Christmas – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:44:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Christmas – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Holiday Rituals in a Multiethnic World https://brewminate.com/holiday-rituals-in-a-multiethnic-world/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:01:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=113499 This home cook uses food to blend both of her two rich cultural backgrounds. By Francesca Dabecco holiday

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The Weird World of Christmas Traditions https://brewminate.com/the-weird-world-of-christmas-traditions/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:01:22 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=114680 Traditions many of us associate with Christmas get their own cultural spin in different countries around the world.

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Celebrating the Holidays in Secular Style https://brewminate.com/celebrating-the-holidays-in-secular-style/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:00:38 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=114734 All around us are celebrations in the making – centered around beliefs that we don’t share. What’s a

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Christmas at the White House with Winston Churchill https://brewminate.com/christmas-at-the-white-house-with-winston-churchill/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:13:13 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143075 After Pearl Harbor, the British prime minister insisted on visiting President Roosevelt in Washington. On a cold December

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How Washington Irving Shaped Christmas in America https://brewminate.com/how-washington-irving-shaped-christmas-in-america/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:12:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143069 The famous Knickerbocker was all about Saint Nick. Thanks to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” his creepy tale

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An English Christmas with Victorian Plum Pudding https://brewminate.com/an-english-christmas-with-victorian-plum-pudding/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:11:59 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143044 Christmas Pudding as we know it is a Victorian innovation. Introduction Christmas Pudding is when the British Christmas

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Sugar, Spice, and Christmas with Samuel Pepys in the Early Modern World https://brewminate.com/sugar-spice-and-christmas-with-samuel-pepys-in-the-early-modern-world/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:11:43 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143033 Pepys was a rising star in the administration of the royal navy, and life for the sailors aboard

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Why the Puritans Cracked Down on Celebrating Christmas https://brewminate.com/why-the-puritans-cracked-down-on-celebrating-christmas/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:11:07 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=142996 It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled. Introduction When winter

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The History of Humble Mince Pie since the Middle Ages https://brewminate.com/the-history-of-humble-mince-pie-since-the-middle-ages/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:10:52 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143012 The origin of the mince pies can be traced back to the thirteenth century during the Crusades. Some

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Medieval Christmas Giving: Charity, Ritual, and Celebration https://brewminate.com/giving-at-christmas-time-in-the-middle-ages/ Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:10:36 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=143003 It is clear that we thought not only of the less-fortunate at Christmas time, but throughout the whole

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