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In Case You Were Curious… About New Year’s celebrations!
December 30, 2022
Happy New Year folks! Most of us celebrate the New Year with a party hat and a glass of champagne. However, in other parts of the world they ring in the New Year quite differently. For example:
- Romanian young men go around the countryside banging drums, ringing cowbells and cracking whips.
- Mexico's tradition is to fire rifles into the air.
- Spaniards quickly consume 12 grapes at the start of the New Year, popping one with each chime of the clock.
- Peruvians do the same, only they swallow the grapes whole while sitting underneath a table.
- Scottish children traditionally go to local homes on New Year's Eve to collect oatmeal cakes.
- In Armenia, families take turns having feasts around their hearth, as neighbors lower baskets of presents down the chimney.
- Peruvians wear yellow underwear.
- Muscovites crowd Red Square and toss empty vodka bottles over their heads at midnight.
- Danes leap off chairs at the stroke of midnight so they can "jump" into the New Year.
Healthy Food Trends For 2023: There are some interesting food trends for the new year that experts say to keep an eye out for. “Today” asked the pros and here is their list of top up and coming trends:
- Vegan food with a nostalgic feel
- Faux meat becoming mainstream
- Going sober
- Carbon neutral snacks
- Latin owned food brands rising to the top
- Charcuterie boards hitting restaurants
- The hottest new spice will be shichimi togarashi
Source: Today
Sunday is New Year's Day
December 30, 2022
January 1st is New Year's Day! The tradition of celebrating New Year’s Day began over 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon. During that era, the calendar changed over on the first day of spring. In 153 BC, the Roman Senate changed the date for New Year's to January 1.
On this day, New Year's Day signifies a time of new beginnings and resolutions. There are many traditions and festivals that take place on New Year's Day around the world. In California, people decorate carriages with flowers during the Tournament of Roses Parade in order to celebrate the ripening of the orange crop. In the Netherlands, people eat donuts because they believe it will bring them good fortune.