Tiphaine For Christmas in Brittany, it has to be seafood. Eating seafood for Christmas might sound odd to most British people, but where I grew up, by the sea in south Brittany, it’s an established tradition. Every December, my first thought is about what will appear on Christmas Eve’s dinner table. I know for sure that we’ll start with (the most delicious) smoked salmon on toast that my grandfather catches earlier in the year in a nearby river, alongside freshly bought langoustines, prawns and oysters from the local market in Auray. More than just seafood, Christmas is also about the greatest conversations of all, listening to my grandfather's fishing stories as well as his rants about the prohibitive cost of seafood at the market (while hoping we’ll never have to buy it ourselves). With the talks over and the seafood eaten, we’re then ready to continue our family dinner already thinking of next year’s seafood feast.