In Germany we do get our presents on Christmas eve. So now here I am – the proud owner of a huge Le Creuset cast iron pan and a Great School of Cooking book from the École de cuisine La Varenne.
If you happen to pass through Hamburg during the next year or so, please drop by and let me serve you some North German spécialité.
They call Germans Krauts for a reason, but there is much more we serve and, while I am nipping an excellent Bourdaux, let me assure you, we do have some good beer to accompany a solit but delicate meal.
This festivity is said to mark a special guy’s birthday.
I personally do not feel a recurring birthday to be a special event. This is more like a winter solstice festivity and that is most probable where this special date originated from.
Important to me are the teachings this one guy did as a grown up. These teachings have been propagated as important parts of three major religious traditions. Other religious-philosophical traditions do acknowledge, if not the guy or his teachings, then their content as right and valuable.
So please lets try to acknowledge these collective wisdoms of humanity and aspire to keep them in mind any day.
To all of you a merry Christmas and may there be peace on earth.