Ould Lammas Fair Ould Lammas Fair The Auld Lammas Fair is a traditional fair held in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland every year on the last Monday and Tuesday of August. It is associated with the Lammas harvest festival. The fair has been running for nearly 400 years, dating back to the 17th century. Various goods are traditionally sold at the fair. These include livestock and traditional foods such as Yellowman, a local variant of honeycomb and dulse, a type of edible seaweed. A ballad written by local shopkeeper and bog-oak carver John Henry MacAuley enhanced the local fame of the fair. MacAuley
Edible Book Festival took Sir Francis Bacon's famous words quite literally: 'Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and the other few to be chewed and digested.'" In 2011, the British newspaper "Metro" ran a story that they would begin producing the newspaper on an edible "Sweet tasting paper" claiming to bring customers "news in the best possible taste". The newspaper later clarified this was nothing more than an April Fools' joke. Edible Book Festival The International Edible Book Festival is an annual event usually held on or around April 1, which is also known as Edible Book Day. The