The meals that mark time
Feasts, fasts and family rules — the food traditions people organise their year around.
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That glowing bowl with the pink swirl is not fantasy food. It is usually Tokyo-style shoyu ramen, and every topping on it has a name, a region, and a reason.
Clara Bennett · · 12 min read
The Feast of the Seven Fishes comes from a Catholic rule about meat, not from a rule about seven. Here is where the number came from, and what is actually on the table.
Clara Bennett · · 11 min read
The 1621 harvest meal probably featured venison and wild fowl, not a roast turkey. The bird got its seat at the table more than two centuries later.
Clara Bennett · · 10 min read
