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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was an event for friends and families not a State dinner.  She didn't throw out food you had planned to serve or try to make "better" versions, she just wanted to share because that is how she treats friends & family.

Any reasonable person had heard about Indian, Italian, Jewish. . . mothers and feeding others.  Ideally she shouldn't have pushed it on others but they are adults and can hold their own.[/quote]
I could kind of see my Korean mom doing this, too.   Making food for your loved ones is how certain cultures express their love.  It's cultural, and I think you need to maybe take a step back and understand her culture better.

My mother is now in her 80s and has dementia.  I've been thinking a lot lately about how she parented and behaved. I couldn't understand some of what she did having grown up here and being "Americanized", but as I have gotten older, and being a parent myself, I am now seeing that the way she parented is all cultural. She didn't mean to be rude. She's stuck in 1960's Korean culture.  [/quote]

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