WVBR Goes Garlic (October 22 2005)

Today, WVBR had a remote broadcast from Ithaca's farmers market. The garlic festival was in full swing by the time WVBR showed up. Men in stilts pranced around in garlic suits, garlic bread saturated the air, and garlic soup was served to warm the chill out of the cold ithaca fall day. As I walked around sampling garlic eats I made quick friends with one of the vendors who let me use her mortar and pistol to mash garlic cloves for a spread she was making (basil, olive oil, garlic). Besides garlic, hot cider, corn fritters, samosa, cambodian food, hot chocolate, breakfast burritos, and cuban sandwhices, gigantic carrots, and celeriac, WVBR was blasting out the tunes the only way we know how.