Bill Gates bakes an Oreo cake for Warren Buffett for his 90th birthday

 

Gates shared a touching blog with the cake baking video to mark Buffett's 90th birthday, recounting some of the most important things he learnt from him over the years.

Bengaluru: It's not often that you see one of the richest men in the world bake a birthday cakes online for a fellow friend and billionaire. But Warren Buffett turning 90 called for a special effort from his close friend Bill Gates.  The result- a sumptuous-looking Oreo cake with Buffett's image on top. 

Gates uploaded a video that showed him mixing flour, beating eggs, whipping cream and artistically arranging Oreo biscuits to make a cake for Buffett, who turned 90 on Sunday. Buffett famously sticks to a diet of mostly hamburgers, ice cream and Coke, and is known to indulge in a pack of Oreos for breakfast. Gates said the cake was in honour of his dietary preferences. 

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett- two of the world's most iconic billionaires are close friends who first met in 1991. 

Gates shared a touching blog with the cake baking video to mark Buffett's 90th birthday, recounting some of the most important things he learnt from him over the years. Both have pledged to give away most of their wealth to philanthropy. 

"It’s hard to believe that my close friend is entering his tenth decade. Warren has the mental sharpness of a 30-year-old, the mischievous laugh of a 10-year-old, and the diet of a 6-year-old. He once told me that he looked at the data and discovered that first-graders have the best actuarial odds, so he decided to eat like one," Gates said in his blog. 

He also said he learnt what friendship is all about from Buffett. 

"Of all the things I’ve learned from Warren, the most important thing might be what friendship is all about. As Warren himself put it a few years ago when we spoke with some college students, “You will move in the direction of the people that you associate with. So it’s important to associate with people that are better than yourself. The friends you have will form you as you go through life. Make some good friends, keep them for the rest of your life, but have them be people that you admire as well as like.A person that I admire as well as like—that's the perfect description of how I feel about Warren. Happy birthday, my friend."

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History of Birthday Celebrations: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know – And Then Some

 When you think about the history of birthday celebrations there are so many questions. From cakes and candles to presents and parties, so many things make up great birthdays. We’ve gathered the answers and the origins of the questions that you guys ask the most, and popped them all in one place for you.

The History of Birthdays

Birthdays started around 3,000 years before the common era, conceptualised by our good old friends the Egyptians. But not necessarily in the sense that we celebrate them today. Despite the clues in the name, you know, birth-day, day of birth, this isn’t what the Egyptians actually celebrated. When you boil it back down to the origins of birthdays, they were actually celebrating the birth of someone as a god.

“What’s that?” I hear you ask. What is birthday-becoming-god-celebration and what does it have to do with the Egyptians? Well, when pharaohs were crowned, it was considered that they had become a god. For them, and to be fair, anyone, the day man becomes a god is waaaaay up there above being actually, physically born.

The History of Birthday Candles and the Origin of Birthday Cake

Ladies and gentlemen, and those yet to make up their minds, this one goes out to… the Greeks. Super-early days the Greeks adopted those Ancient Egyptian birthdays, celebrating the birth of a god, and as you may well remember from those primary-school-project days, Greek culture was pretty big on gods and goddesses.

Enter Artemis, the lunar goddess. The Greeks had a thing for offering sacrifices to the gods and as a tribute to Artemis, one of the best inventions ever came to be. The Greeks would offer her moon-shaped cakes. Cakes which were adorned with lit candles. This two-part symbolisation birthed the traditional confectionary we now adore. The glowing radiance of the new-found birthday cake recreated the beauty of the moon. The candles signifying the sending of prayers.

The History of Birthday Celebration

The History of Gift Giving and the Origins of Birthday Gifts

The Romans were among the first people to celebrate birthdays as we know them. That being, they are probably the most succinct answer to “Why do we celebrate birthdays?”. The Romans were the first to celebrate the birth of the common man. They did this with lavish parties where they would shower the birthday boy with gifts, thus starting the history of birthday presents.

Unfortunately, though, it was a very much literal interpretation. The common man. That’s right, I couldn’t have experienced these birthday celebrations, alas, I would have to wait until around the 12th Century to take part – some eleven-hundred-and-something years later.

The History of Birthday Parties

Why celebrate birthdays without cake? Parties and cake go hand in hand, and we did cover this briefly earlier, with the sacrifices to the moon goddess Artemis conceiving the idea of a birthday cake. However, that is indeed not a happy birthday cake as we know and love it today, and nor is it a gull birthday celebration. The growth and progression of the history of birthday cake online is what sparked the birthday party. That is, well, a Kinder Surprise.

That’s right folks, German bakers pretty much revamped the best birthday cake online delivery to become the icing-topped-colourful-glory that we celebrate with today. By now, birthdays are pretty commonplace, both for men and women, pretty much all around the world. German birthday parties were held for children from the late 18th century. These parties were called Kinderfeste and very closely resembled birthday parties as we know and love them today. Each child would be given a cake with a candle on the top for each year of their life so far, as well as one extra for hope.

Making Birthdays Modern

Well, it took quite a considerable amount of time to get birthdays from the original concept of ‘I’ve-been-crowned’ to the celebrations that we know and love today. However, we’ve really upped our game in recent years when it comes to bringing birthdays into the future. Make the next birthday celebration a special one with personalised birthday gift ideas.

source - https://www.bagsoflove.co.uk/blog/history-of-birthday-everything-you-ever-needed-to-know/