Jan 6, 2021
Man setting up a Christmas tree in the living room with son and dog sitting on a couch
We ve all been going through a rough patch, go ahead, keep your Christmas tree up through January. Here s something to try when you take that fir down- cook with it!
A new book called
How to Eat Your Christmas Tree is currently going viral for listing several recipes that involve reusing/recycling your old Christmas tree for drinks and foods.
Most of the recipes in the book use the needles from the tree like an herb and apparently different types of Christmas trees have different flavors like more of a vanilla flavor or more zest.
Jan 6, 2021
Man setting up a Christmas tree in the living room with son and dog sitting on a couch
We ve all been going through a rough patch, go ahead, keep your Christmas tree up through January. Here s something to try when you take that fir down- cook with it!
A new book called
How to Eat Your Christmas Tree is currently going viral for listing several recipes that involve reusing/recycling your old Christmas tree for drinks and foods.
Most of the recipes in the book use the needles from the tree like an herb and apparently different types of Christmas trees have different flavors like more of a vanilla flavor or more zest.
She turned it into a book,
How to Eat Your Christmas Tree. And her idea is that it s not that weird. Some people enjoy Christmas tree cocktails. Some people like to forage and most people can get behind saving the planet. What I aimed for this book to do, really, was to get people thinking about the odd ways that they can be more sustainable in their daily lives, Georgallis says. Eating Christmas trees isn t going to save any turtles or freeze any ice caps. But if we start to think about everything that we do as a whole, then that builds up, you know, and that helps, she says.
Dec. 27, 2020 2:48 pm ET
The Christmas celebration inevitably gives way to the post-Christmas cleanup, replete with such less-than-merry tasks as taking down the decorations, putting away the good china and, of course, getting rid of the tree.
Julia Georgallis, a 32-year-old, London-based industrial designer-turned-trained baker, is calling upon holiday revelers to consider an alternative at least when it comes to that last step. Her suggestion: using a Christmas tree, particularly its ever-fragrant needles, to make Christmas tree pickles. Or Christmas tree hot-smoked fish. Or perhaps best of all, Christmas tree ice cream.
“For some reason, when you mix Christmas trees with dairy, it’s kind of unbelievable,” says Ms. Georgallis, who has spent the last five years concocting various recipes from these trees and hosting sold-out culinary events with her resulting dishes. Her latest effort: a newly published cookbook called “How to Eat Your Christmas Tree.”