In rural Indiana when someone died, neighbors and relatives brought formal table settings including their best silver and and lots of food.
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In rural Indiana when someone died, neighbors and relatives brought formal table settings including their best silver and and lots of food.
This is a WPA story from Jackson Mississippi in which the writer describes African-Americans in that region as a group who prepares to depart this earth and style including serving an abundance of food to those who come to celebrate their life.
For her “it wouldn’t seem like living without sweetcorn and green beans and tomatoes and things like that. Somehow vegetables don’t ever taste the same when you buy them out of the store” she said. “I’ll raise me some cucumbers for pickles, too.
Aunt Mary remembered out loud the years it took for her to master the sauerkraut that her husband loved, as younger women who coveted the recipe lingered on her every word.
In New Amsterdam, New York City, funerals had been the occasion for heavy drinking. Among the Pennsylvania Dutch the tradition called for heavy eating. . . .
