Comenius 2011-2013, project: An extra place at table or know each other through food, Spanish "Special food for special occasions" by: CEIP Tierra de Campos - Spain. The fourth meeting in Turkey - Oct 2013.

1. Food for special days
Banned food

2. 1. Christmas celebrations
2. Carnival
3. All saint`s day ( 1 of november)
4. Easter week
5. Birthdays
6. Weddings
7. Baptisms
8. Communions
9. How we celebrate the birthdays in the school

3. Christmas eve
Christmas day
New year day
Twelfth night

4.  The typical courses of this special dinner are
shellfish, fish ( sea bream, gilt head bream,
see bass, hake), lamb, turkey, ham
 To drink it is drunk wine, cider and cava
(spanish sparkling wine similar to french
champagne)
 After dinner it is eaten the typical christmas
sweets ( nougat candy, marzipan,
polvoron…)

5. Baked sea bream
Roasted lamb

6. Ham
Turkey
Shellfish

7.  In the Christmas holidays is very usually to have drinks
for toasting with the friends and family
 The most common drink is the Cava, which is a
sparkling wine
 In Spain the Cava has certificate of origin from the
Autonomous community of Cataluña
cava

8.  In the Christmas holidays are very typical sweets made with
almonds
 The most important sweets in Christmas are: the nougat
candy, the marzipan and polvorones
Polvorones
Nougat Candy
Marzipan

9. The Christmas day is celebrated with a
food similar to the Christmas eve

10.  The last day of the year is celebrated the New year day.
 The dinner is usually fish, shellfish, lamb and christmas sweets.
 The new year day it is taken liquors and cava for celebrating the
new year
 After dinner the 31 of december, according to the tradition,
twelve grapes eaten at midnight on New year`s Eve in Puerta del
Sol ( Madrid) or watching T.V
 After people wish each other happy New year with cava
12 UVASCAVA

11.  The first day of the year is holiday is Spain and is
celebrated eating with the family.
 The food for this day is usually fish, lamb,piglet,
ham, etc.

12.  It is the night from the 5 to the 6 of January, kids
 Get gifts from the three wise men. It is special night, above
all for the kids
 The 6 of January it is eaten the ring- shaped cake, typical
sweet for this day.
 It is a scone with the form of ring and decorated with small
pieces of sugar coated fruit and sugar. Between the dough it
is hidden a small surprise.

13.  The typical course of Carnival is the
Horejuelas. It is sweet prepared with eggs,
flavour, oil and sugar

14.  The sweet fritter are the typical dessert of
the All Saint`s day

15.  The cod is the main course of the Easter week in Spain
 In the area of pastry- making is very popuar in all the
territory in Easter week the pieces of French toast. They are
made with slices of bread and are fried after soaking them
in milk for being served hotter

16.  In Spain is tradition that the person who is his
birthday invites his friends to take something
(lunch, dinner,snack..)
 It is always present in the birthdays the bithday
cake

17.  In the weddings are served a great variety of courses ( 4
or 5), among them are shellfish, meat, fish and the
dessert

18.  In Spain the Baptisms are celebrated with a lunch
together with all the family.
 It is usually eaten starters, main courses that consist of
meat, fish and dessert.

19.  The Communions are also celebrated eating
together with the family
 The same as the baptisms it is usually eaten startes
and a main course that consist of meat or fish and
also cake

20. How we celebrate
the birthdays in
the school

21.  My name is
Samuel and I
am 3 years old

25.  In Spain the Catholics has the habit of not eating meat
the Good Friday, in memory of the day that Jesus
Christ died in the Holy Cross
 During a lot of centuries the Catholics abstained from
eating meat all the Fridays in the Lent. But now this
has changed.

26. The end