What is Myrrh Anyway? - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Christmas

Jonathan Green

Icon Books Ltd

2008

208 páginas

6h 56m

ISBN-13: 9781848310278

This is an extremely nice , festive tour through history , science, music, culture and traditions of holiday.Why favorite of all Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of december ? Why is the meat of traditional festive turkey? Why stockings hung on Christmas Eve ? What is the fig pudding ? Who were the three kings ? And will the Coca -Cola actually invented Father Christmas as we're all told ? Like the perfect Christmas stocking , "What is Myrrh Anyway? " contains all kinds of nice and tasty bits of information surprises. Jonathan Green discovers the truth behind the family festive traditions such as carol singing and cards, and demystifies the origins of Christmas.If you ever wondered how to cook the perfect roast turkey mince pies should really like , or you are required to bear the cross-dressing antics of a traditional pantomime each year , then just open this Christmas cracker of a book and discover the answers to all those questions you were too afraid - or ashamed - to ask .