“When I hear Lent I always think of lentils” I told Francesca when we discussed Fastenzeit, the 40 days between carneval and Eastern.
In the catholic household of my upbringing, lentil soup was the staple diet for a Friday, the day on which religon demanded not to eat any meat. We ate it with Wiener Würstchen, a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Lent’
March 14, 2009
On Lent, lentils and Maultaschen
February 14, 2009
Fasching, Fasnet or Carneval – Licence to Run Wild
“With this topic” I warned Francesca, ” werde ich vom Hölzchen aufs Stöckchen kommen-I won´t be able to tell a straight tale“. No tradition is typical for Germany as a whole. We even can´t agree on a common name. Therefore, in this blog I talk about Fasnet, Fasnacht or Carneval, different names for the same [...]
lettersfromeurope
truegerman
