• General
    • Home
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Sitemap
  • Photographs
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • Literature
    • Poems
  • News
    • Announcements
    • Charity
    • Legal
    • Medicine
    • Politics
  • Education
    • Code Samples
      • Basic
      • Simple
      • Intermediate
      • Advanced
      • Tips
    • History
    • Literature
    • Quotes
    • Videos
    • Vocabulary
  • Entertainment
    • Art
    • Humor
    • Photos
    • Video
  • Technology
    • Software
      • Support
      • Tweaks
    • Company
    • Science
    • Security
Major Mike

Knowledge is Power - Share the Power

Holiday Traditions Around the World

December 25, 2016 by GµårÐïåñ
Christmas Cake in Japan

Different cultures around the world mark the winter holidays with a delightful range of seasonal traditions. Join us on a quick tour of some truly distinctive holiday customs.

First stop: Japan. The snow-white confection known as a Japanese Christmas cake is an important—and delicious—holiday custom in a country that doesn’t celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense. But among the secular festivities of Japan’s holiday season (including city streets festooned with Western-inspired holiday glitter and ads promoting gift-giving) their bakeries turn out frosted sponge cakes garnished with fresh fruit (usually strawberries), chocolates, and Santa Claus figurines.

The Christmas cake gained popularity as Japan rebuilt following the destruction of World War II. This Western-style desert symbolized luxury and the re-emergence of a prosperous middle class. Today, it’s one of the country’s most popular winter holiday traditions. In fact, scholars cite the sharing of Christmas cake as the centerpiece, and highlight, of Japan’s increasingly popular Christmas festivities.

Christmas cake is a type of fruitcake served at Christmas time in many countries. A Christmas cake may be light or dark, crumbly-moist to sticky-wet, spongy to heavy, leavened or unleavened, shaped round, square or oblong as whole cakes, cupcake, or petit fours, with marzipan, icing, glazing, dusting with icing sugar, or plain. If a Christmas cake is covered in icing, it is quite common for it to be decorated – models of houses, of fir trees or of Santa Claus may be in the array of decorations.

— Source: wiki/Christmas_cake



FacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblrmailFacebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblrmail

Day(s) Ago ➠ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Posted in: General, History Tagged: annual, Christmas, event, holiday
← Daily Pic 12/25/16
Today in History 12/26/16 →

Show Your Support – We Don’t Believe in Disruptive Ads

Donate in one of two ways :
(BitCoin - preferred)
1BTshbqMSx5AHrDFLEa1YdPAy5EFzRSjr9
(PayPal)
January 2021
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Apr    

Semper Fidelis

Always Faithful, Always Forward
United States Marine Corp

Places to find me:

StackExchange profile for GµårÐïåñ at StackExchange

CodeProject

Twitter : verified ➠Follow

GitHub ➠Follow @GuardianMajor

ello ➠

deviantArt profile for GµårÐïåñ on deviantArt

Facebook i have made a personal choice after their "name policy" witch hunt which repeats every 2 years it seems at the whim of the "bully mob" (even when they make you jump through hoops and verify you), to just quit it and be done with it, they are not worth my time. I don't need it, I don't miss it, in fact it has made my life more productive and void of gross hate, vitriol and drivel. To those who say they can't stay in touch if I am not on there, if you can't reach me because I am not on Facebook, then you are not trying AT ALL - therefore, good riddance.

Scribd profile for GµårÐïåñ on Scribd

NoScript/FLashGot (Informaction) profile for GµårÐïåñ on Informaction Forums

Subjects

1966 vocabulary 1974 United States 1939 1993 1984 1950 1859 1915 1977 1948 1973 1914 1976 1981 1789 1949 1919 1953 1964 1943 1812 1898 1917 1889 Soviet Union 1968 1941 New York 1961 Germany 1902 1986 national park 1776 1942 1995 1938 has_video 1994 1965 1933 1957 code 1870 1958 1955 1944 1990 1978 1980 history 1952 1979 1962 1985 1989 2000 1956 1983 1970 1901 1946 event 1971 1954 1851 1935 1918 1963 1846 1959 1908 1922 1969 1916 1863 1972 has_audio England holiday 1991 1945 1982 1865 1960 daily pic 1934 1940 NASA 1937 1975 1911 1967 1998 1951 memorial annual 1947

Archives

Access Options

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • ∞ Guardian International
🎔
Brought to You
by Guardian International

Copyright © 2007-2021 Major Mike | Privacy Policy | DMCA | Contact | About
fortitudo fortis defendit

McAfee SecureNorton by SymantecVirusTotal