So I have 3 children from age 4-10. I want to teach them about other cultures through food. We are mutts so we only understand food.
Basically I was wanting to know what holidays you celebrate, and what food is associated with them if any. Holidays like we have Thanksgiving in 'Murica.
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Where are your roots from are is to too diluted to name a single country
Here we have Chandeleur on the 02/02 where we eat crêpes (pic related). It's kinda like flat, thin, big pancakes and kids usually love those
We have Maslenitsa in the end of winter. We makes lots of pancakes every day during the week, on the last day we burn a wooden woman, so it symbolises that winter is dead.
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I'm German, Irish, English, Scottish, Norwegian, and French. Wife is Scottish, Norwegian, German, and Dutch. We are mutts so we don't really have roots, but most of the traditions we currently follow are entirely Anglo and Germanic.
Kek. That sounds like fun, and will be an educational experience. As we are a Protestant family that will teach my children a bit more not only about European traditions but may peak their interest in Catholicism.
>Another pancake holiday
>Burning shit
That sounds like fun, and kiddos will love that. I may Americanize it a bit and we'll instead fill the wooden woman with Tannerite and blow her up, but first year will be traditional.
Usually when we are kids we are cooking those the challenge with your parents is to be able to flipbit perfectly in the pan, it's always a good family time. Chandeleur is at first an old pagan celebration for when the daylight is getting longer. So usually those crêpes represent the sun (golden and round).
I just quickly read a wiki article, and dug in a bit and read about the pagan stuff, which is just like Christmas. As they get older and if I did my job as a dad right, hopefully they will seek to learn that themselves.
In Chile we have a traditional drink for Christmas called "monkey tail".