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Pumpkins With Personality At The Tunbridge World's Fair

Posted By on Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:20 PM


My favorite part of any fair is checking out the award-winning pies, pickles and oversize gourds. I also have a soft spot for food that comes to life, possibly ignited by the iconic French's Mustard commercials of my youth. So when I dropped in on the Tunbridge World's Fair this weekend, I was pretty blissed out to stumble across an entire wall of pumpkins, squash and apples reanimated by kids. 

Mr. Freckles, Nellie the Duck and the Flying Gourd were happy to pose for photos. The others took some convincing, but I'm particularly fond of the minimalist apple-lime duo.









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Corin Hirsch

Corin Hirsch was a Seven Days food writer 2011 through 2016. She was also a dining critic and drinks columnist at Newsday from 2017 to 2022, and contributes to The Guardian, Wine Enthusiast and other publications. She’s spoken often on colonial era drinking and is the author of Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New...

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