Dinner or Supper? I used the terms interchangeably most of my life until I was invited to an Epiphany dinner. The meal was elegant and intentionally derived to mark what the prior year had held for each dinner guest. Epiphany is the season in the church calendar when we feast to celebrate the wise men's successful journey to find baby Jesus. It is told, the wise men had to ration their food as they searched for the newborn king since they didn't know when they would find him. They had no idea their journey would involve two years of searching. When they did reach the town where Jesus was staying, everyone put bread and cakes outside their houses for the wise men to feast, celebrating the end of their journey. This is where we get the French tradition of king cakes.
While I was enthralled by the tradition of an Epiphany dinner, this year I found myself in Milan, Italy, on Epiphany, standing in front of Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper. Wrong meal perhaps.
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