Christmas

A traditional British Christmas dinner is the most famous holiday meal in the English-speaking world — roast turkey with all the trimmings, Christmas pudding set alight, crackers pulled, and paper

Mexican Christmas food — tamales and pozole at its heart — is one of the world’s great holiday cuisines: communal, labor-intensive, and built for feeding a crowd through the long

The Polish Wigilia 12 dishes tradition is one of Europe’s most beautiful Christmas customs: on Christmas Eve (Wigilia, from the Latin vigilia — “vigil”), Polish families sit down to a

A French Christmas dinner menu for Réveillon is France’s most luxurious night of eating — a late, candlelit feast held on Christmas Eve that unfolds course by course past midnight,

Italian Christmas dinner traditions are among the most food-obsessed in the world — and in Italy, Christmas dinner isn’t one meal but two: the fish-centered Cenone della Vigilia (the “big

Filipino Christmas food — the Noche Buena feast — is the centerpiece of the longest Christmas season on Earth. In the Philippines, Christmas begins in September (the “ber months”), carols

Christmas traditions in Venezuela turn December into the loudest, most joyful, most delicious month of the year — a season where entire cities wake before dawn to skate to church,

Coptic Christmas in Egypt is one of the world’s most profound Christmas celebrations — and one of its least known in the West. On January 7th, while the rest of

Christmas traditions in Ukraine are among Europe’s oldest and most poetic: a candlelit Holy Supper of twelve meatless dishes eaten on Christmas Eve, a sheaf of wheat called the didukh

Christmas traditions in Switzerland are the stuff of storybooks: candlelit Advent windows glowing in medieval old towns, Christmas markets steaming with mulled wine beneath snow-dusted peaks, and the smell of

Christmas traditions in the Netherlands are really two holidays in one — and understanding that duality is the key to the Dutch December. Weeks before most countries hang their first

Christmas traditions in the Philippines begin in September. Not metaphorically — literally. The moment the calendar flips to a month ending in “-ber,” Filipino radio stations switch to Christmas music,