The Holidays, Togetherness, and the Spirit of the Season

What do the Holidays mean, to you? As in, what is the most important aspect to the Holiday season?

I'm sure everybody has their own opinions, along with their own experiences that give particular aspects of the holidays meaning to them.

For some it's getting together with friends and family and spending family time. For some it is getting a break from work, or from school. For others, perhaps, it's all about the gifts and about going shopping for lots and lots of gifts and receiving lots and lots of gifts. For yet others, it's about the Christmas parties. For me, it has always been about the food.

I feel pretty confident in using the term always in this particular context because I remember the holidays being the one time out of the year when there was always a huge overflow of delicious food coming from the kitchen, for more than a week!

It wasn't that we were poor or starving or anything like that, but my mom was of the firm belief that if you had too much food readily available "you would get fat" and there was nothing worse in life than to be getting fat, accordingto her worldview. So most of the time she had us on a food plan that could keep her from putting on any extra vanity pounds.

That, however, all went away during the holiday season when she not only went to work on cooking all kinds of delicacies, but our extended family would bring all kinds of delicacies from their homes. And what a feast that would be!

All these years later, the food remains the most important part of the holidays for me. I love not only eating it but I don't really mind cooking it as well, trying to recreate some of the flavors and scents in the house that we're so present when I was a little kid. Sure, it's been over 50 years since that time, but in some respects it feels like nothing has changed!

I don't know a lot of other people with as strong a Holiday "food attachment" as my family had... but I guess we're all different, in that respect.

Since those formative years, I have lived in many different countries, and I have always tired to bring the Danish Christmas flavors with me, as a small reminder of one of the really good parts of my childhood.

Tomorrow, I will start my own round of holiday cooking; adding a little Danish flavor to our holidays. Mrs. Denmarkguy is large part Scandivian, so this food feels very natural to her, as well.

Hard to believe we are already so close to the end of the year... I have no idea where time goes!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful remainder of your Holiday weekend!

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