The Margarita is an alcoholic beverage originating from Mexico. Like many popular beverages the cocktail favorite has several origin stories.

Chocolate Mint, also known as Mint Chocolate is a sweet foodie favorite. It is created when mint flavoring (peppermint, spearmint, or crème de menthe) is added to plain chocolate.  Herb enthusiast may also be familiar with the Chocolate Mint herb that both tastes and smells like a combination of chocolate and mint.

My mother was “the help.”  And so was her mother. I’m telling you these things because they were courageous and they were not alone in their courage. Legions of black women like them—maids and waitresses and caretakers who fanned out across Vicksburg and Mississippi and the South to work in the homes and restaurants and hotels owned, operated and occupied by whites—practiced small measures of courage every day by facing constant violent threat and institutionalized racism instated by the very people they were charged with feeding, rearing and caring for their children.

Gumbo is a Louisiana favorite. No Mardi Gras season would be complete without the thick soup. Containing a combination of vegetables and meat or seafood, gumbo must be thick and must have rice.

The wedding ceremony takes place as a "festival", especially in small village communities, since it is an activity covering the whole village. While some of the ceremonies held during different stages of the wedding can be considered as a feast and entertainment, others resemble an "elegy". Traditionally (in Turkey, at least), henna night, or kina gecesi (kuh-NAH GE-je-see) is a women's party that usually takes place the night before the wedding.