Meeting Benches World art in all forms
Thanksgiving and pumpkin bread, hot dog buns and apple pie. Enjoy your meal, hoping that while you eat, you “feel” a little of America, even in its smells, tastes and cultural traditions, because this may be a way – special – to know the country you are visiting. The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, was created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. That geometrical way of the mind, could live with the simplicity of the sides of a charming square, where joy, surprise, expectations and approval are four emotions in motion. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life.
THANKSGIVING > This tradition comes from a Christian holiday, which is to thank God with festivities and prayers, for all the good things received during the year. This word means “action of grace”, and is connected to the fourth Thursday in November, with a special way to “feel” and “eat”: turkey stuffed with mashed sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.
PUMPKIN BREAD > Visiting America this season, do not forget that in these lands autumn is a season that brings many good things together with the leaves, even the pumpkins. Try to go to Starbucks, so you can eat a particular coffee, a Pumkin spice (coffee spiced pumpkin). Are you hungry? In that coffee you can ask a Pumkin delicious bread (pumpkin bread).
COOKIE JAR > Knowing a typical American family, in their kitchen you can observe some particular glass jar, filled with dry ingredients (walnuts and white chocolate, chocolate chips and white sugar, brown sugar, flour, cocoa powder and flour). When you ask what is the use that case (with those things in), they will invite you to sit down, and you’ll see in a bowl add eggs and butter. Before eating, you will need to do two more things: mix those things, those things put in the oven. Enjoy your meal!
HOT DOG > Bread soft and light, mustard, ketchup and hot dogs: they are the symbol of an American city – New York, where you can buy them in one of the mythical carts street vendors in the city – but you can eat them in any place of this immense nation.
APPLE PIE > It is the most popular American Pie, made with simple ingredients: flour, butter, sugar, salt and vinegar, apple cider, but also a few tablespoons of cold water. The filling of this cake is special: Granny Smith apples cut into small pieces, cinnamon and brown sugar, a vanilla bean, corn flour and lemon juice. Two ways to enjoy this delicacy: hot or cold (if you want, with a little vanilla ice cream).
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