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Happy and Healthy New Year
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Wishing you a long life, good luck and prosperity!
To make wishes come true, there are a few tricks, such as eating the right foods on New Year's Eve:

• Italy: Cotechino con lenticchie - eat as much as possible, because disc-shaped foods are a symbol of coins
• Germany: Good luck pigs are given at New Year's for good
• Spain: Eating the twelve lucky grapes at midnight, one at each tolling of the bell
• USA midwest: pork and sauerkraut - long strands of sauerkraut are a symbol for a long life
• Poland: Pickled herring - symbolizes money because of its silver color
• Japan: Osechi - is an entire category of foods traditionally associated with the Japanese New Year
• China: Fat choy, an edible algae, is commonly served because the name sounds like the word for prosperity in Chinese.
• Switzerland: Fondue Chinoise or Fondue Bourguignonne - almost half of the Swiss population eats this at the turn of the year.

Bon appétit & Happy New Year