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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Community Christmas Memories by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget



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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