http://asiansupper.com/taxonomy/term/1381/0/feed en http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/foods-of-mid-autumn-festivals <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-blog-entry-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/theslurp/foods-of-mid-autumn-festivals" class="imagecache imagecache-recipe_top_Featured imagecache-linked imagecache-recipe_top_Featured_linked"><img src="http://asiansupper.com/files/imagecache/recipe_top_Featured/blog_entry_uploads/promo/supperbox/mooncake.jpg" alt="" title="" width="340" height="250" class="imagecache imagecache-recipe_top_Featured"/></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-blog-entry-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Many Asian countries, including China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, celebrate a mid-autumn festival that accompanies food. Are you celebrating, and if so, what&#039;s cooking? </div> </div> </div> <p>Many Asian cultures that follow a lunar calendar celebrate an Autumn festival on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar, which on this day falls on September 12th. This is not coincidentally when the moon is at its fullest.&nbsp;</p> <p>Since the holiday occurs when the harvest is bountiful, food -- like with pretty much all other holidays -- plays a major role. We've done a roundup of the different types of foods that mark each of the holidays. Please share your stories about how you celebrate by commenting below!&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/foods-of-mid-autumn-festivals" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/foods-of-mid-autumn-festivals#comments chuseok Holidays korean thanksgiving mid-autumn festival tsukimi zhong qiu jie Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:56:31 +0000 tess 1115 at http://asiansupper.com