Italian soups are great for a Christmas dinner as a first course. Here are some Italian soups you’ll enjoy. Plus you can make them in advance and keep in the freezer and remove them the day before.

Spumante, a sparkling wine, is the drink of choice. As for the famous Italian Christmas meal of the feast of the seven fishes, Finardi says it’s limited mainly to the Campania region ...

The evening meal on Christmas Eve (La Vigilia) is traditionally based around fish, as a meat-free day before the decadence of the 25th. If you eat at an Italian home or restaurant on this date, you're ...

Ah, fluffy, fruity, delicious panettone ― it’s the perfect Christmas gift or dinner party pressie ... ll admit I’ve been bested by a suitably Italian classic. Scrolling through Nigella ...

The responses ranged from Italian classics to side dishes ... “We often enjoy this deliciously simple dish on Christmas Eve.” 1. Blend bread in a food processor. Add walnuts and blend until ...

There seem to be many steps here. This conceals the fact that this Christmas dessert is ludicrously, dazzlingly easy to make. It doesn’t require cooking or technical brilliance: it is merely an ...

where they have hosted a pre-Christmas Italian dinner for the community for 48 years. Their younger brother, RJ Collucia, has always felt like a failure, but, working as a dishwasher at an Italian ...

If you’re of Italian descent or an Italophile, Christmas Eve means not waiting ... elaborate in our country,” says Fred Plotkin, a food historian and co-author of Rick Steves Eating in Italy.