Trick or Treat!
Hey foodies. It is here!! Halloween is here!! Every year, we all brainstorm the spookiest outfits, makeup ideas, eat a lot of candy, and wish to carve a pumpkin. Although, it is not celebrated on a large scale in India, like in the west. We all love Halloween. It gives us a Lil excuse to dress up and party with our friends and family. ‘All hallows eve’ or ‘Halloween’ originates from the festival of Samhain among the Celts of ancient Britain and Ireland. The celebration marks the day before the Western Christian feast of ‘all saints’ and initiates the season of ‘Allhallowtide’, which lasts three days and concludes with ‘all soul’s day’. This is considered as the beginning of winter. This day is a pivotal time as the seasons' change, but, more importantly, observers believed the boundary between this world and the next becomes very thin, enabling us to connect to the dead. Spooky enough, right! Hence, the ‘haunted’ connotations with Halloween. Over the years, ways of celebrating Hal