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Jonasz, ZSP Bierutów, Poland - Christmas Eve

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Jonasz, ZSP Bierutów, Poland - Christmas Eve

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In Poland traditionally there should be 12 dishes.
In my house we eat about 9. Such as :
- borsch with little dumplings
My favorite
- cabbage with peas
- carp
- dried fruit compote
- dumplings
- carp in jelly
There are also sweets: Kutia which consists of wheatberries, raisins, honey, poppy seeds, milk, and nuts.
For me it is too sweet. We also have various cakes. After dinner everyone unpacks gifts.

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Giorgia, Aurora and Mario - Vallone -ITALY - BIRTHDAYS

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Giorgia, Aurora and Mario - Vallone -ITALY - BIRTHDAYS

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We celebrate birthdays  with friends and  family, at home, in a garden or in a local venue. Sometimes we decorate the hall with balloons, festoons or garlands. Generally, typical party food includes French fries, sandwiches, pizzas, arancini (rice balls), calzone or panserotti of potato and to drink: water, fizzy drinks, fruit juice and sometimes beer and wine.  And  finally there is a cake, little biscuits or muffins and on special occasion champagne too. Most birthdays have music and some also have group dances. In Italy an 18th birthday is considered one of the most important because you are the right age to get a driving license and to vote; usually friends show videos of how the birthday person  spent their childhood years.

SALENTO PANZEROTTI  POTATOES  are tasty morsels that can be cooked very easily.
RECIPE:

The method is: boil the potatoes for about an hour and a half and then clean them and mash them with a potato masher. Mix the mashed potatoes with eggs, cheese, a little bread crumbs, a little salt and pepper and finally the chopped mint. Try to obtain a homogeneous mixture and then with dampened hands roll the mixture into the form of a stick and coat with breadcrumbs. Fry them in hot oil and you'll know if they are ready when they rise to the surface.

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Lisa,Barbara -VALLONE - ITALY - CHRISTMAS EVE - RECIPE

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Lisa,Barbara -VALLONE - ITALY - CHRISTMAS EVE - RECIPE

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Corsara pasta is a good alternative dish for the people who want to try something new, it’s composed of sea food and tomatoes. Heat some olive oil in a large pot, then add garlic, chopped onion and a pinch of salt. Then you have to add clams and cover the pot. After few a minutes check if all the clams are open and if any are closed you have to remove them. Then you can add the  “scampi” to the clams and put a little bit of whiskey and  let it evaporate, add pureed tomato pulp and let it cook for about an hour, when the sauce is ready turn off the heat and add the cream. Add some cooked pennette pasta and gently mix it with the sauce.

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Marta, Gloria VALLONE- ITALY - CHRISTMAS EVE

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Marta, Gloria VALLONE- ITALY - CHRISTMAS EVE

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On Christmas Eve we usually spend time with our relatives and eat traditional dishes. The menu is based around fish dishes like “Vermicelli with Baccalà”. In Italy we don’t eat meat on Christmas Eve because of catholic traditions. After the appetizers we eat pasta, fish, fruit and a typical desert like “Pandoro with a Tiramisù filling”. Then we wait for midnight playing traditionals game like: “mazzeto, sette e mezzo, poker”, and last but not least “tombola” which is like bingo where you have a card with some numbers and you get rewards (usually money) doing lines of numbers. When midnight arrives someone dressed up as Santa Claus gives presents to us, then we open the sparkling wine, we make a “brindisi” (toast) and drink it.

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Carlotta, Chiara -VALLONE - ITALY - EASTER - RECIPE

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Carlotta, Chiara -VALLONE - ITALY - EASTER - RECIPE

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Cuddhura
If you want to cook the Cuddhura you have to put 600g of flour in a large blow and mix it with 200g of butter and a baking powder; so add 200g of butter and greater lemon peel and 4 eggs and then knead. Modeled it directly on baking paper, and according to the subject of your choice: a heart, a basket, a bell, a doll or a cock. On it put the shell egg. Decorate it with sesame or colored sugar. Bake at 180°-200° for 35-40 minutes. When it's ready, cover it with colored icing, strew it with colored sugar and let it cool.

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In Italy Easter is a religious and public holiday and for this reason a lot of organizations and businesses are closed. Easter meals are vary, but include eggs, lamb and some sweets in almond past, with the appearance of a lamb, a fish or a dove. For the first course are very popular Lasagna, homemade pasta (such as orecchiette, maccheroncini) or ravioli or tortellini. For the main course, roasted or grilled meat is usually served. Dessert is an important part of Easter feast. Chocolate eggs are, of course, among the favorite. An important swear if South of Italy is Cuddhura. The Monday immediately after is also a national holiday, called Pasquetta (Little Easter). The usual customs on Little Monday is to go out, usually for a picnic or a little trip.

