{"id":409,"date":"2017-11-27T00:42:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickzullo.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2023-12-18T01:12:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T00:12:43","slug":"christmas-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/christmas-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Well, it\u2019s that time of year again, and I figured some seasonally relevant information would be appropriate, reexamining a few Italian and Italian-American holiday traditions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My team of crack researchers has been on the case for weeks now, working to come up with the very best content for this particular post. (OK, the truth is that I don\u2019t really have a \u201ccrack\u201d team. Or any team at all, for that matter. It\u2019s just me, Google, and a bottle of grappa. You\u2019ll have to forgive me if I wander off topic now and then.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n UPDATE: I recently recorded a podcast episode about Italian Christmas traditions on my Eat Like an Italian website. <\/p>\nPandoro, Panettone, and Other Italian Christmas Traditions<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n One thing you notice in Italy is that the holiday season arrives later and with much less intensity than it does in the US<\/strong>. While not completely immune to commercialism, Italians are less enslaved by it than we Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than commencing with the onslaught of annoying Christmas carols the day after Halloween, Italians ease into the season<\/strong> on December 8 with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Indeed, it\u2019s worth mentioning that Christmas in Italy still very much revolves around religious traditions rather than unbridled consumerism, talking snowmen, mutant reindeer, and a creepy little elf on every shelf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n