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Fat Tuesday is Upon Us – Let Your Taste Buds Rejoice!

Fat Tuesday is Upon Us – Let Your Taste Buds Rejoice!

Yes, this Tuesday is the arrival of Fat Tuesday.  You may know it by its more famous French name – Mardi Gras.  It’s the last day of fun and frivolity prior to the arrival of Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, when the more pious among us will forgo their wicked, hedonistic ways and settle in for forty days of self-reflection and prayer in preparation for the coming Easter holiday. Since Fat Tuesday is the “last gasp” for all…

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Fat Tuesday: Get Your Fastnacht Craving Satisfied!

Fat Tuesday: Get Your Fastnacht Craving Satisfied!

Believe it or not, 2020 has already brought us to the season of Lent (which begins this Wednesday, February  26th – also known as “Ash Wednesday”).  In Christian circles, Lent is the forty-day period leading up to Easter (modeled after Christ’s forty day trial in the desert), where observers are to replicate Jesus’s sacrifice by following a strict lifestyle of prayer, contemplation, and denial in preparation for the coming Easter celebrations (Lent ends on Good Friday – which is on…

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