{"id":4532,"date":"2025-10-02T11:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:27:02","slug":"fun-food-fact-which-sweets-did-the-bride-hand-out-to-single-girlfriends-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/fun-food-fact-which-sweets-did-the-bride-hand-out-to-single-girlfriends-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Food Fact: which sweets did the bride hand out to single girlfriends in the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Middle East, the tradition of bathing has been known for centuries, in which the bride-to-be was \u201cpurified\u201d by female relatives over a few days, often in a bath of milk and in a cloud of incense. This cleansing was said to be essential for the success of her marriage. Meanwhile, the older women gave her tips on how to be a sensual wife to her husband. Afterwards, the bride shared <strong>honey and oranges<\/strong> with her single friends, wishing them luck in their own search for a husband. Seems relaxing to us, such a hammam party!<\/p>\n<p>Does a bachelor party on a culinary level sound like something for the bride or groom to be? For example, a patisserie or bonbon making workshop. Possibly combined with a High Tea with bubbles. Contact Eat2Gather for the possibilities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Middle East, the tradition of bathing has been known for centuries, in which the bride-to-be was \u201cpurified\u201d by female relatives over a few days, often in a bath of milk and in a cloud of incense. This cleansing was said to be essential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w-eet-jes-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eat2gather.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}