I am writing a cookbook for my job, and we are centering it around cultural holidays. I would appreciate any suggestions for holidays that we could feature, especially if you know of any lesser-known holidays or holidays where traditional food is served.
2006-08-10 07:48:11 · 9 answers · asked by Cunning Linguist 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I celebrate Kwanza which is an African American Holiday celebrating family, comunity and culture of the African. It's celebrated from Deb. 26th - Jan 1. The feast on the last day is called the "Karamu". Typically you would put together dishes that would have incorporated ingredients related to Africa and particularly ingrediants that were introduced to America by Africans. One in particular that I make which is also a perfect desert is called that "Banna Nut Coconut Cake". http://cake.allrecipes.com/AZ/BnnNtCcntCk.asp. This cake is extremely good... and it might serve well to your cultural cookbook.
2006-08-10 09:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by Cherry 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try looking at a pagan calandar. We have eight sabbats in a year, all *little* holidays. Lughnasad (Aug 1) was the most recent and the first of the harvest festivals, the christianized version of it is known as Lammas (which translates into "loaf mass") where the tradition was to bake bread and take it to church (if you were christian) or leave it as an offering (if you were pagan).
Mabon is next and is Sept. 21st, then of course the well known Samhain (Halloween)...
2006-08-10 09:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kitten 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My family is from Germany, and we have a tradition at Christmas. I am not sure if it is because of the culture or just a family tradition that has been done for many generations, but we have peaches (cooked in this syrupy stuff) with pound cake for breakfast. It is absolutely delicious.
2006-08-10 10:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Germany Easter, Christmas are the well known holidays
2006-08-10 07:55:00 · answer #4 · answered by Susanne R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many Jewish holidays. Here's some of them with the traditional food served. Probably you can find info on any of them by just googling the term.
Purim: hamantashen
Passover: matzah, charoset
Shabbat: challah, gefilte fish
Shavuot: blintzes
Chanukah: latkes, sufganiot
2006-08-10 12:11:17 · answer #5 · answered by fez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not exactly holidays, but more like cultural festivals. filipinos love to eat especially during fiestas, so there are a lot of food. some festivals are the sinulog (cebu), ati-atihan (kalibo, aklan), panagbenga (baguio city), pahiyas (san isidro, quezon province), masskara, dinagyang (i forgot what provinces they are) and many more.
as for christmas, it starts in september for filipinos but we dohave the misa de gallo for 9 days starting from december 16 until christmas day. people go to mass at 4am and the popular food there would be bibingka ang puto bumbong---perfect for cool december nights. :-)
2006-08-11 18:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by spanish_armada23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in india we have many festivals like uttarayan , dusshera, diwali, rakshabandhan, holi and navrati and there are different food we eat if you want to know more about it email it to me in which you are interested because every day it is a festive day in some way or the other but which i have listed above are major and i will email you the recepie
my email address
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2006-08-13 07:59:50 · answer #7 · answered by Kanan M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India is a country where lot of colorful festivals and holidays are there .
2006-08-10 10:35:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas,Kwanza,Thanksgiving etc.
2006-08-10 12:12:44 · answer #9 · answered by Stacey J. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