Many individuals go out to eat for business, or meet family, friends and attend community events. While food is comfort, it also sustains us. Food elicits memories of family and holiday gatherings. Families have certain traditions and cultural differences with food.
Many individuals go out to eat for business, or meet family, friends and attend community events. While food is comfort, it also sustains us. Food elicits memories of family and holiday gatherings. Families have certain traditions and cultural differences with food.
My parents both came from produce families. My mother’s father had a grocery store and liquor business, with some of his siblings, in New Jersey. My father’s father, who lived on the Jersey Shore, had a truck selling produce.
I heard many stories about each family and their business, and the challenges they faced. At my grandfather’s store, produce that was overly ripe and did not sell – sometimes brown – was never thrown out. It was given to my grandmother, who stewed fruit and other flavorful concoctions. Nothing was to go to waste.