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Menus and italian step-by-step photographed recipes for
celebration days and events. From this table you can follow the links to step-by-step
photographed recipes and menus made for the celebration days 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
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the great celebrations days |
All Saints Day and All Souls Day
1st and 2nd November
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All Saints Day is a Christian tradition
which goes back up to the 13th of may 610 bc, although the tradition of
dedicating a day to all the martyrs and saints is older. 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".
see recipes
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 Christmas
25 December
A menu for Christmas Dinner with less than 500
calories: 5 step-by-step photographed recipes |
Christmas, in the Italian
tradition, is the main celebration day of the family and
naturally the most liked place for its celebration is the table! The
traditional recipes for this event 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
see recipes
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The last year night and New Yar's Day
31st December - 1st Juanuary
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of the year up to the first day of the new year people eat food whose symbolic
value is traditionally
linked to the fertitilty: particulary are considered symbol of good chance
lentils and rice, which symbolise the money: so it is necessary to eat much of
them for becoming reach during the new year! 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 first year menu! | | Saint Valentine
14th
February | The day of Saint Valentine
is a celebration day from English and Northern American tradition. In this day
the lovers show their love each to other with gifts and,naturally, with
special food. There is not historical proof for connecting Saint Valentine with
the romantic love...But the tradition, wich began with a poem of Chaucer,
wants this saint as couples protector. |  Easter  |
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 this celebration day
are all connected with the meaning of this miraculous event: are present in each
menu the eggs, due to their symbolic value of transmutation
see recipes |
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