Holidays

A salad with berries in patriotic colors for the Fourth of July holiday, courtesy of PBS Food. 

The National Memorial Day Concert is here, honoring our military with music, stories of veterans, and more. See the celebrities performing here. 

Photographer Kathleen Hinkel visited Delightful Pastries on Lawrence Avenue in Jefferson Park to get a behind-the-scenes look at the colorful preparation that goes into creating thousands of pączki in the days leading up to Lent. 

New Orleans' popular Carnival dessert king cake descends from sweet European treats associated with Epiphany, on January 6. And it has a cousin in the Mexican rosca de reyes. 

Uzvar is a cider of dried fruits and nuts typically served around the holidays in Ukraine. Chef Johnny Clark, who recently opened a Ukrainian restaurant and named it after his grandma, Anelya, shared a recipe for the warming drink.

We've got plenty of holiday specials from food shows, as well as some shows that just have great recipes for the holidays, for you to stream this holiday season.

In Puerto Rico, budín de pan or bread pudding is typically served during Nochebuena or Christmas Eve. This recipe from PBS KIDS' Jessica Martinez is adapted from her grandmother, who took out the traditional raisins in favor of making the budín like a pineapple upside-down cake.

Fruitcake may be a polarizing holiday dish, but if you make it fresh at home with your children, it can become a memorable new tradition – and it's easily customizable in terms of what fruit and nuts you include in it.

Cozy up with family and friends and enjoy our line-up of holiday programming as the nights get shorter and the holidays approach.

Thanksgiving is Wes Martin's favorite holiday, and he has some useful tips for harried home cooks. He also talks about the new cookbook Milk Street Simple.

Lighten up! The holidays are almost here. Many of the Chicago area’s holiday light festivals kick off in mid-November and run through early January.

Onam is a harvest festival traditionally celebrated with a vegetarian feast known as sadya in the south Indian state of Kerala. Avondale's Thattu serves Keralite food, and hosts a sadya. “People are not aware of the diversity of Indian cuisine,” says the owner.