Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:48:10 +0200https://english.radio.cz/old-fashioned-advent-not-your-grandmas-carp-and-potato-salad-8624749© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalFried carp and potato salad is today the 'bread and butter' of any traditional Czech Christmas meal. But this was not always so. Pious Czechs once used to fast at Christmas; they then took to cooking meatless dishes, such as sweet porridge with dried fruits. Slowly, fish - and finally, carp -- became the most common fasting meal. In this week's Panorama, however, we go along to a tasting of Advent and Christmas dishes that predate - by centuries - the carp and potato salad tradition. Some recipes date back to the Middle Ages and are long forgotten; others - like crispy frogs legs -- were all the rage among the chattering classes here just a century ago.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/vecere.jpg?timestamp=1591458269 https://english.radio.cz/old-fashioned-advent-not-your-grandmas-carp-and-potato-salad-8624749 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9