1807 TLP Journaling Love these humans
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- When I saw this photo in the Washington Post food section, I immediately thought of the many family meals of my childhood. While my family wasn’t Italian and we didn’t live in Baltimore, my grandmother’s brother had married an Italian woman. When we visited them in their house out Queens in the 1950s, the meal was served down in the clubroom in the basement. I learned what big Italian meals were like! They had more space than this family but it had the same feel.
My own home had a basement that was turned into a room where we had the holiday family meals also. Our ceiling was higher than the Baltimore row houses and the pipes were covered with ceiling tile but we also had those meals all around a big table - a table that was really a ping-pong table that had a big white tablecloth that Nana or my mother had sewn from white sheets. When my Aunt, who had a dining room, had the family dinners on Christmas or Easter etc. she had tables coming out of the dining room into the living room to fit us all. Her house seemed so classy!
No matter what, there is nothing quite like a big family dinner to share food, stories and the love of family. At least that’s what we want to create and hope to remember even if our lives aren’t perfect. But there’s always next year!
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photo: LaurenDePino
Font: Archer Book Italic
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