Love this, as usual. In 1991 I was on a project in France that involved visiting pan-Euro institutions ... so we were treated to Weinachmarkt in Luxembourg (very amazing but maybe b/c it was my first - it set the bar realllly high); Brussels, I think, and Strasbourg? I just remember the vin chaud and the iced gingerbread St. Nick cookies made to become Xmas tree ornaments, which is really just a desecration of the idea of a cookie. SO many of them - I wondered how can these possibly all get purchased? Maybe there's an underground aftermarket for St. Nick's cookies and they end up in the Vermont Country Store catalogue for xmas?
That is a high bar! I’d be curious to see how a present-day Weihnachtsmarkt measured up to that memory.
The gingerbread decoration—not sure I realized they are for decorating and not eating? This is, again, possibly a future newsletter. Or an investigative piece?
I don't know I just remember they came with string, yarn, ribbon like you were going to hang them from a tree - sometimes in heart shapes, decorated too.
Love this, as usual. In 1991 I was on a project in France that involved visiting pan-Euro institutions ... so we were treated to Weinachmarkt in Luxembourg (very amazing but maybe b/c it was my first - it set the bar realllly high); Brussels, I think, and Strasbourg? I just remember the vin chaud and the iced gingerbread St. Nick cookies made to become Xmas tree ornaments, which is really just a desecration of the idea of a cookie. SO many of them - I wondered how can these possibly all get purchased? Maybe there's an underground aftermarket for St. Nick's cookies and they end up in the Vermont Country Store catalogue for xmas?
That is a high bar! I’d be curious to see how a present-day Weihnachtsmarkt measured up to that memory.
The gingerbread decoration—not sure I realized they are for decorating and not eating? This is, again, possibly a future newsletter. Or an investigative piece?
I don't know I just remember they came with string, yarn, ribbon like you were going to hang them from a tree - sometimes in heart shapes, decorated too.