Have you heard of the beautiful French holiday that is Mardi Gras?
Being a very white and very suburban New Englander, I’ve never participated in
any of the festivities down south but have only watched from afar—the costumes,
the parades, the dances, oh yeah and
the food. And damn if it’s not an interesting holiday. New
Orleans has their full day of parades and festivities. Brazil has the
enormous five-day Carnival. All around the Anglo-Catholic world people celebrate
the day before Lent by relaxing moral codes and breaking out the purple and yellow and green and eating lots
of delicious fried foods.