Eat a festive boar. During the Yuletide season, thousands of years ago, Germanic pagans would celebrate with sonargöltr — a sacrificed boar they would swear oaths upon and then eat. Update this ancient tradition for the modern day with this delicious roast boar recipe!
Read some chilling ghost stories. Celebrate the spookier side of the holiday season with these Victorian and Edwardian wintertime ghost stories. These top selections picked by the Los Angeles Public Library feature literary titans like Henry James and Edith Wharton.
Watch a peaceful Yule log. Grab some nog or hot cocoa, settle in your coziest chair, and unwind with the soothing crackle of a burning fire log. While nothing beats an actual fireplace, a digital log will do the trick, too. Check out this list of 9 of the best Yule log videos.
Listen to some warm jazz. Jazz is the perfect genre for a cozy winter night, eating boar, and watching the Yule log. For the new stuff, check out Best of Jazz’s 2023 year-end playlist. For the classics, we can’t get enough of ambient “oldies playing in another room” videos.—QH