Wedding Foods Around the World

Wedding Foods Around the World

Latasha Wisdom

Section 4

For my project I have chosen a few different countries and I researched some of the traditional wedding foods that are involved in their weddings. The traditional food in each of these countries are very interesting! Lets begin our tour…

Eastern Europe:

Bulgarian-

• Sweet honeyed cake and wine

• Loaf of freshly baked bread for traditional “bread-breaking”

Belarus-

• Wedding pie (made of bread)

Cretan-

• Wedding bread with candied dried fruit

• Spices include-cinnamon, coriander, clove, allspice, anise, nutmeg and ginger

• Also use rum, lemon peels and almond

Polish-

• Sharing of bread salt and wine

African:

South African-

Wine, wheat, pepper, salt, bitter herbs, water, and honey

Sudanese-

• Rice and candy

North American:

United States-

• Only real traditions are cake and champagne

• Most people pick food their guest will enjoy

Mexico-

• Candy from piñata

• Wedding cake- fruit cake soaked in rum

Caribbean:

• Curried goat, spicy chicken jerky, fried plantains, conch fritters

• Black cake

– Flour, brown sugar, butter, cherries, raisins, prunes, currants, eggs, served with hard rum sauces

– Fruit is soaked in rum for 2 weeks-year