Archive for February, 2010
Valentine’s Day
by admin on Feb.14, 2010, under Fun Concepts
Valentine's Day Chocolate
Saint Valentine’s Day (commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines“). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
Nando’s Restaurant
by admin on Feb.09, 2010, under Fun Concepts
Nando's Restaurant
The restaurant is named after Nandie , the son of Fernando Duarte, a Portugese national living in South Africa. He and a friend, Robert Brozin, bought a restaurant called Chickenland in Rosettenville, southern Johannesburg, in 1987. This became the first Nando’s restaurant, which incorporated influences from former Portuguese colonists from Mozambique, many of whom had settled on the south-eastern side of Johannesburg, after their homeland’s independence in 1975.