Mia Taylor » Events/Festivals http://miataylor.com Writer, Foodie and Social Media Maven Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anatolian Food and Culture Festival http://miataylor.com/2010/07/06/anatolian-food-and-culture-festival/ http://miataylor.com/2010/07/06/anatolian-food-and-culture-festival/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:53:15 +0000 Mia Taylor http://miataylor.com/?p=901 For Mother’s Day my mother, who is often mistaken as my older sister, and I made our way down to Irvine to spend the day eating delicious kabob, watching cultural performances and buying trinkets from a slew of Turkish merchants at the Anatolian Food and Culture Festival.

The festival was equipped with culturally themed bounce houses for children, a mile-long wall of the chronology of Turkish history for the elders, historically dressed festival hosts and, well, food- for me.

Get me near any kind of food and I’ll eat it. Get me to a food festival and, ladies and gentlemen, we have one over-stuffed, slightly paralyzed Mia.

After inducing cataclysmic paralysis, I decided that there was no way to digest all the goodness I had just eaten unless I kicked my feet up and enjoyed some traditional Turkish dance.

I looked kinda like these guys:

Ok, maybe not exactly, but you get the idea.

After a bit more shopping and wandering around aimlessly, it was time to head out. With memories of Istanbul ’06 near and dear to my heart, it was tough to finally call it a day.

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