Foods in Fairs and Festivals
Cooking has always been one of my favorite things to do. Besides the line of work I’m in, it’s something else I’m good at. I’ve grown up in my mom’s kitchen, looking at her cookbooks and listening to the sizzling sounds of saut?ing food and being familiar with the small accidents that sometimes happen.
A few days ago, I met up with an old officemate of mine who have since made a living as an entrepreneur. He had remembered how I once cooked the food for an office gathering and he wanted to ask a favor. Basically, he pitched an idea to me about me adding in some food to complement a booth he was going to set up at a fair. His idea was selling cold fruitshakes, which was pretty fun. I was on leave, so I decided I’d give it a try.
But what do you pair with fruitshakes? Most foods will work with them, but what would go well with them in particular? I cracked open the cookbooks in my kitchen, and after a while got to thinking that maybe I bit off a bit more than I could manage. Most of the food ideas dancing around in my head were a bit too unwieldy to be prepared in a fair booth properly. Burgers are easy to work with, but aren’t nothing special, really.
The answer to my dilemma is something spicy! Something to complement my friend’s fruitshakes. The original fallback plan was burgers and instead of going with that I decided to search for mom’s old chili recipes. I found one and started preparing it. After that, I pushed the idea a bit more and developed the chiliburger!
But it would’ve been weird to have chiliburgers and fruitshakes within the same one stall, so I met up with my friend again and proposed an idea of my own. Set me up with my own booth in close proximity to his. He took to the idea and pretty soon, we were in contact with the event organizers to get my very own stall.