The moody melancholic in us loves the name of of the Reading Terminal Market’s upcoming Festival of Forgotten Foods. It reminds us of the sad, decomposing celery at the bottom of our crisper, the forlorn jar of blue cheese-stuffed olives we opened once for a dinner party and have coldly ignored as the little green orbs stare plaintively from their permanent spot on the refrigerator shelf, the picked-apart chicken carcass we considered making soup with, but abandoned in the face of an impending deadline. Fortunately, this event is not about any of those! On Saturday, November 14, there will be samples for sale of “forgotten regional favorites” from the Pennsylvania region like pepper hash, snapper soup, Cope’s dried corn, fried catfish and waffles and teaberry ice cream from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Market’s Center Court. For more on the history of these items, read Rick Nichols’ lovely meander through the forgotten foods of the area in the Inquirer. [Reading Terminal Market]
