Christmas

=== Traditional cuisine ===
{{See also|Christmas food}}
[[File:Christmas Dinner Setting.jpg|thumb|right|[[Christmas dinner]] setting]]

A special [[Christmas dinner|Christmas family meal]] is traditionally an important part of the holiday's celebration, and the food that is served varies greatly from country to country. Some regions have special meals for Christmas Eve, such as [[Sicily]], where twelve kinds of fish are served. In the United Kingdom and countries influenced by its traditions, a standard Christmas meal includes turkey, goose or other large bird, gravy, potatoes, vegetables, sometimes bread and cider. Special desserts are also prepared, such as [[Christmas pudding]], [[mince pie]]s, [[Christmas cake]], and latterly [[Panettone]] and [[Yule log (cake)|Yule log]].<ref>Broomfield, Andrea (2007), [https://books.google.com/books?id=fJ_JDp9OgJEC&dq=christmas+pudding+england&pg=PA149 ''Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025140408/https://books.google.com/books?id=fJ_JDp9OgJEC&pg=PA149&dq=christmas+pudding+england |date=October 25, 2022 }}, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, pp. 149–150.</ref><ref>Muir, Frank (1977), ''Christmas customs & traditions'', Taplinger Pub. Co., 1977, p. 58.</ref> A traditional Christmas meal in Central Europe features fried [[carp]] or other fish.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carp for Christmas: the odd Central European tradition explained |url=https://kafkadesk.org/2018/12/09/carp-for-christmas-the-odd-central-european-tradition-explained/ |work=Kafkadesk |date=December 9, 2018}}</ref>