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January 27, 2009

How to Talk Mardi Gras or The Language of Mardi Gras

There’s a whole host of new words to learn if you are new to Mardi Gras. The kind folks at the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau supplied us with the following Mardi Gras dictionary.

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January 23, 2009

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January 15, 2009

King Cake – A Primer (Includes Recipe for King Cake)

If you wait till Fat Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras, you’ll miss out on weeks worth of parties. Mardi Gras actually kicks off on Jan. 6, a day known as Twelfth Night, or King’s Day, in honor of the arrival of the biblical three kings to the Nativity manger, twelve days after Jesus’ birth. Twelfth Night has been celebrated for centuries and at some point, a cake was included as part of the tradition, and was referred to as King Cake, in honor of the three kings.

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