Welcome to Part the Second of The Christmas Bird! This sort of accidentally ended up being the history of the turkey. It’s because I’m like sooooooooo thorough omg. (source) The wild turkey, native to Mexico and Central America, was nothing like the bird we know today. They were incredibly intelligent, brightly colored, and lived in [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Day 25: The Christmas Bird (Part the Second)
Posted in Holidays, Poultry, tagged 25 days of christmas, christmas bird, turkey on December 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Day 25: The Christmas Bird (Part the First)
Posted in Holidays, Poultry, tagged 25 days of christmas, goose, peacock, poultry, swan, turkey on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: While I had originally intended for this to be one post, I’ve decided to make it two due to extreme length. I’ll put the bibliography in Part the Second. Enjoy. This year I went to my first real Christmas party. There was food and drink and games and even a little bit of awkwardness. [...]
Day 23: Babingka & Puto Bumbong
Posted in Holidays, Sweets, tagged 25 days of christmas, bibingka, philippines, puto bumbong on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Onward and downward, my friends. Today let’s take a peek at a Filipino Christmas custom, two desserts called bibingka and puto bumbong.
Day 22: Sugarplums
Posted in Holidays, Sweets, tagged 25 days of christmas, comfits, dragee, miss piggy, sugar-plum fairy, sugarplums on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone knows sugarplums. They’re those little….err…what are they? They’re like…plums rolled in sugar? Or fairies, right? They’re fairies that rule the Land of Sweets and do ballet during Christmas………. Right? Not really.
Day 21: Stollen
Posted in Holidays, Sweets, tagged 25 days of christmas, christstollen, dresden, stollen on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Believe it or not, I have another fruitcake type food item to tell you about. Seriously, fruit was like the most coveted Christmas item way back when. Stollen is a German specialty eaten at Christmas that’s related to panettone, fruitcake, King cake, babka, and dreikonigsbrot. All these cakes were developed in medieval times and were [...]
Day 20: Gingerbread
Posted in Holidays, Sweets, tagged 25 days of christmas, gingerbread, lebkucen, pain d'epices on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I love gingerbread. I love the cookie kind, the cakey kind, and everything in between. When I went to sleep away camp my favorite dessert was gingerbread cake slopped with whipped cream. It was the best day of the week. When you think about gingerbread at Christmas, the first thing that probably comes to mind [...]
Day 19: Communion Wafers & Apples
Posted in Holidays, tagged 25 days of christmas, apples, dievo pyragi, lithuania, paplotelis, plokstainels, plotkeles on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The most important part of the Christmas season for Lithuanians is the Christmas Eve supper, called Kūčios. The supper starts when the first light of the first star is seen in the sky, because it is believed to be the Star of Bethlehem. Prior to eating, two rituals are preformed. The first is breaking communion [...]
Day 18: Lefse
Posted in Bread, Holidays, tagged 25 days of christmas, lefse, norway on December 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s on its way… It’s coming… Christmas is one week away. I made that. I have no tie in at all. [crickets]
Day 17: La Vigilia
Posted in Fish, Holidays, tagged 25 days of christmas, la vigilia, seven fish feast on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
La Vigilia di Natale, also known as the Feast of Seven Fishes, is the Italian tradition of eating an extensive, seafoody dinner before Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. Ok, not necessary the Italian tradition. It’s actually more common in the southern and Adriatic parts of Italy, celebrated in the regions between the island of Sicily [...]
