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photo: Adobe January and February mean that it’s king cake season: Bakeries all over Louisiana churn them out by the purple-green-and-gold thousands, many of them containing a plastic baby that symbolizes, to the one who finds it in their slice, luck, prosperity, and the responsibility to provide the next king cake. “But what we see today is quite different from the original celebration,” says Liz Williams, the founder and president of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in New Orleans. Here, Williams takes us through how the king cake tradition has evolved (and if you’ve ever gotte...

The one constant among king cakes is that buried inside is a trinket, normally a plastic baby. Whoever gets the slice with the prize at a party, parade gathering or the office break room must buy the next cake. Between Jan. 6, the start of Carnival, and the Tuesday of Mardi Gras, this year Feb. 16, a high percentage of a New Orleanian's daily calorie intake comes from king cakes. With offices mostly empty and every party a potential super spreader event, Samuels does see more people buying medium and individual-sized cakes than large ones. Bywater Bakery, owned by baker Chaya Conrad, was prep...

The event took place Saturday afternoon. Author: WNEP Web Staff Updated: 6:38 PM EST January 9, 2021 There was a celebration of Latino heritage Saturday afternoon in Monroe County.  Folks came out to a drive-thru event celebrating The Three Kings at Mountain Center near Tobyhanna. The holiday is a tradition in Latin American countries.  It commemorates the biblical story of the three wise men who brought gifts to baby Jesus. "There's no room for some traditions in some people, at least that seems to be the perception. And so we do this with joy, with children...

Photos of the Week: U.S. Capitol breached; Orthodox Christmas This week’s photo selection includes breaching of the U.S. Capitol, Orthodox Christmas, Epiphany and more. Parishioners attend the Orthodox Christmas Mass in the Holy Trinity church in Iltsi village, Ivano-Frankivsk region of western Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Although Ukraine is struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic that has inundated its overburdened medical system with patients, Orthodox Christmas celebrations on Thursday occurred widely without masks or social distancing. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) ...

A Salisbury Cathedral Chapter member is also an important part of the same service. The Bishop of Sherborne, the Right Reverend Karen Gorham, had been given the opportunity to prepare a service celebrating the journey of the wise men to Jesus in Bethlehem. This will be broadcast on the national BBC Local Radio Sunday Service tomorrow. In her service, the Bishop aims to reflect on being a "seeker and a searcher" and what that might mean in difficult times, including now during a third Covid-19 lockdown. Before recording the service in her home, the bishop said: "Doing this remotely...