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Foodways
Wigilia is an event filled with folk foodways, which typically require a large Christmas wafer passed around the table to begin the meal and exactly twelve courses.
Through our food, we carry on the Hakka spirit wherever we go.
The white, grainy porridge risengrød is the only traditional Danish Christmas dish from the common people that has survived to the modern-day dining tables in Denmark.
For many foreigners, traditional Estonian Christmas food can be a bit daunting—probably because most people can’t even hear “boiled meat jelly” (sült) or “blood sausages” (verivorst) without flinching.
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