The Festive Table: Recipes and Stories for Creating Your Own Holiday Traditions - Hardcover

Lundy, Ronni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865474923 ISBN 13: 9780865474925

Publisher: North Point Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this deliciously readable book, Ronni Lundy talks to people across the country who have come up with new ways to celebrate, whether they are continuing old traditions with a new twist, as in Chinese-inspired Rosh Hashanah, or making up traditions from scratch, as in a hotdish potluck to beat the winter doldrums. Lundy takes readers through the highlights of the year and an enormous range of cuisines, from a New Year’s tamale-making party in El Paso and a Chicago-style Polish Easter to a classic soul-food supper for Juneteenth and a Fourth of July Baltimore-style crab feast. Her mouth-watering recipes include smoked turkey empanadas with cilantro-coconut chutney, green tomato-corn soup, and peppermint ice cream.

Full of enthusiastic cooks and eaters, food lore, and holiday stories, The Festive Table provides inspiration for renewing celebrations in and out of the kitchen.

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Review

The meaning of family and holiday tradition has shifted over time until many of us are no longer sure what it is. We know simply that we want and need both. To help us recreate holiday rituals with personal resonance, Ronni Lundy, in The Festive Table, summarizes the essential, primal energy underlying 11 major holidays from Thanksgiving and Passover to Kwanzaa and Easter, plus lesser occasions. Sharing her own history plus traditions gleaned from interviewing other families, she presents a world of ways to celebrate holidays. Food as a festive meal plays a key role in all of them, as much a part of the spiritual experience as it is sustenance. As details of each family's traditions accumulate, remarkable similarities within our varied religious, cultural and individual traditions emerge, along with quirky, culinary uniqueness. To someone, somewhere, it's just not New Year's Eve or Rosh Hashonnah or the annual pig roast without tamales, won tons perfumed with tangerine zest, pickled ginger mayonnaise or some other dish unimaginable to anyone outside that tradition.

About the Author

Richard Manning is the author of Last Stand, A Good House, Grassland, and One Round River. He lives in Montana.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0865474923
• ISBN 13: 9780865474925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356