France's 'patriotic' banquets rile hard left

The feasting phenomenon run by Le Canon Français has become a hot political issue.

@samuelpepys

A generous offering of fine dishes, Sam, truly glorious. Quite an achievement to get it all done in your house! Your friends will have enjoyed the event.

You invite your friends to celebrate the success of the dangerous operation that removed your bladder stone, five years earlier, and I celebrate with you. Looking mortality in the eye changes our outlook on things, doesn't it. Most people forget the lesson once the danger is over. But you keep reminding yourself of the fact that every day alive is a gift, and for that I love you, Sam.

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I don't want to spoil it for Pepys, so I won't ask him about "a leg of mutton boiled". If boiled here means cooked in boiling water, the mutton clearly is being ruined. But perhaps he means slow-cooked or baked? I do appreciate that preparing all those varied meats and pies in his own family kitchen all at the same time may have simply left his cook with no space in the oven or over the fire.

#Pepys #mortality #feasts #mutton

Bet ya don’t think of #India when you think of #Christmas do ya? Not a lot of Christians there but folks from different #religions join in the fun. It is called Bada Din or “big day”. Like in the US, there are #feasts, masses, and gifts. Man, I know those feasts are bangin’! I miss the #food my Indian coworkers brought in during my tech days. Ohhhh the sweets… #faoulife
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#Esther skillfully welcomed #Xerxes and #Haman to successive #feasts. In between the feasts, Xerxes was reminded of Mordecai's exposure of an assassination plot against the king. Xerxes then charged Haman to honor Mordecai.

At the second feast, Haman's plot was exposed to Xerxes. When Xerxes saw his favorite queen had been endangered, he grew angry. Haman was executed on the gallows he built for Mordecai.

An ordinary evening in the village! #Россия #Russia #Feasts #Meal #еда #застолья

Ralphie's mom's braised red cabbage was featured in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story. I blogged the recipe, and just before Thanksgiving and Christmas, that post gets a lot of hits.

https://leisureguy.ca/2008/12/02/ralphies-moms-braised-red-cabbage/

#food #recipe #holldays #feasts

Ralphie’s Mom’s Braised Red Cabbage

This is the dish featured in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story: Ralphie’s Mom’s Braised Red Cabbage • 1 medium-size red cabbage, thinly sliced [let it rest 45 minutes after slicing &#821…

Later On

Greetings of the September (Southward) Equinox, which is the time that the sun crosses the projection of the earth’s equator (at 180° ecliptic longitude) into the southern hemisphere, and enters the sign of Libra, the cardinal sign of Air.  According to NOAA, it is the beginning of astronomical autumn in the northern hemisphere, although meteorological autumn begins on September 1.  The September Equinox is, thus, typically referred to as the “autumnal equinox” in the northern hemisphere. Some traditions hold that the autumnal equinox is not autumn’s beginning, but its midpoint; with its beginning being the cross-quarter point at the beginning of August. 

The moment of equinox occurs tomorrow (Sunday, September 22) at  12:43 UTC. In the contiguous continental U.S., this will occur tomorrow between 5:43 am PDT and 8:43 am EDT.

“There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.”

– AL II:3

“Each element — fire, earth, air, water, and Spirit — possesses its own Nature, Will, and Magical Formula. Each one may then have its appropriate ritual. Many such in crude form are described in The Golden Bough of Dr. J.G. Frazer, the Glory of Trinity!

“In particular the entry of the Sun into the cardinal signs of the elements at the Equinoxes and Solstices are suitable for festivals.”

“The difference between ‘rituals’ and ‘feasts’ is this: by the one a particular form of energy is generated, while there is a general discharge of one’s superfluous force in the other. Yet a feast implies periodical nourishment.”

– Crowley’s “New Comment” on AL II:36

Wishing an outstanding autumn to my friends in the northern hemisphere and a superb spring to my friends in the southern hemisphere.

https://sabazius.oto-usa.org/equinox-greetings-2/

#feasts

Equinox Greetings | The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius | Essays, speeches, commentary, and rituals by the National Grand Master of OTO USA