Archive for the ‘Easter’ Category
Friday, April 10th, 2009
We’ve found this interesting article by Lindsey Partos from www.confectionerynews.com, dealing with packaging waste.
A developer of a corn-based plastic claims that if we switched Easter egg packaging to a biodegradable plastic made from corn starch, we could save enough energy to power 350,000 homes. In Australia only, Easter egg packaging produces 1,200 tonnes of waste. 3,000 tonnes of Easter egg packaging waste are produced in the UK each year writes Lindsey.
This is only during Easter. The article adds that Australia produces over 1M tonnes of plastic (or 71 kg per person), which, if made of biodegradable plastic, could help the country save enough energy to power 17 million homes.
It is critical to constantly bring up awareness on packaging recycling before it becomes too late to save our planet.
This is why we are so proud of our eco-friendly Knipschildt chocolate boxes.
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
According to Christians, Jesus was resurrected three days after his crucifixion. This resurrection is celebrated on Easter Day (also Resurrection Sunday). The Easter season lasts for the fifty days until Pentecost.
Easter is a moveable holiday, meaning it does not fall on a fixed date in our Georgian calendar (which follows the cycle of the sun and the seasons). Instead, Easter is the first Sunday after the first moon whose 14th day (the ecclesiastic “full moon”) is after March 21. Therefore, Easter can fall on 35 possible dates – between March 22 and April 25 included. It last fell on March 22 in 1818, and will not do so again until 2285. It fell on March 23 in 2008, but will not do so again until 2160. Easter last fell on the latest possible date, April 25, in 1943 and will next fall on that date in 2038. However, it will fall on April 24, just one day before this latest possible date, in 2011. The cycle of Easter dates repeats after exactly 5,700,000 years, with April 19 being the most common date (source: wikipedia). Easter 2009 is April 12.
The English term Easter comes from the Old English word Ēostre. It refers to Eostur-monath, or Oster monat the April month of the Germanic calendar.
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009
The symbolic Easter Bunny seems to be originating in Alsace and western Germany where it was found in writings in the 17th century for the first time. The first edible bunnies were made of sugar and pastry in the early 1800s.
German settlers brought the Easter bunny in America in the 1700s. Their children were told about the “Oschter Haws” (a phonetic transcription of the German Osterhase). “Hase” means “hare,” not rabbit, and in western European folklore the “Easter Bunny” indeed is a hare, not a rabbit. The tradition wants that only good children would receive gifts of decorated eggs in the nests that they would build out of caps and bonnets and place in secluded areas of their homes. The nest has turned into the manufactured Easter basket as the tradition spread, and the placing of the nest in a secluded area has become the tradition of hiding baskets. Thus the Easter egg hunt was born.
The idea of an egg-laying bunny seems to be the result of a European folklore confusion between hares raising their young at ground level and the finding of bird’s (plovers) nests nearby. So in the Spring, eggs would be found in what looked like hare hollow.
 Since rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox.
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
The egg was used in Pagan celebrations of Spring as a symbol of the rebirth of the earth (just as new life emerges from an egg when the chick hatches out) which was then adopted by Christians. The old tradition consists of dying or painting chicken eggs while modern habit is to substitute chocolate eggs.
Persians have been painting eggs for Nowruz, their New Year celebration which falls on the Spring equinox, for at least 2500 years. The walls of Persepolis in Iran carry sculptures showing people bringing eggs for Nowruz to the King.
As a modern society, let’s take great pride in preserving the world’s heritage by celebrating such an old tradition.
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
The story of Knipschildt boxes starts in Nepal.
Lokta is a Nepalese bush that has the characteristics of re-growing again and again after pruning. Beautiful handmade “paper” can be made of the inner bark of this wild bush. The fibrous paper is prized for its attractive soft texture, its exceptional durability, strength and resistance to insects. The 2000 year old art of lokta papermaking is being preserved through equal opportunity cooperatives which teach and provide income to many Nepalese.
Easter may be the perfect opportunity to get your hands on these Easter chocolate boxes made by Knipschildt and share this great story with your family and friends.
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