Pairing this natural beauty with the unrivaled local cuisine — from decadent Michelin-starred feasts to delectable bite-sized pintxos (Basque-style tapas) — may leave your head spinning.
Around the world, Christmas celebrations enable families and friends to gather, feasts to be devoured, and for love between couples to be rekindled or to blossom.
Laurent Blanc was able to start all three for the first time on Tuesday and, admittedly against weak opposition, they whet the appetite for feasts to come.
Apple trees heavy with fruit, fat pumpkins waiting to be chosen at the farm; autumn harvests, with their reckless abundance and promise of feasts to come, suggest an enduring North American heritage more than those of any other season.
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Since Dionysus once held place as the god of vegetation and the vine, and the goat was believed sacred to him, it has been conjectured that tragedy originated in fertility feasts to commemorate the harvest and the vintage and the associated ideas of the death and renewal of life.
