 Oaxaca, Mexico -According to tradition, to ensure good luck, a plate should be broken for every bunuelo eaten.
Germany-Christmas is symbolized by the 500 year old tradition of making a holiday bread called Stollen.
Italy-Panettone is the most traditional of Italian Christmas cakes. It has been sold in Milan since medieval times.
Greece-A Greek housewife always marks the Christmas bread with her handprint before baking it. This is done as a reminder to her children that Jesus is important on this holy day.
Spain-Dried fruits are used in every course from soup to desserts, including the Christmas Seventh Heaven cake.
Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica-Made from cinnamon, cloves, sugar, orange peel, and rum, and dried sorrel sepals, the Sorrel drink can be found in every home during the Christmas season. Christmas dinner is pork served with black beans, rice, and/or gungo peas.
Quebec,Canada–It‘s generations-old tradition that meat pie be eaten at Christmas and Easter:
Ireland-People go in the front door and out the back door, at midnight on Christmas Eve to ensure good luck.
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