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Il Cenone: A Calabrian Christmas Eve Feast
Il cenone is the highlight of Christmastime at my house just as it is in Calabria.
A Calabrian Christmas Eve dinner usually includes thirteen dishes, and is always centered around seafood. The fish is mandatory because the Roman Catholic Church made the day before Christmas (la vigiliŠ°) a day of fasting and abstinence from meat, and some authors speculate that the thirteen dishes represented food for Jesus and his twelve disciples. Read More…
Rosetta Costantino teaches classes on the cooking of her native Calabria, Italy, and other Southern Italian regions. She has authored My Calabria (nominated for an IACP award) and Southern Italian Desserts (to be published Oct. 2013). more
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