I just got back from the Great Jones County Fair in Iowa, and I live to tell the tale of its food. Mostly beige, mostly deep-fried, mostly tempting after a late night concert and some tall cans of Leinenkugel. Aside from the smoked meats on sticks and funnel cakes, I really missed our own local fair food from the PNE. Hand-held snacks with colour, vibrance, sweetness, and ok a little bit of deep-frying too.
The Fair at the PNE just announced what their vendors will be offering up this season, and it’s like they were reading my mind when they came up with their latest food trend/theme: “Anything pickled.”
PNE Fair Food for the Summer of 2019
Pickle Cotton Candy
Over ten percent of the food booths at the Fair will be new in 2019, with an increased focus on plant-based, vegan and vegetarian options.
Fairgoers will be able to choose a Beyond Meat Burger at the Handmade Stuffed Burger Booth on the Fair main food line or at the Lookout Grill in Playland. New vegetarian options come from a number of new food vendors including Govinda’s Vegan Vegetarian Street Food stand featuring Dragon Bowls, and Atomic Tacos on the Fair west food Line and locally owed Buddha-Full Vegetarian Food, featuring their popular double decker bus on the Fair main food line.
Buddha-Full Dishes
NEW additions to the traditional Fair food include: Bacon Pancakes, Butter Beer Ice Cream, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Corndogs, Funnel Cake Pizza, Jalapeno Lemonade, Foot Long French Fries, Devil’s Ramen, the Tipsy Unicorn Dry Ice Drink, Pulled Pork Tater Tot Nachos, Pizza Perogies, The Snickly Dog, Pickle Pizza, Pickle Flavour Cotton Candy, Rice Burgers, and Traditional Mexican Street Corn, Watermelon Candy Floss, among others.
Apple Pie Smoothie and Bacon Pancakes
The PNE Fair will celebrate its longest running concessionaire, Jimmy’s Lunch during the 2019 Fair, where the family will mark their 90th consecutive PNE Fair! Today run by Jimmy’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Jimmy’s Lunch still serves its iconic hamburgers piled high with fried onions. In 1999 in a province-wide media poll to mark the turn of the millennia, British Columbians voted the smell of Jimmy’s fried onions one of the ten most iconic memories of the 20th century.
So there’s a lot more to entice your taste buds that the sweet wafting aromas of mini donuts! The Fair at the PNE runs from Saturday August 17, until Monday September 2, 2019. Open 11:00am until late (weather permitting). Check out the Summer Nights Concert lineup and follow the Fair at the PNE on Facebook and Twitter for daily info.
Where else can you get a pitch-side tour of a major league field, climb a tread-wall or clock your best sprint, and see artefacts from the Olympics and history in motion? It’s the BC Sports Hall of Fame at BC Place and it’s a great place to visit this summer!
Visit the BC Sports Hall of Fame This Summer
Within the last year, the BC Sports Hall of Fame has also unveiled the Indigenous Sport Gallery, celebrating and recognizing Indigenous athletes who have made an impact on British Columbia’s sport history. The Gallery features over 1,000 square feet of permanent exhibit space, and highlights the impact of athletes like Gino Odjick, Carey Price, Richard Peter, Justina Di Stasio, and others.
The Indigenous Sport Gallery celebrates the rich history and many contributions to sport by First Nations and Métis athletes, teams, coaches, builders and volunteers in BC, and attempts to remedy the fact that Indigenous athletes and teams have not been properly celebrated and honoured over the course of our province’s history.
Visitors can read information about traditional Indigenous games; view artefacts and memorabilia from Indigenous athletes in all levels of sport; see a feature on the North American Indigenous Games; and visit a dedicated space, the Circle of Champions, which honours the Indigenous athletes that have been formally Inducted to the BC Sports Hall of Fame.
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I have a pair of passes to give away to the BC Sports Hall of Fame so you can check out the Indigenous Sport Gallery and more. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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The Vancouver Art Gallery presents its headline exhibition this summer, Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time on now until September 29, 2019. This wide- ranging exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings and lithographs by Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) examines the pre-and post-war career of one of the greatest sculptors of the first half of the twentieth century.
Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time
Presented on the Gallery’s first floor, it showcases Giacometti’s works alongside the ancient sculptures that served his imagination, and works by famed artists with whom he was in dialogue.
Alberto Giacometti in his studio
Photo: Rene Burri/Magnum Photos
In 2016, the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts in Norwich commemorated the 50th anniversary of Giacometti’s death with A Line Through Time, which was named by The Telegraph as one of the top exhibitions of that year.
Here are some additional art exhibitions and more on now at the Vancouver Art Gallery:
More at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Until September 1, 2019 Moving Still: Performative Photography in India explores themes of migration, gender, religion and national identity through the lens of performative photography. The exhibition focuses on the photo-based practices of contemporary artists who are rooted in the diversity of cultures within the country, while at the same time engaging in a global dialogue.
Until January 26, 2020 Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty is the first retrospective of this notable Canadian artist whose work interrogates the mechanisms of display that shape meaning, beauty and desire in our culture. Comprising more than 80 works in a variety of media, Extreme Beauty examines the major themes that have occupied Alexander for more than three decades of her career, including the appropriated image, the artificiality of nature and the seduction of space.
Family Day at the Gallery, February 2019. Photo: Rachel Topham
I have a pair of passes to give away so that you can enjoy the gallery this summer. Here’s how you can enter to win:
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