Christmas Dinner Traditions

Christmas is a festive season where one can enjoy thoroughly with friends and family. The holiday season gives an individual an opportunity to spend quality time with family. One can participate in cleaning and decorating home and the surroundings. The entire family can go out for shopping of a Christmas tree. Once the tree is brought home, the entire family can decorate it with fruits, nuts, ornaments, tinsel and lights. The entire atmosphere is filled with gusto, hope and happiness during Christmas holiday season. The people all around the world celebrate Christmas with feasts, parties and family reunion. Food is an important part of Christmas celebration across the world.

Traditionally during Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve or Christmas day, delicious and sumptuous food is served all over the world. There are various preparations of meat, fish, turkey, goose served with various types of soups, vegetables and breads. The dessert has cakes, cookies, puddings, sweets made out in different styles. The food changes from one nation to other. The tradition of Christmas dinner differs from one culture to other. The Christmas feasts have food preparation that is traditional and unique in taste. Turkey preparations are common in many cultures during Christmas festival.

Let's take a look at the Christmas dinner traditions of some counties of world:

• France: The special dinner served on Christmas Eve in France is called as Revellion. The dinner is quite grand and goes up to the wee hours of Christmas day. The food served during dinner has goose, roasted duck, smoked salmon, oysters and so on. The Christmas cake is prepared in form of log and has flavors like hazelnut, chocolate, etc. The cake is served as a desert with champagne.

• Denmark: The traditional Christmas dinner is served on Christmas Eve in Denmark. The main dish is roasted pork and goose. Potatoes, cabbage and other vegetables are served. The drink is in form of beer that is brewed for the festive season. The desert is in form of a rice pudding in cherry or strawberry sauce with almonds. This desert is called as Risalamands.

• Australia: Christmas is celebrated during summer in Australia. Therefore, meats like chicken, ham, turkey is served cold during traditional Christmas dinner. Prawns are quite often sees in the dinner. Barbeque is used during dinner. The desert served is Pavlova made out of seasonal fruits like mangoes and cherries.

• United Kingdom: The Christmas dinner is usually served in afternoon in UK. The roasted turkey is served with other forms of meat like pork, goose, ham with boiled vegetables like potatoes, carrots and sprouts. The deserts like plum pudding, Christmas cake, mince pies are commonly served.

• United States: The traditional Christmas dinner is served on Christmas Eve in United States. The food changes according to the states in the country. The main dish served during dinner is roasted turkey with ham, pork and beef. Vegetables like mashed potatoes, corn, green beans are served with meat. The deserts commonly seen are carrot cake, pumpkin pie, fruit cake, apple pie and so on.