Foods During Celebrations

    Celebrations

During the festives seasons,all kinds of different foods are introduce to the people from around the glode.Here are several kinds of foods you can find during the festive seasons.

 

         Type of Foods During Celebrations            

  • Birthdays

The birthday cake has been an integral part of the birthday tradition in Western cultures since the middle of the 19th century. The cake, or sometimes a pastry or dessert, is served to a person on his or her birthday, and is often decorated with small novelty candles, with the person's name and/or a message of congratulations inscribed with icing. The phrase "Happy Birthday" did not appear on birthday cakes until the song Happy Birthday to You was popularized in the early 1900s. Novelty candles are often used. Novelty candles are often used. Tradition holds that the person with the birthday may make a wish, which will come true if all the candles can be blown out in one breath. As with Christmas puddings there are various traditions of coins or Touch Pieces being added for good luck.

  • Christmas

During Christmas,people tend to have turkey as their food.Turkey have been the intergral part of the Christmas tradition in the western cultures.

 

  • Chinese New Year

At Chinese New Year a reunion dinner is held on New Year's Eve where members of the family, near and far, get together for celebration. The New Year's Eve dinner is very large and traditionally includes chicken. is included, but not eaten up completely (and the remaining stored overnight), as the Chinese phrase (nián nián you yú, or "every year there is fish/leftover") is a homophone for phrases which could mean "be blessed every year" or "have profit every year", since "yú" is also the pronunciation for "surplus". A type of black hair-like algae, pronounced "fat choy" in Cantonese, is also featured in many dishes since its name sounds similar to "prosperity". Hakka will serve "kiu nyuk" ?? and "ngiong tiu fu". Because the things sound alike, the belief is that having one will lead to the other, like the old child's aphorism "step on a crack, break your mother's back".

 

  • Halloween

Whether you're planning a blood-curdling haunted house, a costume contest or a pumpkin-carving party, we've got the know-how and recipes to fit.The ghosts are out tonight! Feed those hungry spirits with homemade treats. Dress up your own goblins with homemade makeup.

 

  • Hari Raya Aidilfitri

Usually on the eve of the celebrations, family members, especially mothers and housewives, will be busy preparing food, cakes, sweets, biscuits and various delicacies to be served on the day of Hari Raya. Delicacies such as ketupat or rice cake and a meat cuisine called rendang are among the most famous cuisines that are served during this day. Other family members will help in other chores such as decorating and cleaning up the house.

 

  • Thanksgiving

The centerpiece of contemporary Thanksgiving in the United States is a large meal, starring a large roasted turkey. All of the dishes in the traditional American version of Thanksgiving Dinner are made from foods native to North America, according to tradition the Pilgrims received these foods from the American Indians. However, many of the classic traditions attributed to the first Thanksgiving are actually myths introduced later.

 

  • Weddings

A wedding cake is the traditional cake served to the guests at a wedding reception after a wedding. In modern western culture, it is usually a large cake, multi-layered or tiered, and heavily decorated with icing, occasionally over a layer of marzipan or fondant, topped with a small statue representing the couple. Other common motifs include doves, gold rings and horseshoes, the latter symbolising good luck. Achieving a dense, strong cake that can support the decorations while remaining edible can be considered the epitome of the baker's art and skill.