Some thoughts on Chrismas Food
Aug 22nd, 2008 by Admin
As Christmas draws closer, do you have a spare thought for what you are contributing to?
Researchers from the UK have calculated that the carbon footprint of all the Christmas dinners eaten in the UK this year will be the same as driving around the world 6000 times!
Although there is a visible interest in western foods including fast foods, there also is an interest in foods from other regions, like Asia. So it is possible that new Asian dishes will be created for festive seasons while others may prefer to eat the very best of the very traditional.
Specific foods are associated with the feasts, but may differ nationally. Complete fast days (no food or water from sunset to sunset) include Yom Kippur and Tisha b’Av. Partial fast days (no food or water from sunrise to sunset) include Tzom Gedaliah, Tenth of Tevet and Seventeenth of Tamuz, Ta’anit ster, and Ta’anit Bechorim.
Chinese sweet ham is a popular centrepiece for Christmas Eve dinner in the Philippines, where the affluent serve up roast pig or turkey. Filipinos pride themselves on celebrating the longest Christmas in
the world, with decorations going up in September.
Christmas pudding and mince pies always make an appearance on the Christmas table. Such a magnificent dinner should have a light starter: consomme or a light creamy soup. Receive your guests with a glass of warm mulled wine.
The table will be decked out in festive linen and a traditional Christmas cracker will sit on each table
place for the dinners to crack open, with the help of neighbor dinners, of course.
Simbang gabi is one of the traditions being practiced by Filipinos before the day of Christmas. Usually Simbang Gabi starts nine days before Christmas. But what really is the true meaning of Simbang
Gabi?