New Year

Celebrate life, happiness, and the upcoming New Year by wishing your friends a successful new year. Start their good fortune with our top-of-the-line celebration gift baskets. Celebrating the New Year is not only a family tradition but also business etiquette. In this modern world business etiquette rules still apply at many companies. Handwritten cards with your Happy New Year wishes are genuine gestures.

In many countries, New Year starts on January 1st. Celebrations are often enjoyed with meals and snacks to bestow good luck for the coming year. In Spanish-speaking countries, people bolt down a dozen grapes-symbolizing their hopes for the months ahead-right before midnight. In many parts of the world, legumes are in traditional New Year’s dishes. Legumes are thought to resemble coins and herald future financial success.

Examples include lentils in Italy and black-eyed peas in the southern United States. Because pigs represent progress and prosperity in some cultures, pork appears on the New Year’s Eve table in Cuba, Austria, Hungary, Portugal and other countries. Ring-shaped cakes and pastries, a sign that the year has come full circle, round out the feast in the Netherlands, Mexico, Greece and elsewhere. In Sweden and Norway, meanwhile, rice pudding with an almond hidden inside is served on New Year’s Eve; it is said that whoever finds the nut can expect 12 months of good fortune.