“At Christmas, food is a must”

After these months living in Barcelona, ​​you will have noticed that here, we like to eat, that any excuse is good to organize a meal, or dinner, we are sure that you have already organized more than one in your student residence in Barcelona. Well, at Christmas, this pleasure for food increases even more; The gastronomy is, without a doubt, the absolute protagonist in these dates, and all the families gather around the table to spend those days, which, some like so much, and others, however, prefer to pass by long .

To familiarize yourself with what you will find these days in any home in Barcelona, ​​if you decide to spend the holidays here, we will tell you the typical dishes, customs and gastronomic traditions that we follow at the time of celebrating Christmas, something different to the rest of the country.

It is important to know that in Catalonia, a great Christmas Eve dinner is not celebrated, the great celebration takes place on Christmas Day and St. Stephen's Day on December 26th, which is also festive here. These two days are reserved for the family and since the morning, the cooks of the house are preparing the “escudella”, the “carn d'olla” and the soup of galets, or the stuffed chicken, baked turkey, orange duck, roasted lamb or baked fish, depending on the menu that has been decided, in advance, for this year.

As our fame of eaters precedes us, we often make too much food, no one can be left hungry! But we also have a reputation for making the most of the food and not throwing anything, so the leftovers of the great Christmas meal in all catalan homes, are used to made the typical cannelloni of San Esteban, stuffed with leftover meat from the “escudella” or stuffed chicken or turkey.

A week later, the celebration of New Year's Eve and New Year, no longer have this traditional and familiar tinge to become a celebration with friends, leaving aside traditional dishes, and giving way to a more modern and innovative cuisine.

In any of the two celebrations, the nougats and the “polvorones” present on a tray from Christmas Eve to Reyes Day, cannot be missed at the table. And of course, the “cava” of the earth to spend so much food.

Finally, on the day of the Three Kings, after seeing the cavalcade of the neighborhood of your student