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| This Year's King Cake |
Interesting that in French and Italian the day is Mardi Gras and Martedi Grasso "Fat Tuesday" and the celebration is Carnival: carne-vale (farewell to meat). It is a holiday to celebrate and appreciate the human, sensual, appetitive aspects of our lives.
But the Anglo-Saxon Shrove Tuesday has no implication for revelry or feasting or partying. It's all about confessing sins and being shriven. Sounds so depressing.
So, if you prefer, have a Mardi Gras feast ... for tomorrow we (supposedly) fast for 40 days. And so, the earthly and the spiritual and the yin and the yang of life.
5 comments:
Hey, "Shrove Tuesday" may not be as exciting or carnal as Mardi Gras, but there's PANCAKES! Woo hoo!
I've never eaten a King Cake (or even seen one in real life) but I'd love to have a slice. The slice with the Baby Jesus in it! Nom nom nom
I'm drooling over that king cake. Let's NOT party like Anglo Saxons.
Pancakes for Marti Gras! Why not.
No baby Jesus in my cake...had several but over the years they went with cakes and never returned. Who ever gets the baby is supposed to throw the next King Cake party all through the Carnival season which begins Jan 6th, Epiphany. It's all Catholic stuff...No baby for another reason: don't want to get sued if someone breaks a tooth or swallows it!
Hey, I'm WASP and proud. PANCAKES RULE!
Except for the King Cake, no party here.
p.s. it took me more than 45 minutes to get blogger to let me reply to a comment!!!!!!!!!
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