By Debbi Snook

While our Thanksgiving dinners are trussed up in American traditions, Christmas leaves a little wiggle room for overseas adventure. If you aren't already wedded to your usual ham, fish or another turkey, anything goes – as long as it sparkles.

Add an ethnic twist – let's say Italian – and you can plunge into the colorful, flavorful feasts of another culture. And so it went in a recent demonstration class given by Loretta Paganini, the Bologna-born founder of a Chesterland cooking school bearing her name, and, more recently, her professional academy, ICASI, one of only a handful of schools in Ohio offering professional certification.

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