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Celebrations
Croatians in the United States proudly and regularly celebrate their culture, heritage, and traditions with their families and with other Croatians, p
Humitas and tamales are often said in the same breath—both are labor-intensive, corn-based dough dishes stuffed with various fillings.
It wasn’t until I was a teenager that I realized nobody else I know partakes in this combination of delicacies on Christmas.
Leap Day has long been a source of contention and confusion, signaling to us that things are not quite right.
In many Slavic Christian traditions, the bread tells fortunes and predicts good luck and prosperity,
The New Year’s Eve revelries of my mother’s Soviet childhood were notoriously grand affairs. New Year’s Eve in my post-Soviet, Midwestern household is decidedly not.
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