Pancake Day, and why my scale needs fixing
It's Pancake Day here in Britain---a calorie laden tradition that precedes Ash Wednesday. Very sorry I couldn't post on the actual day, but I've just recovered from my carb hangover and am finally able to face a photo of a pancake again! So, what is Pancake Day, you ask? Here in London, I've found that there are some very unusual holidays (Guy Fawkes Day, for example, in which they celebrate all things pyrotechnic), and this is one of them! If you like breakfast, breakfast for lunch, breakfast for dinner, or pancakes at any time of day or night, this could be the holiday for you! In a nutshell, Pancake Day is the one day that England rids their kitchen of all of the food items that the Church once forbid during Lent. In the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory the Great handed down the dictum---no eggs, meat or dairy (or sex or fighting) for the 40 days prior to Easter. This is an interesting concept which certainly begs further questioning. What I want to kno...