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Welsh Festival Foodways

Festival

DYDD GŴYL DEWI, St David’s Day on 1 March, with cawl, Welsh cakes, bara brith and the leek; the EISTEDDFOD, where the food is the food of a large gathering rather than an ancient menu — ⚠ recorded as such; Calan Gaeaf and Nos Galan; the Mari Lwyd, the wassailing horse skull carried door to door in midwinter in exchange for food and drink; harvest and the chapel cymanfa; and the agricultural shows.

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Languages: Welsh

What is recorded

  • Food served at the National Eisteddfod is recorded as the catering of a large modern gathering rather than as an ancient festival menu. The Mari Lwyd midwinter custom, in which a horse skull is carried door to door in exchange for food and drink, is separately documented. documented

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