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Hi everyone, today's episode is Holy Knots, pretzels and the Easter season.

I don't know, I could have called this anything.

I'm gonna call it Easter pretzels. In the end I might call it something completely different

which you'll see reflected in the title of this episode before you even listen. So I hope you're doing well.

I am really excited about this episode because it combines two of my favorite things, food and history.

And we're going to talk about the origins of pretzels and how they relate to the in this case if you're

listening before April upcoming Easter holiday but in general you're just going to get to

know how this amazing delicious salty food came to be.

Before I get started I want to remind you that we have confirmed both our Northern Italy trip in June and our Rwanda trip in November.

So if you'd like to join me, there are spots left.

They are both spectacular trips.

That's why we keep doing them again and again.

And make sure that you're on the mailing list

because we just had our meeting for our 2025 trips

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