| | | | | | | Presented By Amazon | | | | Axios Finish Line | | By Mike Allen, Erica Pandey and Jim VandeHei ·Dec 20, 2022 | | Dec 20, 2022 | | Welcome back! Smart Brevity™ count: 598 words ... 2½ mins. | | | | | | 1 big thing: How you celebrate with food |  | | | Illustration: Tiffany Herring/Axios | | | | You made our mouths water with delectable descriptions of your holiday food traditions. - Why it matters: Finish Line readers from all over shared dishes that have been in their families for generations — many with deep cultural roots, brought to the U.S. by immigrant parents and grandparents.
Here's a selection of holiday dishes and their stories for your delight: - "My children have insisted on strawberry crepes for Christmas breakfast every year since they were little. Little do they know it became a tradition because I was so poor — single mom of four kids — I couldn't afford meat or cereal. Crepes were cheap to make, but seemed special, and a single packet of frozen strawberries went a long way."
- "I love the tradition now because it reminds me of the joy we shared over a simple meal." —Kathy K., Minneapolis, Minnesota
- "I'm the second generation of Bulgarian and Macedonian immigrants. ... Now in my fifties, I carry on baking baklava and banitsa (the Bulgarian version of spanakopita)." —John K., North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
- "The holiday foods that take me right back to being a little kid in my mom's kitchen? All of her Christmas cookies! I still bake them all — 13 or 15 different kinds — and the recipes were my grandmother's passed down to my mom."
- "And now my son helps bake them as well — so the tradition lives on." —Alice H., Lawrenceville, New Jersey
- "Breakfast casserole the morning of Christmas — never with a recipe — and always different! (Oh, and always good!) 20+ years." —Kelly A., Fairbanks, Alaska
- "Like most Jews, my family always did the classic latkes with applesauce and/or sour cream. When I met my husband, he blew my mind with this delicious and extravagant combo: latkes with crème fraiche, smoked salmon and caviar. We try to have it at least once during the eight days." —Carly S., Denver, Colorado
- "On 'Little Christmas Eve' (lille julaften), our family comes together to eat a traditional Norwegian food called rakfisk, a salted and autolyzed trout. It's extremely pungent and makes the house smell like rotten fish. Luckily, it tastes better than it smells." —Eilif R., Sandefjord, Norway
- "Arancini di Riso, Sicilian rice balls, has been a traditional dish in our family every Christmas. So many wonderful memories of childhood. The fragrances, flavors and families cooking and eating together makes our Christmas Eve so very special." —Joe S., Ashford, Connecticut
- "Pierogis, my Polish grandmother's recipe, which we recreate via assembly line. Someone is on the dough mix, the dough crank, the cutting out of the perfect-sized circles courtesy of the coffee can my dad still has from my grandmother, meatball formation, boiling, frying, etc. Ford's assembly line has nothing on us." —Varina W., Truro, Massachusetts
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- "Another is "Tradition": turkey, two kinds of stuffing, mashed potatoes, vats of gravy, green beans."
- "This year for Christmas we are doing "Italian Flag": pasta with a choice of pesto, Alfredo or marinara. And garlic bread, of course."
"The debate over menu goes on for weeks, with everyone making their case, trying to win support from others. We all end up over fed and happy, no matter the ultimate choice." | | | | |  | | Are you a fan of this email format? Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it. | | | | | | Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters.
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