Every year on December 12th, Geneva celebrates Escalade. Back in the 1600's, the story goes that a woman stopped a middle of the night attack on Geneva by pouring hot soup and the cauldron it was in on the men climbing up ladders over the city wall. The invasion was stopped and Geneva was saved. In order to celebrate this day, they break chocolate cauldrons of every size (some quite large) filled with marzipan vegetables. They also serve soup and sing a really long song in French retelling the whole story. Although we skipped the official parties, we had our own little celebration at home.
Ruby, Christina, Henry and Alex
Our chocolate cauldron
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