{"id":18453,"date":"2014-11-29T02:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T10:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18453"},"modified":"2014-11-29T02:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T10:22:51","slug":"brace-yourself-for-storybook-christmas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/brace-yourself-for-storybook-christmas-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace Yourself for Storybook Christmas Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/yobridg.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIF. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/bracebridge-dinner-is-annual-tradition-at-yosemite-national-park.html\">Each year before Christmas<\/a> Yosemite&#8217;s crown jewel for holiday traditions, the Ahwahnee Dining Room, with a 34-foot-high beamed ceiling and large sugar pine trestles that complement the room&#8217;s granite pillars and floor-to-ceiling windows, resonates with music, laughter and 100 voices ringing out in holiday cheer. The return of the Bracebridge Dinner\u00a0with\u00a0its passionate\u00a0cast, crew, and loyal fans, relives a tradition that began in 1927 when the hotel\u00a0first opened. The inspiration for this yuletide ceremony that famed photographer Ansel Adams helped create and promote is Washington Irving&#8217;s Sketch Book which describes Squire Bracebridge and English Christmas traditions\u00a0of the 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>From Irving&#8217;s Old Christmas Sketch Book &#8211; The Christmas Dinner: &#8220;We were ushered into this banqueting scene with the sound of minstrelsy, the old harper being seated on a stool beside the fireplace, and twanging his instrument with a vast deal more power than melody. Never did Christmas board display a more goodly and gracious assemblage of countenances: those who were not handsome were, at least, happy; and happiness is a rare improver of your hard-favoured visage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRACEBRIDGE DINNER: December 13-25, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 hour play about a Christmas Dinner. 100 cast member interaction with the audience includes Christmas carols and the 7-course meal delivery, staged to the\u00a0story line.<\/li>\n<li>Held at Ahwahnee, a National Historic Landmark, in Yosemite National Park<\/li>\n<li>Cost is around $400<\/li>\n<li>Call (801) 559-4884 to purchase dinner-only tickets<\/li>\n<li>Menu in 2014 includes: Fresh &amp; Smoked Rainbow Trout Mousse, Sonoma Duck Confit Strudel, Herb Roasted Angus Beef Tenderloin, Plum Pudding &amp; Wassail, and Mignardise dessert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIF. &#8212; Each year before Christmas Yosemite&#8217;s crown jewel for holiday traditions, the Ahwahnee Dining Room, with a 34-foot-high beamed ceiling and large sugar pine trestles that complement the room&#8217;s granite pillars and floor-to-ceiling windows, resonates with music, laughter and 100 voices ringing out in holiday cheer. The return of the Bracebridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}