Monday, February 20, 2012

King cake

  • Colette Berube, of Vernon, came to Connecticut from France in 1954 at the age of 19. Staying true to her culture, Berube is one of the few French bakers in the state who make a traditional king cake for Mardi Gras.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Or, Why is that plastic baby Jesus in my cake? This site takes a look at why we eat a King Cake between Kings Day, which is Jan. 6 and not to be confused with Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- and Mardi Gras, which is Tuesday.
  • (Everything Alabama Blog)
  • February 20, 2012 -- Chef Toni Marie Cox from Toni Patisserie Cafe makes a traditional King Cake just in time for Mardi Gras. The King Cake is a New Orleans tradition thats baked with a small plastic baby or trinket hidden inside.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • Participants Include: Sonya "the Black Widow" Thomas, Bob "Notorious B.O.B." Shoudt, and the current king cake champion Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti and more.
  • (NJ.com)
  • But just how that baby got in the cake is a strange tale – featuring a mysterious traveling salesman — thats worthy of the best Mardi Gras lore and ritual. First, lets talk a little king cake history.
  • (NPR News)
  • The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with Ganz USA LLC, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., is recalling about 2,100 Dancing Teapots in the United States and 170 in Canada.
  • (Orlando Sentinel (blog))
  • Pox on the anti-baby attitude that sometimes sneaks into the South Mississippi Carnival season.
  • (Biloxi Sun Herald)
  • A few months later, my daughter gorged herself on Gemmas blueberry marshmallows while cavorting on the grounds of Tecolote Farms.
  • (Austin Chronicle)
  • Others, like the alligator sausage, I could never quite get used to. But the thing I loved best was the Mardi Gras king cake.
  • (Asbury Park Press)
  • When I moved to New Orleans, I discovered that this was a city that - at least in terms of food - was a world to itself. Many of its foods had little in common with those of the South I grew up in. Nearly everything was new and exciting and exotic.
  • (Hattiesburg American)

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