Meet some of the last papyrus makers in Egypt keeping a 5,000-year-old craft alive | Still Standing
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The overwhelmingly White image of beer culture erases a much longer, far-reaching narrative of Black brewing
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The last remaining juke joints in America: The future of these blues clubs is at a crossroads
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Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
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The history of Jews, Chinese food, and Christmas, explained by a rabbi
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How one woman is sharing Kazakhstan’s national instrument and cultural dress on Instagram
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Living legacy
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In Louisiana, Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity
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Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium
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Kulning – The often high-pitched herding calls of the Nordic fäbod culture; a group of labor songs developed out of needs rather than musical expression
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Whale meat has seen an increase in sales this year in Norway – according to local whalers, demand has outstripped supply for the first time in half a decade
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An Icelandic ritual for wellbeing – when Iceland reopened its public swimming pools, the nation was so delighted that queues formed outside pools at midnight
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Swedes have long embraced their version of staycations: hemester – Covid-19 travel restrictions and remote working are reshaping the tradition
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The mesmerizing geometry of Malaysia’s most complex cakes
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A small collection of novels — some great, some not so great — appeared in just the right form at just the right moment to effect lasting changes
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
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The ways that a cheese can go extinct, and the cheesemakers who are working to save them
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The oldest restaurant in (almost) every country
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Reclaiming Indian food from the white gaze
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The autumn ritual of wild horse herding in Iceland's Kolbeinsdalur Valley
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Did the Italians actually teach the French the art of the vinaigrette?
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America’s ‘fried chicken war’
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What happens when a brown chef cooks white food?
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In Henningsvær a timeless ritual continues to play out as it has for centuries – the harvesting of a most local and seasonal delicacy: cod tongues
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The history of Spain’s ‘Insured for Fire’ building signs
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Sweden's Melodifestivalen is celebrating its 60th year – why a national Eurovision show won global fans
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Immigrants from over twenty countries are taking part in a program that will help them develop, set up, and operate a food truck specialising in food from their home countries
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A shot before last call: Capturing New Orleans’s vanishing Black bars
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Icelanders celebrate Bolludagur – the cream-filled buns are generally made of choux pastry and topped with a chocolate or caramel glaze
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Finland's centuries-old pre-Easter buns get a modern makeover – as Shrove Tuesday approaches, cafés and bakeries are gearing up to sell more of the popular seasonal dessert
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Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' creates hygge away from home – the tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows
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This is taco nation
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Scandinavian Airlines clarifies an advert intended to highlight the role of travel, immigration and cultural diversity after it was pilloried online by far-right and nationalist groups
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How IKEA became Sweden's national brand
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Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
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The origins of American gun culture
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Why Japan celebrates Christmas with KFC
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Walking 1000 km across Japan to savor the fading beauty of traditional kissaten cafes and their signature snack: pizza toast
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Every year, revellers gather in a Danish national park to ring in one of the largest Independence Day celebrations outside the US
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What did ‘authenticity’ in food mean in 2019?
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The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried that a crackdown on contraband orecchiette pasta could threaten their way of life
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40,000 festive shoppers to hit Swedish superstore – shoppers travel from afar to Gekås Ullared mega-mall, an institution that has its own reality TV show
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Denmark and Iceland clash over priceless medieval manuscripts – Reykjavik wants collection bequeathed by Icelandic scholar returned
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Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot...
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Today is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes night, where we commemorate the 1605 plot by Guy Fawkes and a group of English Catholics who...
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.
Today is Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes night, where we commemorate the 1605 plot by Guy Fawkes and a group of English Catholics who planned on blowing up Parliament and King James I to set off a popular revolt and putting a Catholic Monarch on the throne.. We do that by burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire, eating black peas, treacle and parkin and terrorising pets everywhere by setting off fireworks.
Unfortunately because of its proximity to Halloween and silly things like "safety" many of the traditional celebrations are dying out. Kids used to essentially beg for money by stuffing clothing and asking for "a penny for the Guy" which they'd use for sweets or fireworks. Locally made bonfires are also becoming rarer with most these days done by professional and regulated firework companies and organised by the council so it feels more like watching a show and less like getting together with your neighbours and family.
Are you going to any events, hosting one, do you have any stories or questions about Bonfire night, do you have any traditions. Thoughts on fire works etc.
Just a general Bonfire Night thread.
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In Russia, the ultimate scary story is about losing your coat
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Finland has become the latest destination to introduce a tourism pledge – asking visitors to the country to promise to respect its nature, culture and inhabitants
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Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch
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Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
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A high income is a badge of success in many countries, but in Sweden a deep-rooted cultural code called Jantelagen stops many from talking about it
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Iceland's massive Laufskálarétt pony party is a wild and windswept ride
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