Carnival Time
posted by Kerry-Anne
This weekend was carnival time in Cape Town. The annual Maynardville Carnival is a fundraising initiative run by the Community Chest charity organisation. The main focus is on food, with stalls selling everything from Austrian cheese and Chinese food, to Belgian waffles and seafood. This year we were brave enough to try a piece of chickpea fudge from the Hare Krishna stall - and hey, it was pretty good!
The carnival has been an institution for as long as I can remember, and has a very particular smell - a combination of all the food being cooked - that brings memories flooding back each time I visit.
2 Comments:
Carnaval here in Mazatlan was 5 days of pagan celebration, and I loved it all! But it ended on Ash Wednesday. Why is yours later??
Kate, the Maynardville Carnival doesn't have any link with the worldwide Carnival celebrations - I think the word is used more in the American sense of a "fair". It's an interesting point though!
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