What do most of us dream about on the eve of the New Year? Of course, about a fairy-tale miracle and about. a real festive feast. But is it worth it to desire the unattainable? With a lovingly set table with a variety of delicious dishes in the circle of relatives and friends - this is already quite enough to meet the New Year in a beautiful mood. Preparations for the celebration of the New Year in each family begins long before the napupleniya themselves holidays. We decorate an apartment, decorate a Christmas tree, prepare a festive table. And do you know that despite the worldwide spread of some products, the traditions and customs of each country, each people, leave their imprint on the menu.

For example, Japanese housewives cook food from foods that they believe to bring happiness: from sea kale (joy), from chestnuts (success in business), from peas and beans (health), from boiled fish (vivacity and calmness ) and t.

At the festive tables of Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, you almost do not meet dishes from birds - it is believed that happiness can fly away this evening.

At midnight, every Cuban, Spaniard, a Portuguese must eat 12 grapes - 12 cherished desires for every month, because grapes, vine represent an abundant and happy family hearth.

Nuts, lentils and the same grapes - a symbol of health, well-being and longevity of Italians.

Almost every New Year's table in Russia is decorated with pies, soup, fish dishes.

And in Slovakia and the Czech Republic on the festive table must be stewed cabbage with sausages, carp, mushroom soup, poppy and honey pastry with milk.

New Year's holidays in France can be called "symphony in white". On the table are white candlesticks with white candles, fresh fruit, covered with white icing, for dessert - white cake and mogol.

There are different traditional dishes in Italy. In Bologna, for example, this is a meat pie, sprinkled with sour cream, the so-called tortelini.

In Poland, thirteen kinds of dishes are served to the festive table, necessarily covered with snow-white skate. New Year's dinner begins with fish soup or mushroom soup, then follows: cabbage with mushrooms, pies with cabbage, carp with sweet sauce, and t. , and ends with traditional biscuits with poppy seeds, compote and fresh fruit.

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