{"id":149955,"date":"2021-01-07T21:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/no-big-crowds-but-plenty-of-cake\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:04:17","slug":"no-big-crowds-but-plenty-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-big-crowds-but-plenty-of-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"#No big crowds, but plenty of cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#No big crowds, but plenty of cake<\/strong>”
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NEW ORLEANS \u2014 A subdued Carnival season began Wednesday after the coronavirus pandemic put an end to the crowd-heavy balls and street parades that draw thousands of people to the city every year.<\/p>\n

The Mardi Gras season always starts on Jan. 6 and ends on Fat Tuesday, which this year falls on Feb. 16. The season is usually marked by extravagant balls and parades where costumed riders throw trinkets to the mobs of people packed along the parade routes.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus has put an end to those large events. But that has not stopped notoriously creative New Orleanians from coming up with social<\/a>ly distant ways to celebrate.<\/p>\n

The Krewe de Jeanne d\u2019Arc\u00a0<\/a>is a club that annually pays homage to the fallen French hero with a parade through the French Quarter on the official start of the Carnival season. This year, the krewe hosted a \u201cTableaux de Jeanne d\u2019Arc,\u201d where onlookers drove by various \u201ctableaux\u201d \u2014 a French term for \u201cliving pictures\u201d \u2014 that included stations of costumed revelers sparring as knights, sharpening their swords and feasting at a grand fireplace with a pig roasting in the background.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife as usual is gone, so we had to look for different ways of doing things this year,\u201d said Antoinette de Alteriis, one of the club\u2019s captains.<\/p>\n

The Phunny Phorty Phellows<\/a>, a group that usually gathers Jan. 6 to mark the beginning of the season with a costumed party on a street car, also altered its plans. Usually throngs of people gather at the facility where the street car starts its journey to see the group off, but this year people were asked to disperse along the street car route and watch from there instead.<\/p>\n

But people can still eat cake \u2014 king cake that is. The sweet cakes, which are decorated with the official Carnival colors of purple, green and gold, are only to be eaten starting on Jan.6.<\/p>\n

In Mobile, Alabama, dozens of parades, balls and other events also have been canceled. The city on the Gulf of Mexico calls itself the birthplace of Mardi Gras since celebrations began there a few years earlier than in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

Coastal Alabama typically begins its observances later in January than New Orleans, meaning the current coronavirus surge could be easing by the time events were set to start. But multiple organizations began announcing cancellations last month to protect the health of members and revelers.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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