Christmas carp tradition in prague

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You are what you eat. Sometimes what we eat soon reflects on our bodies, either the outer appearance or our general state of health and well-being. Healthy food recipes are becoming popular now that more and more people are starting to opt to remove what’s bad for them and replacing with what is good. Fish, in general, is a healthy food. With so many fishes in the sea and fish recipes and cooking videos that you can find online, there’s no way you’ll run out of them. It’s good to know that up until now, fish is an important part of the traditions that we continue to live out throught many generations in the family, in the neightborhood or even in the country. Say for example, eating Carp for Christmas in the Czech Republic.


A few days before Christmas, carp become available in Prague so that families can prepare the traditional dish of carp for the Christmas meal. These carp, sold from barrels, will be purchased live. Some families keep carp in the bathtub until they are ready to kill and prepare the fish.

You will more than likely find fried carp as well as cold potato salad which is quite a speciality unique to the Czechs, you won't be finding it done like this in any other country.


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