Alimentary Advent Calendar: Door Number 26 - Boxing Day

<p>For Great Britain and its Commonwealth nations, Boxing Day offers a unique proposition - a day of rest and respite after a busy holiday season full of cooking, baking, and eating to our hearts’ content. For Kim, Boxing Day is meant to be spent with new books, but for her family in South Africa, it was a day to bring leftovers to friends. Behind the final door of our 2021 Alimentary Advent Calendar lies some wild theories about how Boxing Day earned its name.</p><h2>MORE GOOD STUFF</h2><p>Sources We Found Helpful for this Episode</p><p><a href="https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2010/12/26/happy-boxing-day/#.YcNkjGjMKUk">Happy Boxing Day, Smithsonian</a></p><h2>Books We Think You’ll  Enjoy Reading</h2><p>Anything you like; </p><p>Kim has an enormous backlog of reading to do starting with: </p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3qpb3VT">The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty</a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3pnvEKU">A History of Food in 100 Recipes by William Sitwell</a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3Je71bu">Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide by Atlas Obscura</a></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/3qljVLZ">The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister</a></p><h2>Recipes You Really Need to Try</h2><p><a href="https://pastrychefonline.com/caramel-walnut-shortbread-cookies/">Shortbread Cookies</a> - Pastry Chef Online</p><p><a href="https://www.sweetsteep.com/brown-sugar-milk-tea-served-hot/">Hot Milk Tea</a> - Sweet Steep</p><p><a href="https://pastrychefonline.com/beaten-coffee-indian-cappuccino/">Whipped Coffee </a>- Pastry Chef Online</p><h2>We would love to connect with you</h2><p><a href="https://asweeat.com">AsWeEat.com</a>, on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/asweeat/">@asweeat</a>, join our new<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643433769037789"> As We Eat</a> community on Facebook, or subscribe to the <a href="https://asweeat.substack.com/about">As We Eat Journal</a>.</p><p>Do you have a great idea 💡 for a show topic, a recipe 🥘 that you want to share, or just say “hi”👋🏻?  Send