The description of the ingredients relating to bones and earth was disturbing. Quite interesting symbolism. Not sure if I would try one of these cookies after reading that. Also, pine nuts are gross;)
Yeah I thought that was odd. As if I would want to imagine that I was eating dead people. I'm actually more interesting in pumpkin tortellini though honestly. One thing I notice about European food is how much less sugar and artificial flavor they use. It's like they just don't eat candy ever.
All Saint's Day and All Souls Day are celebrated all around the world. The decoration and preparation that goes into these holidays is definitely interesting. For All Souls Day my Spanish teacher made us Day of the Dead bread, which is a bit different than the cookies here. It's a sweet bread covered with an orange glaze, and you put a plastic baby inside it and supposedly whoever gets the baby will have good luck all year. -Erica H
I love that pretty much every holiday revolves around food or a specific type of goodie! The traditions and rituals that evolve over time always seem to get better and move vibrant over time in my opinion. This looks like a yummy recipe.
This reminds me of the stew my mom ised to make that was just a normal beef stew during halloween but she would cut up all the ingrediants too look like creepy crawlies. She would always sing the old song when we were putting the ingrediants in..."Great green gobs of greasy grimey gofer guts, mutilated monkey feet, hairy pickeled piggy feet, french fried eyeballs swimmin in a pool of guck, yep, thats spooky stew. Yeah a little bizzare but eveyone has there own way of celibrating. haha
Emily Peterson-Wood
P.S. (Intresting Halloween fact, in the acient Peagen religion, the used to throw bones in to a large fire on Halloween night, to remeber and possibly contact the dead which they called the bone fire, which is today translated into bonfire. Pretty neat)
It's interesting how the article's author explicitly says that religion and superstition are intertwined in this culture. Maybe this is somewhat like the cross over of magic and religion. It seems that in Italy certain kinds of "magic" beliefs easily go with local religion.
It's an interesting concept! And I know my dad is born on the day of the dead. I'm sure some people in the magic rhelm take this very seriously. If I'm ever invited to a super natural party i'll avoid their treats :O. - Tiana Kraus
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Any celebration of the dead that involves food instantly is one of my favourites. I love that it has a recipe to accompany it!
I wish Halloween was more like this. I'd rather have cookies than candy anyday!
Tazheem Rubio
The description of the ingredients relating to bones and earth was disturbing. Quite interesting symbolism. Not sure if I would try one of these cookies after reading that. Also, pine nuts are gross;)
Deirdre Adams
Yeah I thought that was odd. As if I would want to imagine that I was eating dead people. I'm actually more interesting in pumpkin tortellini though honestly. One thing I notice about European food is how much less sugar and artificial flavor they use. It's like they just don't eat candy ever.
All Saint's Day and All Souls Day are celebrated all around the world. The decoration and preparation that goes into these holidays is definitely interesting. For All Souls Day my Spanish teacher made us Day of the Dead bread, which is a bit different than the cookies here. It's a sweet bread covered with an orange glaze, and you put a plastic baby inside it and supposedly whoever gets the baby will have good luck all year.
-Erica H
I love that pretty much every holiday revolves around food or a specific type of goodie! The traditions and rituals that evolve over time always seem to get better and move vibrant over time in my opinion. This looks like a yummy recipe.
-Taylor E.
This reminds me of the stew my mom ised to make that was just a normal beef stew during halloween but she would cut up all the ingrediants too look like creepy crawlies. She would always sing the old song when we were putting the ingrediants in..."Great green gobs of greasy grimey gofer guts, mutilated monkey feet, hairy pickeled piggy feet, french fried eyeballs swimmin in a pool of guck, yep, thats spooky stew. Yeah a little bizzare but eveyone has there own way of celibrating. haha
Emily Peterson-Wood
P.S. (Intresting Halloween fact, in the acient Peagen religion, the used to throw bones in to a large fire on Halloween night, to remeber and possibly contact the dead which they called the bone fire, which is today translated into bonfire. Pretty neat)
It's interesting how the article's author explicitly says that religion and superstition are intertwined in this culture. Maybe this is somewhat like the cross over of magic and religion. It seems that in Italy certain kinds of "magic" beliefs easily go with local religion.
Margaret Ransdell-Green
It's an interesting concept! And I know my dad is born on the day of the dead. I'm sure some people in the magic rhelm take this very seriously. If I'm ever invited to a super natural party i'll avoid their treats :O.
- Tiana Kraus
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