These (mostly) traditional Polish Christmas cookies are anything but basic! I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, where the Polish American population is so high that some claim there are more Polish ...

On Dec. 24, the dining table is laden in Polish households, but one chair is empty. Wigilia, the centuries-old Christmas Eve vigil marked in Poland and by Christians of Polish descent everywhere, is a ...

The Polish traditions in my family come from a simpler time. Back in the 1960s, when the post office was still profitable and phone calls to people more than 25 miles away cost at least a dollar a ...

MILTON – It was mid-November and Michele Alexander was rolling out dough for her final batch of Christmas pierogi. Every year, Alexander uses a family recipe to make between 200 and 300 of the classic ...

Attending Midnight Mass, making gingerbread houses and using an advent calendar are some of the most popular Christmas traditions in the U.S. In the High Desert, several holiday lovers shared their ...

As we gear up for Christmas, a mere six days away, holiday food traditions take hold. It’s a time when we dig out the once-a-year recipes — many handwritten — to make and savor for a tight hold onto ...

Holiday menus are filled with tradition and symbolism. This is the season when grocery lists for Christmas and Hanukkah require special ingredients. Our family has Polish recipe favorites. I recently ...

Something almost every Christmas-celebrating family has in common is that cookies are a holiday tradition. But what varies from family to family is what type of cookies they make (and leave out on ...

The dining table is so much more than a surface dressed in eclectic decor, vibrant runners, or floral arrangements; it is a place that - through the communal experience of sharing a meal - opens the ...