At Christmas, Ukrainians prepare a traditional twelve-course meal. A
family's youngest child watches through the window for the evening star to
appear, a signal that the feast can begin.
At lavish Christmas feasts in the Middle Ages, swans and peacocks were
sometimes served "endored." This meant the flesh was painted with saffron
dissolved in melted butter. In addition to their painted flesh, endored
birds were served wrapped in their own skin and feathers, which had been
removed and set aside prior to roasting.
