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    FOOD TRADITIONS: SHARING A LOVE OF FOOD

    Feb 22, 2019 4 minutes
    Words by Emily Stokes

    Food expresses our cultural identity and helps define us. In some cultures eating is always a social activity. Sit down at an Arab or Chinese dining table and you will not eat from a single plated dish per person, you will eat from shared, communal platters. Immigrants take their food traditions with them to new countries and cook the food they know as a way to preserve their culture. If you grew up with the smell of Nonna’s slow-cooked sugo wafting through the house, it will have created a bond with your family that will be there for life.

    For many of us, food traditions are not part of our social fabric anymore. They have been lost amongst a

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