Holiday Food

Food is an important part of holiday traditions. Whether you gather with family and friends to celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, the changing of the seasons, or something else, holidays are a time to remember who we are and where we’ve come from. They’re also a time to think about our future and who we want to become.

Episode Transcript

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EPISODE CREDITS:

Produced by Kent Davies

Speakers: Sarah Elvins, Erin Weinberg, and Jennifer Dueck

Episode image: Deborah Lee Soltesz

Gallery images: sourced by Sarah Elvins

Theme music: Robert Kenning

SPEAKERS

Sarah Elvins, Erin Weinberg, and Jennifer Dueck, “Holiday Food: Tastes from Home and Invented Traditions,” University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities Food Matters Research Cluster. Recorded December 9, 2022, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. Digital Audio Recording.

MUSIC

Lee Rosevere – A Ukulele For Christmas (Instrumental)

Kai Engel – Holiday Gift

Axletree – All in a Garden Green (Whistle Quartet Version)

Podington Bear – Caravan, Auld Lang Syne

SOURCES

Alameddine, Rabih. “Christmas in Beirut.” The Rumpus (24 December 2010).

“Christmas: A Lebanese Celebration Tale.” The Taste-Buds: A Global Food Blog (25 December 2009).

Contois, Emily. Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender & Power Collide in Food Media & Culture. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. and Terence O. Ranger. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge and NY: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Korinek, Valerie. Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Lamaa, Nicol. “A Very Lebanese Christmas.” Lacuna Voices.