New Year!

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New Year!
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New Years dishes

• VasilopitaThe traditional New Years cake or
  Vasilopita is usually a common cake even though
  in some areas they make a meat pie! The most
  unusual about it is that we hide a coin inside
  it. At the turn of the year all family gathers
  and the father cuts the cut into even pieces and
  offers one to all family members. We also keep
  and extra piece for Jesus and for Santa. Whoever
  gets the coin is the lucky one for the whole
  year!

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• Shortbread Melomakarona

turkey
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CUSTOMS

• The most important customs are the following
• The distribution of gifts to children, which the
  housewives prepare at home. These are mainly
  desserts such as buns, etc. melomakarona
• Kalanda small children from all neighborhoods
  singing Christmas carols visit houses and shops
  and collect sweets and tips.

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Family dinner
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Carols

• The carols are a Greek custom that is maintained
  undiminished even today with the children
  wandering from house to house andaccompanying
  their singing with the triangle or even guitars,
  accordions, lyres or harmonicas.The children
  wander from house to house, knocking on doors and
  asking "Shall we sing? '. If the response from
  the landlord or housewife is positive, then they
  sing the carols for a few minutes ending with the
  wish may we meet next Year as well! "The
  housewives offer a small amount of money, and
  offer them melomakarona or buns.Carols are sung
  on Christmas Eve, New Year and Epiphany, and are
  different for each celebration.

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Pomegranate

• The ancient Greeks used to break a pomegranate at
  the threshold of their house for good luck,
  something we do even today. The breaking of
  pomegranate takes place basically in the New
  Year. In some areas of Greece, the pomegranate is
  broken right after the New Year, when everybody
  comes out of the house before the New Year comes,
  turning all the lights. Then they exchange
  greetings, and the landlord or another family
  member who is considered lucky, break a
  pomegranate on his doorstep and then they all
  come in

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