Barbour's General Store sale, such as barley candy and dulse (edible seaweed harvested locally). Barbour's General Store Barbour's General Store is a museum and tourist HUB in Saint John, New Brunswick. It is an authentic 19th-century general store building, preserved and used to recreate a Victorian-era educational experience for visitors. It is located at the intersection of King Street and Prince William Street in the Trinity Royal Historic Preservation Area in the city's uptown. On August 22, 2015 the shop was re-opened to the public as a functioning business and local information centre. The museum was founded in 1967. The store itself was
Edible Book Festival the International Edible Book Festival is held to commemorate "the birthday of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), noted for his book "Physiologie du goût", a witty meditation on food", though April Fools' Day is also related as "the perfect day to eat your words and play with them as the 'books' are consumed on the day of the event". (cf. "The Phantom Tollbooth", as regards eating one's words.) The participation rules per a related site are: In 2005, the festival was a joint initiative of forum book art and the Museum of Work, Hamburg, where pastry chefs made edible