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2,291 traditions so far, best known first. 12,316 more are on the list to be written. Filter by region, kind and meal.

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🇧🇧 Oistins, BarbadosOistins Fish Festival An annual Easter celebration in Oistins, Barbados, honoring the local fishing community with food and folk games.Festival · Dinner

🇺🇸 Manhattan, United StatesJews and Thanksgiving An American national holiday kept by most US Jews, and debated by their rabbisFestival · Dinner

🇮🇸 IcelandChristmas in IcelandJól A winter festival of mountain folklore, family feasts and thirteen mischievous visitorsFestival · Dinner

🇮🇶 IraqShabbat mealsסעודות שבת Three ritual meals eaten across the Jewish Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday nightTable custom · Dinner 🇸🇾 Syria and 1 moreThree Sundays of Commemoration A Maronite Christian observance held on the three Sundays before Lent to remember the departed.Spiritual · Dinner

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Jews and Thanksgiving: Executive Committee of Congregation Shearith Israel., Public domain, source
Christmas in Iceland: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, source
Shabbat meals: Yoninah, Public domain, source

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