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Celebrate the official beginning of Carnival season with a treat fit for a magi or three
New Orleans is a long way from New Mexico -- but Santa Feans can still bite into a sweet Mardi Gras tradition Thursday by stopping at any of eight Santa Fe bakeries, restaurants and hotels participating in the Museum of International Folk Art's first "King's Day" celebration.See the full content of this document
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Feast Now, Fast Later
Jan. 6, King's Day -- also known as Twelfth Night, Feast of the Three Kings and Feast of the Epiphany -- is the official kickoff of the Carnival season in New Orleans and other Christian communities in Europe and the Americas.
The star of the day is King Cake, an oval, ring-shaped yeast bread braided with cinnamon and sugar, then dusted in granulated sugar dyed the royal Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold in Lousiana; red, green, yellow and white are common elsewhere.King Cakes are so popular in Louisiana that New Orleans bakeries churn out close to a million every year, said Barbara Mauldin, curator for the Museum of International Folk Art's Carnaval! exhibition and a director of the related battery of events taking place in Santa Fe under Carnaval! Santa Fe banner.Santa Feans ca...See the full content of this document
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