Food, Joy & Celebration

The Passover Seder Black-Eyed Peas & Greens: The American South's Hoppin' John Lentils & Cotechino: Italy's New Year of Coins and Abundance Osechi Ryori: Japan's Lacquered Box of Wishes Ozoni: Japan's New Year Morning Soup The Twelve Grapes of Luck (Las Doce Uvas de la Suerte): Spain Toshikoshi Soba: Japan's Year-Crossing Noodles Annaprashana (अन्नप्राशन) — India's First Feeding Ceremony Ìkómọjadé and Naming Ceremonies — Nigeria and West Africa Mǎnyuè (满月) — China's Full-Month Celebration Oshichiya (お七夜) — Japan's Seventh-Night Naming Ceremony Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Arab Diyafa — The Honor of Feeding a Guest Khleb-Sol — The Russian Bread and Salt Welcome Omotenashi — The Japanese Art of Receiving with the Whole Heart Xenia — The Sacred Greek Obligation of Hospitality The Piñata C'est Divin — The French Elevation of Food Language Mashisseo! — Korean Food Appreciation and the Mukbang Phenomenon Oishii! — The Japanese Vocabulary of Food Pleasure Squisito! Buonissimo! Paradisiaco! — The Italian Vocabulary of Food Ecstasy Yislamu Ideiki — The Arabic Tradition of Praising the Cook's Hands La Tomatina — Buñol, Spain The Battle of the Oranges — Ivrea, Italy The Haro Wine Battle — La Rioja, Spain Bangkok, Thailand: The City That Feeds Itself in the Street Istanbul, Turkey: The City Where Street Food Is History Marrakech, Morocco — Djemaa el-Fna: The World's Greatest Food Theater Mexico City, Mexico: The Taquero as Artist Mumbai, India: The City That Feeds Itself in Motion New Orleans, USA: America's Most Food-Obsessed Street The Foods of Abundance & the Theology of First Fruits The Universal Psychology of the Harvest Feast Chuseok — South Korea Crop Over — Barbados Mid-Autumn Festival — China & the Chinese Diaspora Oktoberfest — Munich, Germany Onam — Kerala, South India Pongal — Tamil Nadu, South India Sukkot — The Jewish Festival of Booths Thanksgiving — United States & Canada The Greek Orthodox Easter Table The Italian Easter Table The Russian and Eastern European Easter Basket Bánh Chưng: Vietnam's Tết The Reunion Dinner: The Chinese Spring Festival Banquet Tteokguk: Korea's Seollal Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah — The Jewish Coming-of-Age Feast Quinceañera — The Latin American Fifteenth Birthday Feast Seijin no Hi (成人の日) — Japan's Coming of Age Day The American State Fair Food Competition Atithi Devo Bhava — The Indian Guest-as-God Tradition The Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony — Three Cups of Belonging The Georgian Supra — The World's Most Elaborate Feast Tradition The Lebanese Mezze as Hospitality — The More, the Greater the Welcome Kanpai! Skål! L'chaim! — The Global Toast as Food Joy Ritual Opa! — Greek Plate-Smashing and the Philosophy of Kefi The King Cake and Its Global Family The Cascamorras — Baza and Guadix, Spain The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake — Gloucestershire, England Diwali — The Festival of Lights Erntedankfest — Germany & Austria Gawai Dayak — Sarawak, Borneo The New Yam Festival (Iri Ji) — Igbo People, Nigeria The Haft-Seen Table The Nowruz Feast: Reshteh Polo, Kuku Sabzi, and the Samanu Vigil The Gilroy Garlic Festival The Glastonbury Festival Food Culture The Maine Lobster Festival The Maryland Blue Crab Feast The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival The Indian Wedding Feast — Multi-Day, Multi-Regional, Multi-Everything The Italian Wedding Feast — Confetti, Courses, and Campanilismo The Moroccan Wedding — Three Days, Seven Vegetables, and a Whole Roasted Lamb The Wedding Cake — A History of Flour, Sugar, Power, and Purity Georgian Bereka: The New Year's Bread Indian Vark: The Surface Surprise Japanese Fortune-Telling Foods Risalamande: The Danish Hidden Almond The British Christmas Pudding and Its Hidden Coin "Mangia, Mangia" — The Universal Grammar of Feeding as Love Food Gifts as Emotional Communication — Omiyage, Mithai, and the Casserole of Condolence Indian Mithai — The Currency of Every Occasion Japanese Omiyage — The Gift That Distributes Experience The Casserole of Condolence — Food in Grief and Mourning The Bliss Point — The Science of Food Ecstasy The Galaxidi Flour War — Galaxidi, Greece The Tyrnavos Bourani — Tyrnavos, Greece Eid ul-Fitr — The Feast After Ramadan Andean Hospitality — Chicha and the Reciprocal Cup Chinese Banquet Hospitality — The Rotating Table of Abundance Moroccan Mint Tea — Three Glasses and a Covenant West African Hospitality — The Communal Bowl Matsutake — Japan's Autumn Treasure and the Ritual of the First Mushroom Novello — The Joy of New Olive Oil The First Mango of the Season — South Asian Mango Ecstasy Día de los Muertos — The Feast for the Dead Qingming (清明) — China's Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Meal with Ancestors The Irish Wake — Food, Whiskey, and Stories Against the Dark The Jewish Shiva — The Community Feeds the Mourners The Round Challah & Apples in Honey The Simanim: The Rosh Hashanah Seder of Symbolic Foods The Gilroy Garlic Festival — Gilroy, California, USA The Lopburi Monkey Buffet — Lopburi, Thailand Injera and the Shared Plate — Ethiopian Communal Eating Samgyeopsal — The Communal Construction of the Korean Grill Yakiniku — The Japanese Table Grill and the Pleasure of Communal Cooking The World Custard Pie Championship — Coxheath, Kent, England The Italian-American Feast of the Seven Fishes The Japanese Christmas Cake and KFC Christmas — The Most Successful Food Traditions Created from Nothing The Mexican Christmas Tamales — La Tamalada The Twelve Dishes of Christmas Eve — Eastern European Catholic and Orthodox Traditions Nowruz — Persian New Year and the Haft-Sin Table Pongal — The Harvest Prayer in an Overflowing Pot