“Food is always good, always good for people, always a token of good feeling,” the anthropologists Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog write in Life Is with People, a description of the Eastern European shtetl. “To give food symbolizes not only maternal love but also the friendliness of the household to its visitors. Not to offer a guest ‘honor’ in the form of food…would be the equivalent of a rebuff.” - Quoted by Charles Silberman
All that we have is a gift. Who is truly deserving of the vast richness that they possess? That is why it is a gift. And aren’t gifts meant to be shared?
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