People’s Picnic
Local Food for Local People.
Hove Lawns: all sunny weekend.
The Brighton Food Festival has so far mainly been lots of underwhelming nothingness.
Food Miles, Buy Local, yeah, yeah, I get it. But it’s really nothing more than an overpriced market. London Road market has more to offer and it is open all year. If I was to do my weekly shop at the Food Festival stalls on New Road, all of the carbon that wasn’t footprinted by the food would have been replaced by green house gasses released in the minting of all the extra coins needed to pay for it.
However, the People’s Picnic is free. Bring food and share with strangers on Hove Lawns. The Labour Party are in town and I expect to see them down there enjoying this socialist sandwich experience.
Update: When I got there I couldn’t anything other than the same-old foodstalls you would find at any festival. Where was the Great Picnic? But I did manage to snaffle enough free samples to make it worthwhile. And I discovered the pleasantly odd Circus Kinetica.
