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NOLA King Cake, Mardi Gras Flambeaux, Mardi Gras Indians, Twelfth Night -…
NOLA King Cake
CAKE / RECIPE
Blend of coffee cake & cinamon roll
Plastic King cake baby inside
Iced with the colours of Mardi Gras
Tradition
If you find the baby you have to buy another cake
Gifts you can give in the season
Origins
Comes from the Bible (cake brought to Baby Jesus)
Colours : Green, yellow, purple - on the icing
Mardi Gras Flambeaux
Traditions
Racial segregation and discrimination
Wooden torchs
Dances
WHO
African men
Spectators
Where?
USA
WHEN
Dates back to 1857
Mardi Gras Indians
History
Slave Africans
Native Americans
Unique
Each tribes has its own traditions
MUSIC
Call and response chanting
Twelfth Night
WHEN
Beginning of the carnival season
After Christmas
Epiphany
Masquerade Ball
WHERE
St Charles Streetcars
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