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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide to get a frozen one from Bejams on the 23rd and leave it to defrost in the downstairs toilet for not quite 48 hours." From perennially dry turkeys to Christmas pudding fires, from the round robin code...
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Describes all the little things that make the holidays great, from successfully regifting a present to someone who wants it to knowing that Kwanzaa is worth more Scrabble points than Hanukkah or Christmas.
5) The atlas of Christmas: the merriest, tastiest, quirkiest holiday traditions from around the world
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Do you know that in Guatemala there's a "Burn the Devil" tradition to kick off the Christmas season, where revelers gather to set fire to devil-piñatas? In Sweden, a popular figure in Christmas traditions is the Yule Goat, a rowdy, menacing character who demands gifts. And in Japan, a big bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken has become the classic Christmas Day feast. These and many other global Christmas traditions are featured here in this delightful...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In his Preface to "A Christmas Carol", Charles Dickens wrote that he tried "to raise the Ghost of an Idea" with readers and trusted that it would "haunt their house pleasantly". In December 1997, 154 Christmases later, the "New York Times Magazine" asked its own Edward Gorey to refurbish this enduring morality tale. The result is this "dispirited and distasteful diversion for Christmas".
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