Everyone’s favourite festive activity this time of the year is to drive around town or walk along bylanes for an indulgent view of Christmas decorations. In Catholic households, apart from the décor, folks put their heads together every year to think up ingenious crib ideas. It’s not uncommon to see elves hauling tiny buckets of mud, lemongrass and sticks from the garden for an authentic crib structure. We have even seen inspiration being borrowed from school projects with sprouts grown on a bed of cotton for papier-mache cattle to graze on. There are no limits to creativity, yet we reckoned it was impossible to come across something new. Like an edible nativity scene.

Sequeira’s sugar crib from 2020