Cultural Potluck
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Anonymous
| Our school is hosting a cultural potluck event where you bring a dish that represents your heritage. What do you bring when your family has been in the US for 100+ years and ancestors are from England, Ireland, Wales but you have no connection to those countries? My daughter is stressing over this unnecessarily! |
Anonymous
| Bring something regional to the area of the US where your family settled? Pecan pie if you have a lot of family in the south, casserole if you’re midwestern, etc. |
Anonymous
| My family has been in this country for about a hundred years…my grandparents were still immigrants. 100 years isn’t exactly arriving on the Mayflower. |
Anonymous
If you have no connection, no traditions from any of those places, make an Apple pie. |
Anonymous
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Each of my kids called each of their grandparents and asked for a suggested recipe from their grandparents. My husband's mother, who matches your "been in the US for 100+ years and ancestors are from England, Ireland, and Wales" suggested a cottage cheese and jello salad that she remembered her mother making.
One kid chose that from all the recipes suggested by the grandparents, and brought that in. Other two kids picked recipes suggested by grandparents that were more traditionally "heritage day", but the kid who made the cottage cheese and jello monstrosity absolutely loved it. |
Anonymous
| We do not go to International Day or cook for it. We are American by heritage (our great great great grandparents immigrated). It is not for us so we do not attend. |
Anonymous
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Bring a dish your family enjoys at holidays or family gatherings. Even if it's mac and cheese or some type of cookie you bake for Christmas - that IS your cultural cuisine.
And for the previous poster - nonsense. You can attend International Day. You can even have a table for the USA and present things that are uniquely American (apple or pecan pie, baseball, etc) |
Anonymous
| I would revert to my immigrant grandparents and bring an Irish Bread. |
Anonymous
I'm not sure you understand what International Day is or why it exists. |
Anonymous
Why do you need a connection to the country? Pick one place and one food from there. |
Anonymous
| My family is from NY and goes back 4 generations, the earliest two generations are all dead, and I can't cook for shit. We bring in bagels, lox, butter and cream cheese. It's quintisential NY. |
Anonymous
Love this. |
Anonymous
| If it’s to celebrate culture, what foods are a part of hour family’s individual culture? Are there cookies that you like to make with your daughter? Maybe a cake that your mom made for your birthday? How about that strange dish your in-laws made that you’ll never understand? Whatever food has special significance for your family I think you should use to represent your culture. |
Anonymous
| Bring a tray of Chik Fil A and call it a day. |
Anonymous
They’d probably be the first thing to get polished off. |