This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival had just two rather than the usual three cultural themes: China and Kenya. The Festival ran into some trouble with NPS over new park landscaping concerns, but everything seems to have been ironed out for at least the next five years.
Sadly we missed the Kenyan food due to long lines, but the Chinese food had real ma po tofu, the kind with ground pork and Sichuan peppercorns in it.