Religious holidays and food
Mexico
| Christmas Eve: It’s one of the most important holidays in Mexiko. That night all the family meet together to have the dinner. They used to eat turkey, salda, pasta, and two famous dishes called BACALAO and ROMERITOS. They also used to drink SIDRA, natural drinks like lemonade, or horchata, and the PONCHE, and also coke. As desert there are cakes, ice cream, but there are als lots of ttypical deserts which you can choose. |
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| Calndelaria It’s another trataditional holiday. Everyone who has found a baby in the bread (picture), must bring something to eat on de February 2th that is were this holiday take place. The most famous dishes are the tamales and the hot chocolate. |
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| Birthdays: People used to build a piNata and full it with candies, and also fruits like orange and peanuts most. And during the celebrations, people used to eat TAMALES, jelly and obviously cake. |
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| Day of Deaths Mexican people celebrate it in November 2th. That day, families used to build an ALTAR, that are tables with a picture in the centre of the one who died, and his /her favourite food, like fruits, typical candies, drinks, and his/her favourite objects around. Also in that holiday, everybody eats “Pan de Muerto (deaths bread) that is a bred covered with sugar and tastes really delicious. |
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Austria
| Christmas Eve: In Austria we eat mostly fish on Christmas Eve. But some people eat also turkey or other food. We have also christmas trees with lots of sweets. |
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| Easter: To Easter we eat colored eggs, bread, ham and sweets which parents hid in the gardens for their children. |
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| St. Martin (Martini): We celebrate this day on november 11th. Lots of people eat a cooked goose. The children (most in the Kindergarten) make latern and go throw the town and sing songs (”Ich geh mit meiner Laterne…”). |
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| Birthday: To birthdays we eat a cake and the person who has birthday gets presents. (–> Food at Parties) |
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Emilia sagte,
Dezember 5, 2006 um 4:45 Uhr nachmittags
Me parece realmente interesante aprender sobre los platos que comen en ocasiones especiales en México, pienso que es gran diversion de hay una pinata en mi cumpleaños. Es realmente bueno que hay muchos cuadros alli, porque hacen el artículo mucho más interesante. De todas formas, buen homepage, felicitaciones, Emilia