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Vasilopita (7th Pr. School of Agii Anargyri)

Eve dinner and Christmas lunch

An indispensable ritual for the feast of Christmas are the Eve dinner and the Christmas lunch, which represent times when the family gathers around the table to consume an abundant food. Both Eve dinner that Christmas lunch are tied to the special menus, the first dominated by fish, the second from the meat. Both menus are still completed by Christmas cakes that in Italy are different from place to place. The traditional sweets of Rionero in Vulture are the mostaccioli, made with flour, sugar, eggs and cooked wine


and cauz'ncidd, puff pastry stuffed with chestnut cake

Christmas sweets

Although every region in Italy has its own tradition of sweets for Christmas the panettone, with pandoro, are the most common in our country. There are several stories about the origins of panettone many of which have as a protagonist Toni, a cook at the court of Ludovico Sforza, ruler of Milan.

Greek New Year Customs (7th Primary School of Agii Anargyri)

Our New Year customs. "Vasilopitta" is a special pie we cut when the year changes.