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Sofía and María - CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain -  WEDDINGS

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Sofía and María - CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain -  WEDDINGS

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We have created a presentation on how we celebrate weddings in Spain and also included a recipe.

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Celebrations and Food. A description about how we celebrate weddings in Spain in relation with food.

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Chiara, Martina, Vallone - Italy - WEDDINGS - RECIPE

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Chiara, Martina, Vallone - Italy - WEDDINGS - RECIPE

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"Maltagliati" with a mushrooms sauce
To make the pasta you need water and flour. Work the flour and the water to form a dough. Role out the dough and cut it into varoius shapes. Saute porcini mushrooms with oil, garlic, parsley and salt. Them take the flour, the milk, the butter and the salt and put them in a frying pan. Cook on a low flame for a couple of minutes. Next, blend the mushrooms and the sauce together. Now cook the pasta and strain it. Then add the porcini mushrooms sauce on top. Garnish with fresh parsley.

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Lucrezia , Giorgia, Dalila, Vallone - Italy - WEDDINGS

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Lucrezia , Giorgia, Dalila, Vallone - Italy - WEDDINGS

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WEDDINGS IN ITALY
In Italy people usually celebrate their wedding with good friends, parents and relatives ,but recently a lot of people have smaller celebrations with fewer relatives and friends. The spouses want to spend this important day with all the people they love. The celebration takes place in a big church where there is the exchange of wedding rings. After the ceremony the bride and groom go to a town or city near the seaside to take photos. Then they go on to a restaurant, where the guests have been waiting for them and applaude their entrance.
The wedding lunch includes 14 dishes:
During the first hour there is a “Welcome cocktail” followed by an aperitif buffet before the real meal.
The starter is normally cured meats, mushrooms, olives, mixed fried seafood and potatoes and cheese.
There are two first courses: particular pasta dishes (like “Maltagliati” and “Strozzapreti”) with shellfish and rice with porcini mushrooms. They are the most common ones.
The second courses are usually fine fish like clams, sea bream and mussels aux gratin and meat like roast pork or skewers. As side dishes you can find chips, salad and vegetables.
After there is seasonal fruit or fruit salad and the famous almond sweets for good luck and a  happy marriage. Finally,the spouses cut their wedding cake.

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Pamela,Luisa, Vallone, Italy - Carnival-RECIPE

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Pamela,Luisa, Vallone, Italy - Carnival-RECIPE

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During carnival we eat “Chiacchiere” that are fried sweets typical in Italy.  Recipe:

500 gr. of flour

2 eggs and a yolk

Oil

50 g of butter

2 tablespoons of sugar

Lemon peel
PREPARATION
Sift the flour and put it in a very large bowl: also, you can add a packet of yeast to get voluminous “Chiacchiere”.
So, add two whole eggs and a yolk and begin to mix: add the butter and mix again.
Pour the sugar and lemon’s grated peel into the bowl.
When you get a homogeneous mixture, you can stop. Make it a ball and envelop by pellicle. Put it in the fridge for 20 minutes.
After, take off the mixture and divide it in smaller pieces. You have to get 1 millimeter and half thin pastries and give a lengthened shape. Cut some rectangular shapes.
When you finish, put oil into a very large pot and warm it: when the oil temperature is 170 grades, put the rectangular shapes into the oil.
Let “Chiacchiere” fry for 4 minutes.
After, dry them and lay down over absorbing paper.
Strew them with sugar.

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Benedetta, Pamela, Vallone, Italy -Carnival

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Benedetta, Pamela, Vallone, Italy -Carnival

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Carnival is a festival that is celebrate in catholic countries. In Italy we have 7 important carnivals: in Viareggio, in Sciacca, in Acireale, in Ivrea, in Putignano, in Manfredonia. Carnival is also important in Italy because we celebrate it particularly  on Fat Thursday and on Fat Tuesday because they are the last Thursday and the last Tuesday before Lent. We celebrate it with our family or our friends.   On Carnival it’s typical to go and watch the parade, wearing costumes and go around the city with the parade.

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Lucía. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - NEW YEAR'S EVE - RECIPE

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Lucía. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - NEW YEAR'S EVE - RECIPE

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RECIPE .
COD IN TOMATO SAUCE
Ingredients:
-cod
-tomato
-flour
-eggs
Preparation:
firsty, take the cod and mix it with eggs and flour. next, fry the serving fish and add the tomato sauce.
Finally wait until the fish is ready and serve.

