The Christmas holidays can sometimes feel a little unhealthy but the ingredients that makeup a Christmas pudding are pretty nutritious.
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For so many people, Christmas movies are a link with a happy and safe childhood home.
Modern viewers: Scrooge doesn’t discuss what he’s learned or ask for redemption. He swiftly negates the life he would have led, had it not been for the ghostly interventions.
Holiday movies offer us a glimpse into how the world is could be, often in sharp contrast to our lives as they are. In that way, the annual act of viewing them is like a religious ritual.
If it hadn’t been for A Christmas Carol, the menu may well have centred on goose (or a boar’s head).
The Victorian idea of Christmas pre-dates Dickens. What the writer did was bring an essentially rural celebration into an urban setting.
From outright celebration, through charity to explicit political salvos – is there such a thing as the ‘ultimate’ Christmas pop song?
The artist who illustrated A Christmas Carol was one of the best-known satirists of his time.
When writing A Christmas Carol, did Charles Dickens get his inspiration for Scrooge, Marley’s ghost and Tiny Tim from the Bible?
Christmas foods are evolving. Purists may sniff but what are traditional foods other than past trends that have stuck?
Most modern Christmas films angle for comedy with a touch of schmaltz, but literary Christmases frequently tap into the anxiety and sadness that can accompany the “happiest time of year”.
In much of the English-speaking world Christmas dinner involves the consumption of turkey – but that was not always the case. The origins of this ritual can be traced back to the generous act of one Ebenezer…
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