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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These threads are always fascinating to me.

When this topic comes up among women I know, there seems to be a divide among people with strong food traditions and people with weak food traditions. Of the women I know, most women who are non-white or white women with a pronounced ethnic (Italian, Greek, French) heritage[b] see cooking as a part of heritage and tradition, how you bond, how you show love.[/b]
Balducci's is great for a lot of things, but once you learn how to cook, what they do isn't particularly special. Finely whipped and dusted with chives, mashed potatoes are still mashed potatoes. You can fire roast a pepper over a gas stove. And if you cook, you generally like to customize things to your own taste. For example, everyone makes sweet hams - but I like spicy. So over the years, I experimented enough to come up with a hot ham with a touch of sweetness (coke, paprika, cayenne, mustard).

If you love Balducci's by all means support them - but remember, people have memories associated with food, no matter what you do. For me, I was in a serious relationship a decade or so ago and there was a death in the immediate family around the holidays. No one wanted to cook so each meal was at a restaurant or catered.

Now, if I eat catered food around the holidays, it always tastes like grief.

8 hours in the kitchen is a long time for a holiday feast, but I'll happily take that.

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I'm late to the discussion, but thought this was a lovely post that captured the feeling of rightness that comes from being able to cook a big holiday feast and serve it to family and friends.  Mind you, I will happily eat a meal from Balducci's, Boston Market, etc. so long as there is good company and wine, but I'm always really touched when someone goes to the effort to cook for me.  [/quote]

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