{"id":2741,"date":"2020-12-09T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:17:44","slug":"food-club-december-8-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Food Club: December 8-12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas_begins_horizontal_480x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2742\" width=\"623\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas_begins_horizontal_480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Christmas_begins_horizontal_480x480-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask any Italian when they usually open their gifts and you can probably tell where they are from.&nbsp; Italians celebrate lots of great unique Christmas traditions.&nbsp; Customs vary from city to city, from exactly what dishes are served to when to open presents.&nbsp; It is a great time to be a kid in Italy!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 13<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;marks the \u201cFesta di Santa Lucia\u201d \u2013 St. Lucy\u2019s Day.&nbsp; Historically, it was to her (and not Santa) that children wrote letters requesting gifts and sweets which she delivered with the help of her donkey on the eve of her feast day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week we feature a typical menu from Sicily, Santa Lucia\u2019s birthplace.&nbsp; An \u201c<em>omaggio\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;to this colorful and beloved Saint kicks off the Christmas season in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iricchifoodclub.com\/blogs\/news\/week-thirty-eight-menu-december-8-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE MENU<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any Italian when they usually open their gifts and you can probably tell where they are from.&nbsp; Italians celebrate lots of great unique Christmas &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specials","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}