GumGum EMEA Celebrates Happy Lunar New Year 🧧

Happy Lunar New Year! 🎉

This year, in EMEA, GumGummers celebrated Lunar New Year by learning how to make dumplings in a virtual cooking class with Kara Petrocelli.

Some history about the Chinese Dumpling:

Chinese cooks have enjoyed stuffed dumplings, known as jiaozi for more than 1,800 years. According to legend, Chinese stuffed dumplings were invented during the Han Dynasty by a man named Zhang Zhongjian. The event occurred when Zhang returned to his ancestral village during the winter, after a long absence. He noticed that many of his fellow citizens were suffering from frostbite, particularly around their ears. As a way to solve this problem, Zhang cooked up a batch of mutton, chili and healing herbs and wrapped them in scraps of dough. He folded the dumplings to look like little ears, boiled them and handed them out to his afflicted neighbors. Who knows if they cured frostbite, but the villagers loved the taste of Zhang’s creation so much that they kept making the dumplings long after spring began. - History.com