What symbol is drawn on the Christmas loaf of bread in Greece?
The Christopsomo (Christmas bread) is sometimes decorated with pieces of dough formed into representations of the family’s life (boats, farm animals, olive trees or what have you…). Often it remains undecorated. Easter bread, on the other hand, is symbolically decorated with red eggs, and New Year’s bread is decorated with the number of the new year spelled out in almonds and cloves.
