Christmas dinner

We are celebrating Christmas Eve today! This is the day before the Nativity. According to the biblical prophecy, on Christmas Eve the labor pains of the Virgin Mary, which began on Ignazhden (20 December), ended. The holiday is dedicated to home and the family reunites for dinner to wait together for the birth of the Son of God. On Christmas Eve, the 40-day Christmas fasting ends.

The Athens municipal authority will be hosting a Christmas luncheon for some 1,200 of the Greek capital's homeless and poor on Wednesday.

The lunch, which will be held at the Rouf indoor municipal sports arena, will be opened at 1 p.m. by Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis, while there will also be music and gifts. 

Four months after Greece formally ended the eight years of harsh bailout programs overseen by the country's international creditors, cash-strapped Greeks are again preparing to celebrate Christmas on tight budgets.

This year's holiday meal tomorrow will remain frugal, consumers who flooded Athens's central meat market - the Varvakeios - told Xinhua.

The holy night of Christmas was celebrated across Turkey late on Dec. 24, gathering Christians in Turkey and people of all religions and cultures visiting from around the world.

A typical Christmas dinner will cost Greek households 1.29 percent less this year than it did in 2016, mainly due to pork and potatoes, a study published on Monday by the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship (ESEE) has found.

The United States today celebrates Thanksgiving. This is the oldest and most celebrated holiday, gathering family and friends together.

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in memory of the first settlers in Massachusetts in 1621. According to the legends, the winter was severe and the food did not reach.

Astir Palace is inviting guests for a festive Thanksgiving on November 26. Families are invited to come for lunch or dinner and enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving menu that includes sweet pumpkin soup, green salad, roasted Turkey and mashed potatoes. Dessert is a sweet tart with caramelized apples and almond crumble with cinnamon sauce scented with Calvados.