Special days and food
The new Tar Heel Tavern is up, and the theme this week is special days. How appropriate for this blog -- special days are nearly always associated with food.
Cakes have their own traditions at birthdays and weddings, whether it's blowing out the candles or deciding whether to smash the cake in your new spouse's face.
When you go to a funeral, you bring food for the family afterward. I googled "funeral food" and found a great poem about the subject.
Thanksgiving and Christmas and Passover and other holidays usually revolve around big meals. Every year, thousands of new (and old) cooks probably worry about not drying out the turkey or getting the traditions right for the Seder.
Children hunt Easter eggs and gorge themselves on candy at Halloween.
Your anniversary and New Year's is usually spent out at a nice dinner, followed by other activities if you're lucky.
When we celebrate, we typically do it with food. Perhaps it's linked to some primal urge inside of us -- or perhaps it's a cultural reason for why Americans are so overweight. Celebrations = food. It's something to chew on.
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Man. All I know is, that icing was hard to get out of my nose.
Posted on October 13, 2005 12:22 AM