‘Less regretti, eat more spaghetti.’
Food Journal
Christmas is a very big feast in Italy. Ofcourse when you hear ‘feast’ you think about food. But which food?
What Italians eat a lot around Christmas is ‘Cenone della Vigilia’ it’s actually Christmas eve dinner, you can see it as the name of what they eat on Christmas eve.
They eat a lot of fish on Christmas eve, that’s why they call it ‘the feast of the seven fishes’ or ‘festa dei sette pesci’ in Italian. The fishes they eat are anchovies, whiting, lobster, sardines, baccalà (dried salt cod), smelts, eels, squid, octopus, shrimp, mussels and clams. The menu can also include pasta, vegetables, baked good and (ofcourse) wine.
After all that food, there still is the dessert, right? Well, in Italy they always eat sweet bread after their Christmas dinner, Panettone and Pandoro.
Panettone is an Italian luxury loaf orcake with fruits and originally it origines from Milan. Nowadays it is also made with a lot of other things, such as chocolate or limoncello.
Pandoro is a bit simpler, it is an greasy, high, cake with powdered sugar spread over it.
We mostly have like 10 panettones and pandoros underneath our Christmas tree, in all sizes, tastes, and different (special) boxes.
- Serena
