{"id":882,"date":"2009-02-24T12:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2009-02-24T12:47:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:47:05","slug":"carnaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Carnaval!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day folks.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether you think of it as Fat Tuesday, <a title=\"Wikipedia - Mardi Gras\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fat_tuesday\" target=\"_blank\">Mardi Gras<\/a>, <a title=\"Wikipedia - Shrove Tuesday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shrove_Tuesday\" target=\"_blank\">Shove Tuesday<\/a>, <a title=\"Pancake Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pancakeday.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pancake Day<\/a> or, as the Brazilians know it, <a title=\"Wikipedia - Brazilian Carnaval\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazilian_Carnival\" target=\"_blank\">Carnaval<\/a>, today is a day to celebrate.\u00c2\u00a0 For you Catholics out there today marks the last day before the beginning of Lent.\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"Wikipedia - Lent\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lent\" target=\"_blank\">Lent<\/a> refers to both the 40 day period prior to Easter Sunday and the tradition of fasting from certain foods or practices.\u00c2\u00a0 In the US you&#8217;ll find most people practicing Lent by giving up a food they love, typically junk food.\u00c2\u00a0 My Grandpa Lloyd for example would always give up watermelon for Lent.\u00c2\u00a0 Which worked out particularly well for him since you generally couldn&#8217;t get it during Lent anyway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-883\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/profile\/Raqueltex\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-883\" title=\"braziliancarnaval500\" src=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/braziliancarnaval500.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Copyright Raquel Teixeira\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Copyright Raquel Teixeira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But, I&#8217;m not here to talk about Lent.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m here to talk a very small bit about Carnaval.\u00c2\u00a0 No, it&#8217;s not spelled wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Carnaval is the correct Portuguese spelling of Carnival and is probably the most well known event in Brazil.\u00c2\u00a0 Carnaval consists of a number of days worth of partying, dancing and parading culminating the four days before Ash Wednesday.\u00c2\u00a0 Groups will congregate and form blocos which assemble and then parade throughout the city.\u00c2\u00a0 In Rio de Janeiro you get the addition of the local Samba schools who compete in the four night Sambadrome.\u00c2\u00a0 Which, never have been to Carnaval I can only assume is very similar to <a title=\"Wikipedia - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Max_Beyond_Thunderdome\" target=\"_blank\">Thunderdome<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably not true at all, but it would be awesome.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a party but sadly don&#8217;t have decorations to make it happen head on over to Leblon&#8217;s website and pick up your very own <a title=\"Leblon Carnaval Kit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lebloncarnaval.com\/carnaval-kit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leblon Carnaval Kit<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The kit comes complete with masks, beads, glow sticks, and even a music CD to put your party in the right mood.\u00c2\u00a0 Add to that some Caipirinhas and you&#8217;ll be set for a night of partying.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Carnaval and Mardi Gras tonight I&#8217;m hosting a cacha\u00c3\u00a7a tasting at my house complete with homemade gumbo in true New Orleans style.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be posting the results later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day folks.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether you think of it as Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Shove Tuesday, Pancake Day or, as the Brazilians know it, Carnaval, today is a day to celebrate.\u00c2\u00a0 For you Catholics out there today marks the last day before the beginning of Lent.\u00c2\u00a0 Lent refers to both the 40 day period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}