Christmas is a popular holiday in Greece. Christmas traditions are similar to those in other countries and include Christmas trees, Christmas fairs, carols and decorations.

Greece also has a number of unique Christmas traditions influenced by the Greek Orthodox Church and other Greek customs. These include decorating Christmas boats and fending off strange goblin creatures.

Food plays a big part in the Greek Christmas with Greek cookies, traditional Greek pies and pastries and typically Greek ingredients used in the Greek Christmas dinner.

Try some Greek Christmas food with the recipes in this book.