Father’s Day in Catalunya is celebrated on the
feast day of Sant Josep, as I suppose it is in all historically Catholic
countries. This kind of makes sense to
me but kind of not. Joseph wasn’t
exactly Jesus’s father. I guess he was a
stepfather. He was married to Jesus’s
mother and he raised the boy. Doubts
aside, Sant Joseph, which falls on 19 March, IS Father’s Day and I celebrated
in a limited way by going to visit the fair.
The Fira de Sant Josep in Figueres is also the
Fira del Brunyol. A brunyol is a kind of
donut, but without a hole. It is dough
that is fried and sprinkled with sugar and eaten during the days before Easter. I have nothing against deep fried dough
covered with sugar, but I didn’t buy any brunyols because they were very
expensive. So I amused myself by walking
up and down all the aisles and only buying something to take home for my lunch:
a spinach pastry from a Palestinian stand and humus from a Berber stand. The humus was the best I’ve ever had. Many of the stands had handcrafts, a few had stuff
made in China or Guatemala, and off to the side was an antique/collectibles
fair. But the best was the food stands. Overall it was colorful and tasty.
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