I don't have a drop of English blood in me, but when I think about Christmas dinner, my imagination heads directly to England. For some reason, it's always Victorian England I picture. Christmas to me ...

When families and loved ones gather 'round the table on Christmas Day, dinner will take endless forms. But for anyone with English roots, or who has let Charles Dickens and Victorian traditions shape ...

Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed ...