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| ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE From this table you can follow the links to holyday and celebration recipes with pictures of the Catholic and laic tradition. Our attention is concentrated in all the regional traditions and in the symbolic value given to the food across the time. Easter recipes, Christmas recipes, late night menu, all-saints day, all-souls.day, halloween.
1st and 2nd November meini The celebration of All Souls Day is pre Christian and the use to celebrate it the first days of november has a Celtic origin. As for each traditional celebration day there are culinary traditions, particulary it is used to prepare special cakes as "Bread of Dead","meini" and "Beans of the Dead". bread of dead 25 December A menu for Christmas Dinner with less than 500 calories: 5 step-by-step photographed recipes The traditional recipes for Christmas menu are very various, as our cuisine, so it would be very difficult to mention all and maybe not necessary. Every family has its own unavoidable recipe, but also new recipes are welcome...the important is to be together Among the cakes the most known are the Panettone of Milan and the Pandoro of Verona. The only point is the difficulty they require for being prepared in the home oven. Otherwise there are other very good and easy to prepare as the Bisciola from Valtellina, here in the in the picture, the cream of mascarpone and tronchetto di natale The last year night and New Yar's Day lobster spaghetti For the llate night menu the pork is also considered of good chance, as in the past it was considered a rich food (there was few meat on the tables). So cotechino and zampone are "mandatory" in the late night menu! 14th February colomba pasquale It is the most important of all the Christian celebration days, due to the fact that it is celebrated the resurrection of Jesus. The recipes of the Italian tradition for Easter are all connected with the meaning of this miraculous event: are present in each menu the eggs, due to their symbolic value of transmutation
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