Goose was so important in the Victorian-era people would save - and save - for the big day, often joining the equivalent of modern-day Christmas club accounts to afford a plump, juicy bird. And ...

Lindsay Middleton has previously received research funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC UKRI). A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was published in 1843 – the same year as the ...

Goose was so important in the Victorian-era that people would save — and save — for the big day, often joining the equivalent of modern-day Christmas club accounts to afford a plump, juicy bird. And ...

Goose was so important in the Victorian-era people would save -- and save -- for the big day, often joining the equivalent of modern-day Christmas club accounts to afford a plump, juicy bird. And ...

In the past, some very strange things were eaten around Christmas. At lavish Christmas feasts in the Middle Ages, swans and peacocks were sometimes served "adorned." The flesh was painted with saffron ...

A couple weeks ago, I went to an event called the Fruitcake Redemption. Celebrating its third year at the New York City cooking-themed bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters, it beckoned home bakers to ...

There never was such a goose. This line, found in the third chapter of “A Christmas Carol,” greatly contributed to my childhood understanding of a traditional Christmas dinner. Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer ...