From the King's Cakes of New Orleans to the Roscon de Reyes of Spain, food-centric holiday revelries don't stop at the flip of a calendar page. There's still New Year's, Twelfth Night and Mardi Gras to come, with all the attendant culinary traditions.
British food writer Annie Bell spends the holidays in Normandy, where her family has a 17th century farmhouse. It's a perfect location, she says, for festivities that never seem to stop.
"In France, New Year is a bigger celebration than Christmas," she says via e-mail. "In fact, many families will celebrate with two turkeys, one on each occasion. Our neighbors, for instance, an elderly couple with four children, are never less than 30 for New Year's Day lunch. And then Epiphany is even more significant, so there is a gradual crescendo in tempo over the 12 days."
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