While pancakes are the typical Shrove Tuesday food in most of the US, some states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama ...

This year, 4 March is Shrove Tuesday - otherwise known as Pancake Day. Shrove Tuesday is a Christian festival marked all over ...

See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Shrove Tuesday, which falls on March 4 this year ... But pancakes — in all sorts of forms, made from all sorts of ingredients ...

The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings.

Hundreds of people packed into Guildhall Yard, cheering as participants in the annual Inter-Livery Pancake Race ran around ... or Fat Tuesday, in other parts of the world, the name Shrove Tuesday ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London ...