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COURTESY : Rob Miller
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MAthri is a rajasthani snack made of wheat flour and salt and oil salt and spices and fried in oil.. Slight variation could be the combination of certain spices and herbs to the base. Most traditional is the one with broken pepper and ajwain, or with dried methi leaves( Kasuri),
COURTESY : Zara
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The manketti or mugongo nut is often harvested from elephant dung. African elephants happily eat the nuts from the trees but cannot actually digest them, so they are returned intact. Despite their unusual journey to the table, the nut pulp, when cooked, is said to taste of apple sauce.
COURTESY : Basavaraj
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Christmas superstition has it that any person who stirs the Christmas pudding mixture may make a wish and have it come true - though only if they stir the mixture clockwise. Further superstition has it that all the household, even babies, should take a turn stirring the mixture three times, to ensure the household prospers in the New Year.
COURTESY : Fadima
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Christmas was banned in Boston, Massachusetts from 1659 to 1681 and anyone found celebrating Christmas was fined five shillings. This was because of the Puritan pilgrims' belief that it was a decadent celebration 'consumed in compotations, in interludes, in playing at cards, in revellings, in excess of wine, in mad mirth ...'
COURTESY : Fadiman
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