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Mama Lisa Now Has a Facebook Group

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

We’d love it if you’d join the Mama Lisa Facebook Group. You can post anything you’d like about your culture. You can post your own musical recordings or YouTube videos… Links to culture and musical sites… Photos of your country… Questions about songs or cultural issues… Anything related to World Culture and Music…

Click on the icon below to access the group. If you have a Facebook account already, you just need to click on “Join the Group” to join. If you’re not a member, you simply have to sign up for free to become a member and then you can join the Mama Lisa Group…

Looking forward to seeing you in Facebook!

Mama Lisa

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New Recordings of Some American Songs

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Heather was nice enough to send me a few recordings of some American children’s songs that she did. She sent me mp3’s of the following songs:

I’m Popeye the Sailor Man (Spoof)
Don’t Put Your Trash in My Backyard/Fish and Chips and Vinegar
Animal Fair
Home on the Range/Oh Give Me a Home (the regular song and a spoof version)
Mmm mmm Went the Little Green Frog One Day
Eeny Meeny Desimeeny

You can click the link the links to access each song page.

We always welcome recordings of traditional songs to post on Mama Lisa’s World. Heather wrote about how she recorded her mp3’s:

“I recorded these on my iPod, edited them in Audacity, then exported them from Audacity as mp3’s.”

They sound really good! Thanks for sending these Heather!

Mama Lisa

PS If you’re interested in learning more, check out a blog post I wrote in the past for more on Recording onto the Computer.

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Symbolic Foods Eaten Around the World for New Years

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

In many parts of the world, the foods eaten on New Years Eve and New Years Day have important symbolic meanings. These symbols seem to fall into several major categories.

The first class symbolizes financial prosperity. This type of food is round like coins. Often, the dish will be round beans, like lentils, that will expand when it cooks, symbolizing expanding fortunes. Another financial symbol is food with big green leaves, representing paper money. The green may also be for growth. Foods like this are cabbage, collard greens and kale. Golden colored foods are also good for financial rewards in the New Year.

The second type of New Years food symbol represents the hope of having food on the table throughout the year. Pork is one important symbol of eating well year round. It’s also a sign of prosperity. In the olden times, if your family had a pig, you were doing well!

In some countries, actually having food on your table and/or plates at the stroke of midnight is a sign that you’ll have food throughout the year.

A third symbol involves eating sweet food in order to have a sweet year. In some countries people bake a coin in a sweet cake and the person who gets the coin will have good luck throughout the year. In Spain, Portugal, and parts of South and Central America, 12 sweet grapes, one for each month of the year, are eaten at midnight. The hope is to eat 12 sweet grapes to have 12 sweet months!

Fish is thought to symbolize good luck in many countries.

Another symbol for good luck involves eating food in a ring shape – like doughnuts or ring shaped cakes. This represents coming full circle to successfully complete the year – that’s good luck.

In Japan, long Buckwheat Soba noodles symbolize long life. Just don’t break them while you’re eating them!

Here’s a list of some symbolic food types and the places where they’re eaten for the New Year. Feel free to let us know what’s eaten for New Years in your country, in the comments below.

Round Food (Like Coins for Monetary Luck)

Italy, Brazil & Germany (Lentils)
Germany (Pancakes)
Philippines (Round Fruit)
Southern US (Black-eyed Peas)

Green Leafy Vegetables (Like Paper Money for Monetary Luck)

Southern USA (Collard Greens & Turnips)
Denmark (Kale)
Germany (Sauerkraut)

Golden Food (Like Gold for Monetary Luck)

Southern USA (Corn Bread)

Pig (Symbol of Plentiful Food in the New Year)

Hungary (Roast suckling pig with a 4 leaf clover in its mouth)
Italy (Cotechino con lenticchie – pork sausage with lentils)
Germany (Kassler mit Sauerkraut – financial luck)
Pennsylvania Dutch (USA – Pork with Sauerkraut)
Austria
China

Food on the Table or Plate at Midnight (Symbol of Plentiful Food in the New Year)

Germany
Philippines

Sweets (Symbolic of a Sweet Year or Good Luck)

Hungary (Doughnuts)
Greece (Round cake called Vasilopita – made with a coin baked inside – whoever gets the coin is lucky throughout the year)
Israel (Jewish New Year – Apple dipped in honey & grapes)
India
Egypt (Candy for kids)
Korea (Sweet Fruits)
Norway (Rice Pudding with an almond inside – good luck to the one who gets the almond)

12 Grapes at Midnight (Symbolizing 12 Sweet Months)

Spain
Portugal
Mexico
Cuba
Ecuador
Peru

Ring Shaped Food (Good Luck)

Mexico (Rosca de Reyes – Luck)
Netherlands (Olie Bollen – Doughnut)

Fish (Symbol of Good Luck)

Germany (Herring & Carp)
Poland (Pickled Herring)
Denmark (Boiled Cod)
Italy (Dried Salted Cod)
Japan (Red Snapper – Pink is a lucky color)
Vietnam (Carp)
China
Sweden (Seafood Salad)

A Happy, Lucky and Prosperous New Year to All of You!

Mama Lisa

Many thanks to Ed Gawlinski for pointing out that they eat lentils in Italy for the New Year, which lead me on this long quest that resulted in this discussion!

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