Global Festival Foods: How Humanity Celebrates with Deep-Fried Chaos and Cultural Overindulgence
**The Global Gastronomic Circus: Festival Foods and the Beautiful Chaos of Human Celebration** In the grand theater of human civilization, nothing quite captures our species’ peculiar relationship with tradition, excess, and questionable dietary decisions quite like festival foods. From the deep-fried cardiac time bombs of American state fairs to the fermented shark that Icelanders pretend…