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Category Archives: mardi gras / carnival

Eat now. Repent later.

… So Mardi Gras 2012 is upon us. Laissez les bon temps roulez! Despite not being religious, French/Creole/Spanish (well I am a smidgen French, but not really enough to claim it) or from New Orleans, I love Mardi Gras. I love the colors, the parades, the partying, the food. Fat Tuesday (or Shrove Tuesday as [...]

Mardi Gras King’s (cup)cakes.

Okay, time to school ya’ll a bit now. Today, in case you weren’t aware, is Mardi Gras. The terms “Mardi Gras” (mâr′·dē grâ), “Mardi Gras season“, and “Carnival season“,[1][2][3][4][5][6] in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany and ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is [...]