They're worth viewing in their entirety, and I wish I could install myself in a seat for an end-to-end feast of them all.
As the fasting ends feasting begins, with Asia's Muslim population -- the largest in the world at nearly 1.6 billion -- leading the way.
In the end, the feast was allowed to stay just the way it has for decades.
Mr. Faveau likes to end the feast with homemade chocolate truffles, each filled with a cherry that he has marinated in Armagnac for six months.
(And what better to end the feast than with an old-time Southern cake from Nancie's Southern Cakes?) Visit Nancie's website and blog here.
After all, counting Christmases is a way to catalogue time; marking the year's end by feasting, indulging and drinking to excess, until we are practically sick, is a tried and tested tradition.
Both exhibition and catalog brim with facts gleaned from contemporary records: private journals and letters; inventories of dowries; descriptions of days on end of feasts, festivities and public processions; details of who wore what and how much it cost.
Depending on the chef's mood, you could end up feasting on Veneto specialities such as chicken liver risotto, followed by a bollito of chicken, wild duck and beef with fiery horseradish and garlicky parsley pesto, or a delicate vegetarian menu using baby artichokes, courgette flowers, radicchio and the distinctive cardoons that grow in the lagoon's sandy, salty soil.
That was the year we tossed out the inedible mess and ended up feasting on a wild mix of walnut-studded cranberry sauce and General Tso's chicken.
In between those are parties among work colleagues (from first to current job), your core set of friends (and there could be a few), childhood best friends from high school and a few more year-end holiday feasts here and there.
At the end of the feast, the broth in the pot is shared.
