"Christmas Eve, or La Vigilia, was always a time of restraint ... Perhaps the most unusual and unexpected Advent and Christmas food tradition is the Japanese custom of eating KFC during the ...

I’ve mainlined carols in minor keys and sent out cards until the hideous cost of stamps ran me dry – but I’m more of an Advent person, and for me, that culminates in Christmas Eve ...

A Charlie Brown Christmas took from a number of Peanuts strips, but this 1961 storyline was the biggest inspiration ...