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Making Stock of the Christmas Feast
Holiday feasts are the gifts that keep on giving – and I don’t mean the leftovers. You can do great things with the bones from your roast, whatever than might be, and the vegetables that didn’t get used. Yes, I’m…
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Scandinavian Christmas Traditions
In mid-December Scandinavia, it’s dark – just six hours of light each day. The sun rises in Oslo at around 9:20 a.m. and sets at about 3:15 in the afternoon. Winter is setting in now, and the locals are happy…
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Just a Small Group This Year? Deck the Halls Anyway!
For many of us, this holiday season could be the “small-idays” – smaller get-togethers. I’ve heard from any number of friends who plan to keep their festivities intimate, just with two or four for Christmas dinner. One couple is planning…
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Holiday Feasts and Ideas for You from Around the World
When I think about the holidays, I think food, of course. After all, humans have been feasting during this time of year for thousands of years, when midwinter celebrations and the attendant traditional foods were prepared. It’s tempting to become…
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Bring Me Some Figgy Pudding!
You have to love a tradition that’s based on a six-century-old recipe. On Thanksgiving Friday, Mrs. Farmboy happily continued one of her own holiday rituals (suspended last year): creation of her Christmas plum pudding. It’s the Christmas tradition that was…
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Party Time! It’s Asian New Year
For our Asian friends, this is the season to celebrate the new year, the most important and festive annual holiday, with big feasts, family gatherings, and fun traditions. Many traditions are based on an ancient myth of a monster named…
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Keeping Holiday Traditions Alive
As we leave 2020 behind, the holiday feasts are memories to savor, and we look hopefully toward the future, have you thought about keeping a diary of your experiences? For most of us, I suspect that this unusual holiday season…
