For many people, the holiday season is almost synonymous with a never-ending stream of meals from November until the end of the year. Does your grandma have a famous recipe for chocolate cake that she makes only once a year? Or maybe it’s a bachelor uncle’s famous casserole. Even when the extended family cannot spend the holidays together, almost every family has a unique dish or two that makes it feel like their traditional holiday. Each corner of the globe also has special dishes reserved almost exclusively for this time of the year. Whether it’s celebrating the Chinese New Year or feeding the man in the red suit who came down the chimney, here are some of the unique ways people around the world eat their way through the holiday season.
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