The families there have fun going to the special event in church. After they went to Misa de Galo, the great dinner begins. There is chicken or roasted turkey with rice and salad typically for dinner. Pupusas and tamales can be served as well. Their beverages are soda, wine, beer, and horchata.
They celebrate New Year’s Eve with barbecues, and fireworks, they also eat a spoonful of lentil for luck, and carry money in their pockets for adventure and riches. They celebrate Easter by having huasos accompany the priests.
Nowadays the traditional festivals are not the signals of the culture and history anymore. There become the tools of the business people who do not have conscience. For New Year, many people chose to go outside to have the New Year eve dinner, and they do not make dumplings any longer. When they go outside, the business people tried to names their dishes with beautiful implied meanings, and then raise the price to earn more money. In the mid-autumn festival, the moon cake became a fancy gift but not a little cake that use for remembering relatives who are far away from the family.
KABBALAT SHABBAT the family begins shabbat by attending the synagogue for the evening service they are engaging in kabbalat shabbat when arriving home, the husband then blesses his wife and children by reciting kiddush (prayer) for them over a cup of wine THE SHABBAT MEAL the challot (special bread) is uncovered, blessed and distributed the shabbat meal is then eaten. It is usually cholet, a form of stew SHABBAT WORSHIP at the conclusion of the meal, a special prayer is said the birkat-ha-mazon on saturdays, there is more worship at the synagogue, more meals and visiting of friends and family there is also an afternoon synagogue service and the final shabbat meal THE HAVDALAH the havdalah or shabbat prayer is the recited which ends shabbat havdalah is a separation or division it involves: a blessing over wine, a blessing over spices, a blessing over 2 twisted candles. The shabbat has
The festival celebrates the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a changed Christian Indian. Then you have the celebration 9 days before Christmas called “Las Posadas” which honors the arrival of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. Mexican Americans celebrate these days with their family members or with strangers. They
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is a celebration of life, a festival of gratitude! In my home, Thanksgiving is a precious time when my family gets together and the women share the kitchen cooking and bonding over an extravagant meal. The men gather together in the den and connect on a deeper level over a spirited football game, cheering and cursing at the television screen. The children play games and run through the house. Thanksgiving is a time when the house can come truly alive.
Traditionally it is the last day that people can indulge before their period of penance or Lent. During Mardi Gras, or carnival, the partiers would eat all the meat, eggs milk and cheese to prepare for the fasting of lent. The festivity incorporates the roots of Louisianans, European, African and Caribbean decent. The carnival itself involves different costumes and that are playful, comical, satirical, grotesque, theatrical, and serious. All of the different displays come together to form a very unique holiday celebration.
Each band wears different colors and features cheerleaders. Fiesta Catracha takes place this same day: typical Honduran foods such as beans, tamales, baleadas, cassava with chicharron, and tortillas are offered. On Christmas Eve, the people reunite with their families and close friends to have dinner, then give out presents at midnight. In some cities fireworks are seen and heard at midnight. On New Year's Eve there is food and "cohetes", fireworks and festivities.
We attended a Greek Orthodox Festival and while we were there we watched people dance to Taverna-Style music, we ate Gyros, Dolmas which is herbed rice and beef rolled in a grape leaf, and we also had Keftethes (Greek meatballs), and Spanakopita (spinach in filo). That day we met some of the nicest people that made us feel a part of their family. By attending community events to celebrate different cultures can bring people to together which could be the beginning of people in the United States getting along with each other instead of being prejudice against one
There is all sorts of food there; fried chicken, chicken salad, regular salad, chips and dip, fruit, some sort of dessert, and all different kinds of drinks. It is delicious. After everyone becomes full, we play cornhole and chat until it is time to go to the game. We walk to the stadium and find our seats, which are in the upper deck near the 50 yard line. We always get there before Carolina comes out of the tunnel because that is one of the best parts of the game.