.

Oh and that ^^ is a pumpkin ale from Goose Island Brewery.  It was great!  And I don’t even like beer!  But I liked this one.  I need to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown this weekend and have a pumpkin ale.

And then, they had cooking demonstrations!  What craziness is this?  Well when Fulton Market is full of such great restaurants like PQM and the Publican, La Serena Clandistina and Duck Duck Goat we ALL wonder how they make food taste so good.  Fulton Market is a vortex of all good food.  I’m pretty sure I didn’t have that pig ^^ in the picture in my sandwich!  No.  I don’t think so.  I hope not.  Poor pig…in my belly!  🙂

That’s me and T sitting on a couple of bales of hay.  Yes that T, the wearer of high heals at farmers markets.  She was sensible that day.  Chuck Taylors. Denim and plaid.  Very Americana and harvest-y.  Don’t ya’ think?

Those were little bolognese stuffed buns from Monteverde.  I mean come on!  Cute and tasty.  Nice touch with the rosemary. I hope they do this harvest-fest-roasted-pig-pumpkin-beer-and-music-panagiri thing again next year.  It was awesome!

And now, here are my favorite links this week, Wednesday, October 5, 2016:

1.  It’s fall, which means soup season!

2.  Are you a writer?  It’s nanowrimo next month!  Plan now.

3.  The Queen owns all the dolphins and swans…and other things.

4.  Fall also means, too many apples and apple butter!

5.  If you’re a girl, and you love shoes, you love Christian Louboutin…le sigh.

6.  Go see Lady Gaga…at your local dive bar?

7.  But, but why?  When a runny egg yolk is so darn good?

8.  I haven’t even gone camping, what’s this glamping business?

9.  How to raise a Nobel Prize winner…I like this video.