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Lucía. CIFP Manuel Antonio  - Spain - NEW YEAR'S EVE

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Lucía. CIFP Manuel Antonio  - Spain - NEW YEAR'S EVE

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NEW YEAR´S EVE
New Year´s Eve is a celebration in Spain.A lot of people celebrate in their houses until midnight . this celebration is special because the family gather toguether and celebrate the New Year eating grapes. People also go out and celebrate with friends.
In this celebration we usually eat seadfood as a main course and for dessert we usually have dred fruits, nuts and nougat.

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Luz. Deli and Fran - CIFP Manuel Antonio - CARNIVAL - RECIPE

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Luz. Deli and Fran - CIFP Manuel Antonio - CARNIVAL - RECIPE

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RECIPE:
One of the most typical recipes from Galicia at the carnival are the "ears" or carnival fritters.
It´s ingredients are:
-2 eggs
-50ml anise
-A little bit of salt
-100g of butter
-120g sugar
-Lemon zest
-200ml warm water
-Icing sugar for dusting
-Extra virgin olive oil

INSTRUCTIONS:
1º Grate some lemon.
2º In a large bowl, pour the warm water, a pinch of salt, butter, previously melted, lemon zest, sugar, anise and eggs. Beat until you get smooth cream and add the flour gradually mixing first with rods and then hands.
3º Continue kneading until you get a workable dough and let rest between 1 and 3 hours.
4º The next step is to strech the dough until it´s thin.
5º Cut the dough into the desired shapes
6º Put a frying pan with abundant oil and heat it over medium-low heat.
7º When the oil is ready for frying, fry the dough until golden brown.
8º Remove them from the pan and put them on papel to remove excess oil. Finally add the icing sugar and let cool over.
This is a very tasty dessert that everyone likes.

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Jonathan, Rosana, Aarón. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - EASTER - RECIPE

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Jonathan, Rosana, Aarón. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - EASTER - RECIPE

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LENT FRITTERS RECIPE:

-INGREDIENTS:
-A bit of salt              -1tbsp of yeast
- 75g of sugar           -100ml of milk     -1 lemon                   - 50g of butter
- Olive oil for fry       - 2 eggs
-300g of flour            - icing sugar
INSTRUCTIONS:
First, dissolve the yeast in warm milk in a bowl and stir with a wooden spoon. Beat the butter with sugar and eggs, until creamy. Add a pinch of slat and mix with the dissolved yeast.
Step two add the flour grandually and stir with a wooden spoon, until very thick. Then add lemon zest. Dump the dough on a flat work surface, adding the remaining flour, until it is soft.
To finish, take small portions of dough and shape then into balls; flatten slighty to form a central hollow making donuts (let stand 15 minutes to cool). Fry the balls and remove when they are golden brown. Drain on paper and sprinkle with icing sugar

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Deli,Fran y Luz. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - CARNIVAL

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Deli,Fran y Luz. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - CARNIVAL

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CARNIVAL:
Hello, let´s talk about a holiday celebrated wolrdwide: carnival is celebred before lent, on these days Christians eat meat for the last time before fasting for forty days during lent.Carnival is celebrated in different ways all around the world. I am going to talk about the carnival in Galicia.
The carnival in Spain is celebrated in all regions,but the most famous for their peculiar customs are: Canary carnival,the carnival of Cádiz and carnival in Laza and Verín. In Galicia carnival is celebrated on Saturday,Sunday and Tuesday and it finishes on Ash Wednesday.

During carnival,people disguise every day and they go out in the street to see the music bands.
In carnival all the family usually eat together on Tuesday.
we eat "cocido" which is boiled meat, cabbage and chikpear and we drink wine .
For dessert ,we have fritters called ears and drink oranje juice .
At night people disguise and they go to clubs to celebrate the carnival.

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Jonathan, Rosana, Aarón. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - EASTER.

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Jonathan, Rosana, Aarón. CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - EASTER.

