Every year, about a million visitors attend New Orleans's exciting Mardi Gras festival in February or March. Shrove Tuesday is a time of celebration in many countries. It corresponds with Fastnacht in Germany and Mardi Gras in France and the Southern United States. The English celebrate Shrove Tuesday as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day. They traditionally cook and eat flat, thin pancakes on that day.
Pancakes are probably the oldest prepared food.
The first pancakes were a mixture of pounded grain and water spread on a hot stone. Today, people enjoy such pancake variations as French crepes, Hungarian palacintas, Indian dosai, Italian cannelloni, Jewish blintzes, and Russian blini. Shrove Tuesday is a time of celebration in many countries. It corresponds with Fastnacht in Germany and Mardi Gras in France and the Southern United States. The English celebrate Shrove Tuesday as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day.