Italian Christmas dinners are multi-course feasts that vary by region, but they all share a focus on abundance, family, and traditional recipes. Here's a general breakdown of the courses you can ...

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they brought with them traditional foods and customs surrounding the holidays. They also invented a new one: the Feast of the Seven Fishes. The Italian American Christmas Eve tradition is believed ...

From the classic double-baked biscotti to a mountain of bite-sized, honey-covered fried dough balls know as struffoli, Italian sweets have always been a Christmas staple for my Italian family and ...

It still makes us hungry. Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Seven Fishes is, by Italian Catholic tradition, supposed to be a penitential meal, and it may be, depending on your view of eel ...

If you're from an Italian-American family, you may want to pay attention to this latest food recall as ... courses is served on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24). Some traditional dishes typically served ...

The origin of this Italian tradition is shrouded in ... “These are our traditional Christmas Eve family recipes,” the preface reads. “Some have been made on every ‘Big Night’ for years ...