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EASTER:
In Spain Easter is celebrated in every city and village. Religious procession are a very important tradition specially in the sowth. Brotherhoods are religious association in charge of "walking" the big size sculptures are carried by some people from a brotherhood while the rest of the members. Accompany then playing instruments while advancing. They dress in robes for the event. Ahead an behind the float walk the socalled "penitents" usually on bare feet. Malaga and Sevilla are two cities where this celebration is very important. At Easter many tourist come from all over the world. One of the best know proccesions takes plays on Palm Sunday. Families rest elegantly specially children carrying a traditional "palm" in their harts.This proccesion ends at noom and at that time the whole family eat together.
Easter in Spain is a 7-days celebration.There are different celebrations in diferent provinces, for example: Palm Sunday is a very important day. People weare new clothes and go to church carrying palms and the whowl family eat togheter. During Easter week the typical food is: garlic soup that tastes like meat and vegetables slew with salted cod. This fish is the protagonist. But specially many sweets are made on these days. Fritters or pan fruit are very popular. Another popular dessert is Easter bread Ring which godparents usually give to thei godchildren. Finally on Easter Sunday which is a very important date too, families eat together. We usually  have bake fish, mostly cod, but that doesn't prevent you from eating many other things

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Carla, Uxía y Andrea CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - CHRISTMAS EVE - RECIPE

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Carla, Uxía y Andrea CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - CHRISTMAS EVE - RECIPE

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BAKED CHICKEN:
The ingredients for this recipe are:
-1 chicken
-10 potatoes
-A lot of vegetables
-1 cup of oil
-Spices(salt, pepper and parsley)

INSTRUCTIONS:
First turn the oven to 180 degrees.
Then, put the leg quarters chicken in the oven. Together with the oil, pepper and parsley and add the vegetables. Add the diced potatoes, too.
Leave it in the oven until the chicken and the potatoes are golden brown.
Take them out from the oven. Finally let cold slightly and serve.

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Carla, Uxía y Andrea CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - CHRISTMAS EVE

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Carla, Uxía y Andrea CIFP Manuel Antonio - Spain - CHRISTMAS EVE

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Christmas Eve is celebrated on December 24th. It is a tradictional dinner with the whole family, it's a good day to meet.
On this day we usually eat seafood and sausages as starters, meat and fish as the main course and a lot of christmas desserts such as nougat marzipans and shortbre

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Martina,Alessia, Vallone -Italy - New Year's Eve

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Martina,Alessia, Vallone -Italy - New Year's Eve

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Recipe

Cotechino ( pork sausage) with lentils

Preparation

We buy a type of pork sausage that it's called “Cotechino”. We take a very large saucepan with hot water and put the cotechino in it with its small net on for an hour. After that we remove the pork sausage from the envelope and cut it into slices. We boil the lentils in a pot with the broth for 15 minutes. Then cut the onion, the celery and the carrots and fry them in a frying pan with the olive oil for another 15 minutes. After combine everything in one pot and leave for 15 minutes. Next put the cotechino and lentils together in a serving dish and we serve it.

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Benedetta, Virginia, Vallone, Italy - New Year's Eve

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Benedetta, Virginia, Vallone, Italy - New Year's Eve

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The traditions of New Year's Eve are linked to the end of the year and the start of the new one. All the traditions over many generations are connected to serenity, abundance and luck.

In Italy we usually stay with our family on the 31st of December for the “Cenone” ( a big dinner), waiting for midnight.

Each country has its own typical food, but fish, spumante ( sparkling wine), pandoro and panettone (Christmas cakes used even on New Year's Eve) are quite common throughout Italy.

During dinner if you eat lentils with your hands it means you will have money; sometimes we eat lentils with Cotechino (pork sausage). At midnight tradition says that you have to throw away old objects (like dishes or glasses) while you make a wish. This “brutal” ritual removes bad things that happened during the previous year.

Also setting off fireworks is thought to remove evil spirits.

It's usual to wear red underwear and to read your horoscope for the New Year on this day.

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We have a ceremony in church. A wedding reception usually takes place in a restaurant or a rented hall.
Guests eat the hot meal, usually in the form of soups (especially chicken soup is often served) and other dishes. Tables at Polish weddings are full of tasty dishes.
Great meat, a lot of different cakes, jelly, fish, ice cream, coffee and tea, and many others.

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Kasia, ZSP Bierutów, Poland - Harvest Festival

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Kasia, ZSP Bierutów, Poland - Harvest Festival

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Harvest Festival consists of handing the host a wreath of ears of cereal, which represents the yearly yield, combined with singing, treats and fun. Harvest festival is dominated by different types of meat, loaves and cakes.

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In my country we always celebrate birthday with a birthday cake. It's the main part of a party or family gathering. My favourite is a big chocolate birthday cake.

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Patricia - Food and Celebrations in Spain

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Patricia - Food and Celebrations in Spain

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In Spain food is very important and tables are places to gather and celebrate. Just have a look at a dessert plate we prepared at my place last Christmas with marsipan and other almond cakes.

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Spain, Italy and Poland share comments on celebrations and food

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Spain, Italy and Poland share comments on celebrations and food

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