Joe Shaw, a city councilman in Huntington Beach, said the tradition of gathering around fire pits at night "epitomizes the California dream of so many".
This shared experience of gathering around a fire to cook and eat communally is a fundamental illustration of how we've come together to enjoy food from the earliest days of humanity.
The festivity consists of gathering around the fire and socializing.
"We started with the idea of campers gathering around a fire together in the wilderness, and embarking on this psychedelic experience after that".
Committing to another person for the rest of your life can be an overwhelming thought for many but if you decide to tie the knot at Burning Man, the week-long desert gathering of music, arts, and fire, you're definitely starting things on the right foot, right?
In some societies, for instance, the gathering of the clay and firing materials may have been the work of the men, while the women may have fashioned and decorated the pots.
Soldiers from the Kachin People Militia, operating under the umbrella of the Kachin Independence Army, are gathering around a fire.
Addressing a gathering of conservatives in Iowa that fired the starting gun on the race for the Republican candidacy, Walker said he had shown that "common-sense conservative reforms actually work", in a Democratic-leaning state won twice by President Barack Obama.
He sees the holiday as a unifier— South Africans of all backgrounds putting aside their differences and gathering around fires to grill in harmony.
Considerable mystery still surrounds what drove US-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse, Tashfeen Malik, 29, a native of Pakistan, to open fire on a gathering of employees of the San Bernardino Health Department last Wednesday.
Fourteen people were killed when Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire on a gathering of county employees.
