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Family Holiday Traditions - What are yours? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Dravin@lemmy.world to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

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Hearing about other people's traditions is often interesting. When my wife and I got married we decided to start a Christmas Eve tradition where we'd pick a country and plan out a dinner consisting of items from it. We're making sure we've got the necessary ingredients for this year's meal and it brought to mind how comforting and fun family traditions can be.

So what does your family do this time of year (or any time of the year) that you look forward to and helps make the holiday feel like the holiday for you?

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I follow Tasting History! That channel is amazing, it's the perfect mix of theoretical and practical. And it's also great to have someone actually testing and showing the recipes before I try them, adapting them straight from the source is a pain (I do this sometimes with De Re Coquinaria, but I'd rather not).

The palace cake is from another channel, The World that Was. A third one that I'd recommend is Townsends, specifically for British/NA 1700s food.

Often the result is “Huh…” and we enjoy the experience even if the dish isn’t a new favorite but every once in a while we stumble across something that ends up joining our repertoire.

I think that I'm the only one doing it for the sake of history. My folks are more like "I like this", "I don't like that". Isicia omentata (Roman burgers) was such a success that it became part of the main rotation, while tuh'u (Sumerian beet and meat stew) was... well, I liked it but my folks hated it.