Christmas dinner fruits, chocolate, raisins, and/or pine nuts, known as panettone, followed by "torrone" (enriched with cherries, chocolate, sweets and more), nougat and nuts. In Southern Italy instead of one cake they serve many kinds of marzipan, biscuits, zeppole, cannoli, candied fruits, and fresh fruits. In the last few decades, panettone has become popular as a Christmas sweet all over Italy. Pandoro is also a very popular cake at Christmas and New Year, accompanied by a good Champagne. One typical Dutch tradition is that of 'gourmet,' an evening-long event where small groups of people sit together around a gourmet-set and use their
Christmas in the Stars that this would be the first in a series of annual "Star Wars" Christmas albums. The majority of the album's original songs, both music and lyrics, were written by Maury Yeston, a Yale University music professor who went on to become a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical composer. One of his songs, "What Can You Get A Wookiee For Christmas (When He Already Owns A Comb)", with vocals by Yeston, went on to become a recurring top-40 X-mas hit. The album is notable for featuring the first professional recording of Jon Bon Jovi (credited as "John Bongiovi", his birth name), who