Community Christmas Memories by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
Before
I became a restaurant reviewer for the Monterey
County (CA) Weekly (Circulation:
200,000), I wrote a column entitled “Side Dish” with anecdotes related
to food.
The
book Tender at the Bone by Ruth
Reichl was popular at the time, and my
column gave memoirs of Paris (France), Osaka (Japan), China (1979 Study Tour as
a teen), and ethnic restaurants in Detroit, Chicago, and Monterey County to
encourage local writers to do the same as Reichl in our multicultural
community.
I
still wish people in our community would get a spiral notebook and a
package of pens and write about how they celebrated holidays at various stages
of their life: child, teen, 20 – 30 year old, married couple or not, and
retiree. This kind of memoir does serve
a community greatly in helping make sure that people obtain items to celebrate in the way that they feel is magical and successful.
The
following article, Well Seasoned Greetings, is one I wrote about Christmas, because I still love
Christmas carols, hot chocolate, and churros that go by any ethnic name.
To
be continued – cleaning house for Christmas and drinking some coffee.
Happy
Holidays – will post tomorrow.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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