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Christmas as a holiday has many sides to it. For some, it is a holy day to celebrate the birth of Jesus. For others, it is a highly capitilistc holiday still celebrated, because of family traditions. Both of these groups of people celebrate Christmas similarly: exchanging gifts, spending time with their loved ones, and eating meals that they consider special. Ritualistic meals and feasts have been a part of how we celebrate great things. Though some argue, that it is more, that humans wanted to empty their storages (F. Parasecoli, 2005). Societies throughout time had different meals and desserts they considered to be traditionally a Christmas food. Some meals that were reserved for Christmas evening only in one place were loved in the everyday cuisine in the other.  I will be making two traditional desserts: lærdalskling lefse, a Norwegian crêpes-like dessert, and a Hungarian cake named after a famous figure during the revolutions in the 18th century in Hungary, rákóczitúrós. ...

Sausages, like many preserved goods, are much easier to make than one would expect. This process took about 1.5 hours to make including preparation and cleaning. However, it is important to keep in mind that making sausages alone would be more challenging than with others. These sausages were made with the helping hands of Ririko, Rita, and me.   Archeological findings show that next to fish, beef was most used in Scandinavian cuisine, followed by mutton and pork (Serra, D., Tunberg, H., 2013). Nevertheless, the slower decomposition of cattle bones compared to those of other animals leads to their prevalence in archeological remains and possibly skewed numbers (Serra, D., Tunberg, H., 2013). Having said that, when looking for which meat to use from the store we settled on pork, as it is the cheapest one that we could afford as students. I personally believe that could also be considered as something connected to the past, since looking back on history, fish was most widely availab...