Celebrating Saint George

[Peter the eater]

George is Patron Saint of England, Scouts, Gypsies, syphilitic people -- the list goes on. I'll be making Devils on Horseback and Chicken Wessex with Cerne Abbas Sauce for this weekend, even though it's three weeks early. Who else celebrates this mysterious Roman Soldier with feasting, and what are the details?

[fatmat]

I intend to eat significant amounts of curry... washed down with even more significant qauntities of cider. I will wear a red rose and wil go to my local pub and then drink more cider and listen to the brass band that they have rustled up from God knows where.

At some point during the evening I hope to get the opportunity to sing Jerusalem (drunkenly).

[Corinna]

This sounds like a great idea. I may need to start a tradition.

I lived in London for almost three years, and did a lot of St. George Celebrating, not to mention St. Andrew, et al. Maybe Pimm's, minted pea soup, steak & ale pie and Eton mess?

Time to dig out Nigella and James Martin!

Edited April 10, 2010 by Corinna (log)

[Peter the eater]

This sounds like a great idea. I may need to start a tradition.

Corrina, April 23rd is a good time of the year for a feast. St. Pat's and St. Andrew's almost always involve snow, at least where I live.

[Blether]

St George "... is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres (Spain), Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Milan, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Lod, Barcelona and Moscow", it says here, and his father was Turkish and his mother Palestinian. There have to be some good fusion opportunities there.

As an English festival, though, how could you argue with a roast beef dinner ?