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<u>This traditional dish sounds sweet and friendly but has a very violent history:</u> | <u>This traditional dish sounds sweet and friendly but has a very violent history:</u> | ||
#Originally, Roman chiefs had the tradition of sharing a cake with their slaves to elect one of them as "king of a day". The one who would find the bean was then invited to fulfill all his desires (being: going to bed with the queen, ordering the death of others) before being slaughtered at the end of the day. This yearly event was thought as a way to simulate the flexibility of roman power to its people. | |||
#The tradition of the galette took a progressive turn under the French monarchy. Chose among a group of street orphans, a young king was elected for the day and the court was ordered to finance his education. | |||
#Under the french revolution, the galette des rois or ‘king’s cake’ was renamed: galette de la liberté to push all royalty away. | |||
Although it is rare nowadays to share the galette with its violent origins in mind, the tradition of the galette remains, almost two thousand years later, still as lively and appreciated.to posit an alternative to destructive usage of land and climate distress, supporting these techniques of restoring land is the squareroot of mitigating climate change.” | Although it is rare nowadays to share the galette with its violent origins in mind, the tradition of the galette remains, almost two thousand years later, still as lively and appreciated.to posit an alternative to destructive usage of land and climate distress, supporting these techniques of restoring land is the squareroot of mitigating climate change.” | ||