Christmas has a habit of sneaking up on me. Despite preparing for this moment for five weeks, I still feel like it arrived fast. It’s the final chapter in my six-part series—Allie’s Christmas Pudding ...

The holiday season is coming up soon and as people all over the world start preparing their Christmas menu, it's interesting to note how many different traditional foods there are, depending on which ...

Welcome back to my Christmas Pudding Chronicles. This is a holiday series where I, an outsider to the British tradition of figgy pudding, muddle my way through making one. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy my ...

Christmas pudding is a traditional Christmas dessert made with a combination of dried fruits, nuts, eggs or molasses, spices, flour and butter. Steaming is generally the cooking method used to prepare ...

The Christmas pudding, a legacy of the British Empire, is enjoyed around the world -- including in former British colonies. esp_imaging/iStock via Getty Images Plus As an American living in Britain in ...

It took until last year for me to attempt to make my own Christmas pudding. To be honest, I was intimidated by the idea of complicated cooking and hours-long steaming ― but having adjusted this slow ...

There are certain foods that you look forward to but only come around once a year. For me, that’s my mom’s (and Martha ...

As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there ...