As a child, you always try your best to connect with your family. Some children have more difficulty doing this than others tend to. You look for any way possible to feel connected and involved with the people you love. Just like M.F.K Fisher explains her feelings of disconnect with her father in The Gastronomical Me, I felt this same disconnect with my own father during my childhood. My father and I always had an awkward vibe between each other when together, but could never figure out why. All I wanted was to be able to spend time with him and feel connected. Whether watching tv together, going out for dinner, etc., we all want to feel linked to our own family. Food, on the other hand, can be a link that brings families together in ways nothing else can, and has been doing so for thousands of years.
Importance of Tradition…show more content… Every child seems to be closer to one parent than they are the other. In my family, I always seemed to be closer connected to my mother than I did with my father. We had the same interests in almost everything. Shopping, music, make up, and even reading were only a few of the things we enjoyed doing together. As for my father and me, we never seemed to be able to find many connections. Although we both enjoy food, I hated cooking. We never found a way to connect through food until my senior year of high school. In sociology class, my teacher, Mr. Borenstein, assigned us a project to research our family culture and history to create a dish relating to our specific culture. Knowing my father, I knew this would be an easy task. My father comes from an Irish family, and loves to cook all sorts of Irish dishes. When I was assigned this project, I knew exactly who I was going
