[Sca-cooks] Funeral foods ...

[Susan Fox]

The one that springs first to my mind is spiced cake, gingerbread or the 
like, which got attached to Hallowe'en and Christmas for its "Death" 
associations.  Death of the old year, that is.  I have heard a Yorkshire 
expression for someone who is about to die, "it looks like a case of 
currants cake and slow walking."

Comfort and joy to thee,
Selene

>A bit of a morbid question, but having just attended a funeral for a friend (only 45, gods rest her soul), and the family-hosted gathering afterwards, I got to wondering about food traditions associated with mourning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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>These days in the United States, it's all about potlucks and sweets, comfort foods. Not really ritual foods, but everyone knows someone in their families or among their friends who can be counted on to sustain the mourners with food. It's inevitable: if you're having a memorial gathering, suddenly you have enough food to feed an army.
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>Gianotta
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