festive eating around the world

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Feliz Navidad! The winter tradition of getting the family together, giving gifts, and celebrating religious ties is deeply rooted in almost every culture in the world. As we all come together this winter and celebrate, we have traditional foods unique to our family and heritage. Here are some of the celebratory foods I’d like to know more about. In the years to come, I’m going to …

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  1. Kathy says:

    Love your magazine and website!

    I am a “real” farm girl, having been raised on a 2,000 acre wheat and barley ranch in Eastern WA. We also had a large scale operation raising market cattle and hogs, owned several horses, maintained a large flock of chickens, milking cows, and always had an endless supply of barn cats, along with the typical farm dog.

    We kids stayed very busy with 4-H, Campfire Girls, the Grange, and raised a huge garden with fruit trees and berries. I attended a 3-room country school and feel I was fortunate growing up like I did.

    My comment is this: having both 100% maternal Norwegian Grandparents and 100% paternal Finnish Grandparents in my bloodline, I wish to correct your description of Lutefisk and Lefse. Both are Norwegian delicacies not Finnish. For the record, keep the Lutefisk but I absolutely love the lefse!

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snowiest place on earth

Can you guess the snowiest place on earth?

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  1. Lauren says:

    Oh that is too funny! I never would have guessed a mountain named Paradise would be the snowiest place on earth!
    My husband’s aunt lives in Washington, and though we’re here on the East coast I’d love to make it out there sometime next year and visit with her. I’m hoping we might be able to make the drive from there and stay a couple nights at your B&B as well! Does it fill up fast for the year?
    <3 Lauren

    • MaryJane says:

      I love learning surprise geography facts. Our B&B does in fact fill up fast. Call my daughter, Meggie, as soon as you are able, 208-882-6819. We would LOVE to have you.

  2. WellActually says:

    Well the thing to remember of course that the places that really get heavy snowfall don’t
    have any practical way of measuring the snowfall since either A) the area is too rugged
    and dangerous to get to because of either the heavy glaciation, high elevation and bad
    weather B) if they could get to it there still wouldn’t be a reliable way to measure the
    snowfall given that avalanches would make trying to measure snow very hazardous
    as well as the fact that avalanches, high wind and other factors would distort what
    the real actual snowfall is.

    Suffice to say there are many places in the world that have a better preciptiation/cold temp
    combination with heavier glaciation than Rainer or Mount Baker so places like Paradise(which isn’t
    even at the highest elevation on Rainer) and Mount Baker Ski Resort both in Washington(still lower
    in elevation than Mount Baker) while without a doubt to get a lot of snowfall the reality is that
    there are numerous places that most likely would show higher snowfall totals if there was a way
    to reliably measure the snowfall in a safe way.

    Some of the areas that I’m sure that do receive more snowfall than in Paradise or Mount Baker
    would be in the St Elias Range(Mount Fairweather and Mount St Elias) in Southeast Alaska
    (that borders British Columbia and Yukon Territory respectively). The Chugach range in southern
    alaska is another potential area. The British columbia coast range(in particular around Mount
    Waddinton and Mount Ratz)

    The southern Alps in New Zealand would be another possibility(in particular mount cook)

    Patagonia and specifically in some areas of the southern patagonia icefield(to be really specific
    around TYNDALL glacier and Aguilera volcano).

    an 18000 foot volcano in Colombia called Nevado de Huila which seems to be snowiest mountain
    if the weather predictions for http://www.mountain-forecast.com/ are reliable.

    In the Himalayas Kangchenjunga(the 3rd highest mountain in the word and the most southern
    and easterly of the 8000 Meter peaks which means it probably gets hit by the monsoon more
    than the other 8000 meter peaks. Also the largest glacier, called the Zemu glacier, originates
    from the east face of Kangchenjunga), Annapurna,Manaslu and what is called the Assam
    Himalaya in the extreme eastern part of the Himalayas.

    Here is a pretty good thread on this that gives much more detail

    http://www.americanwx.com/bb/index.php/topic/879-snowiest-place-on-earth/

    Ya so in reality, as much snow as Paradise gets, I highly doubt that it would be the snowiest place
    on earth

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  4. When I was a teacher in Kashmir India , I could see Annapurna, and sometimes Mt. Everest, daily . It’s a huge high range so they only look like blips on the top. But the entire Himalayan Range is very impressive indeed, especially viewed on a daily basis . I could see the glaciers which were probably larger and deeper back then before the climate crisis. We did not have snow much in the deep valley where I lived ( 7,000 ft+) but it was all around if you went any distance from the Dal lake in Srinagar.
    Very impressive info WellActually, I am sure we all learned a lot.

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