William Ronald
Explorer
Hello, everyone.
I found an article on holiday feasts around the world in the Chicago Tribune, and I thought I would post some information here. Consider these little tidbits something you can insert in your own campaigns. (If the characters attend a feast, they may see some of these items on the table.)
Argentina: Christmas dinners usually include barbecue favorites such as roast peacock or suckling pig.
Finland: Macaroni casserolers filled with carrots, ham, potatoes, and turkey. A mixed platter of fish or meat also is served.
Greenland: Christmas dinner often includes penguin-like birds called little auks. They are wrapped in seal skin, and buried underground for several months. When they are nearly rotten, they are ready. I imagine the birds must have a very gamey taste. (Zouron, can you comment on this?)
Italy: Dinner can last four hours, and cheese chocolates, meat, pasta, puddomgs. pasta, and salad are often served.
Norway: People on the coast often eat fish, while people further inland tend to eat pork.
Portugal: Often, a dried codfish is for dinner, and a popular desert are strips of bread soaked in eggs and wine, covered with sugar and fried until crusty.
Russia: Cakes, pies, dumblings, and the porridge called kutya are often on the menu.
Singapore: A traditional holiday dish is curry devil which is made from ham bones, sausages, roast pork, carrots, potatoes, cabbage and spices. Pickled salad is also popular.
Zimbabwe: Churches sometimes serve feasts with roast goat or ox, and cornmeal porridge.
I found an article on holiday feasts around the world in the Chicago Tribune, and I thought I would post some information here. Consider these little tidbits something you can insert in your own campaigns. (If the characters attend a feast, they may see some of these items on the table.)
Argentina: Christmas dinners usually include barbecue favorites such as roast peacock or suckling pig.
Finland: Macaroni casserolers filled with carrots, ham, potatoes, and turkey. A mixed platter of fish or meat also is served.
Greenland: Christmas dinner often includes penguin-like birds called little auks. They are wrapped in seal skin, and buried underground for several months. When they are nearly rotten, they are ready. I imagine the birds must have a very gamey taste. (Zouron, can you comment on this?)
Italy: Dinner can last four hours, and cheese chocolates, meat, pasta, puddomgs. pasta, and salad are often served.
Norway: People on the coast often eat fish, while people further inland tend to eat pork.
Portugal: Often, a dried codfish is for dinner, and a popular desert are strips of bread soaked in eggs and wine, covered with sugar and fried until crusty.
Russia: Cakes, pies, dumblings, and the porridge called kutya are often on the menu.
Singapore: A traditional holiday dish is curry devil which is made from ham bones, sausages, roast pork, carrots, potatoes, cabbage and spices. Pickled salad is also popular.
Zimbabwe: Churches sometimes serve feasts with roast goat or ox, and cornmeal porridge.
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