{"id":3339,"date":"2021-12-08T02:41:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2021-12-08T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:41:07","slug":"food-club-december-7-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=3339","title":{"rendered":"Food Club: December 7-12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0355\/0108\/0714\/files\/Christmas_season_begins_square_c42ec1f1-940e-4bc0-bea1-6065491a3177_540x.jpg?v=1638881404\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"606\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christmas Season Begins!<\/strong><\/p>\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 13th&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.\u00a0 An \u201c<em>omaggio\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to this colorful and beloved Saint kicks off the Christmas season in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iricchifoodclub.com\/blogs\/news\/week-ninety-menu-12-7-12-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE MENU<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Season Begins! Ask any Italian when they usually open their gifts and you can probably tell where they are from.&nbsp; Italians celebrate lots of &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-3339","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\/3339","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=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}