# Blended Holidays: When Jewish and Christian Traditions Come Together Through Food and Family.

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Podcast: [Family Tree Food Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/family-tree-food-stories-7049295)
Published: 2025-12-11T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://family-tree-food-stories.captivate.fm/episode/hanukkah-christmas-families
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## Resource

Bringing the holidays together: stories, shared recipes, and easy ideas for mixing Hanukkah, Christmas, and even Scandinavian Yuletide flavors at your family table. What happens when Jewish and Christian traditions come together in one kitchen? In this episode of Family Tree Food & Stories , Nancy May talks with Magdalena Dryberg , a Swedish-born Jewish mom who blends Hanukkah, Christmas, and Scandinavian winter traditions into one fun and meaningful holiday season. Magdalena shares easy ideas for blending faith, food, and family memories, and how anyone can create celebrations that feel special for everyone at the table. You’ll hear about tasty holiday foods like latkes, jelly-filled sufganiyot, Swedish ginger snaps, blue cheese, cured salmon, and warm mulled wine (glögg) —and learn how her family uses these dishes to celebrate the light of the season across different cultures and countries. Through simple stories, family recipes, and a lot of laughter, this episode shows that it doesn’t matter if you’re lighting a menorah or decorating a tree . What matters most is the stories you share, the food you enjoy, and the people you love . 🔑 Key Takeaways: 1. How Your Blended Family Can Create Powerful New Holiday Traditions Hanukkah, Christmas, and Scandinavian Yule can coexist beautifully. Magdalena shows how families can merge Jewish rituals , Christian symbolism , and Nordic winter customs into a meaningful, modern, multicultural celebration. 2. Food Preserves Culture—and Even Helps It Evolve Traditional foods— latkes, jelly donuts (sufganiyot), Swedish ginger snaps, gravlax, Jansson’s Temptation, glögg —carry the history of each culture. Cooking them keeps heritage alive even as new family traditions grow. 3. How Your Kitchen Can Hold Generational Memories From Swe…

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