Edible Michiana Holiday 2022

practical applications of this knowledge in our home are still messy and very much a work in progress. We are a multi-ethnic family who came together through adoption, so heritage for us has partially been passed down, but it has also been suppressed and will most likely be researched, traced back and braided together with other cultural strands. It will take a village. What is certain is that the next generation is hungry, and she has been comfortable taking over the kitchen lately. At times, my daughter announces at the grocery store that she is cooking dinner. I watch her confident 8-year-old body meander through the aisles with her own cart and wash her ingredients with energetic purpose once we are back home. As she chops and mixes ingredients I have never seen partying together before, she tells me, “I’m a wild chef. I cook off-menu. I make up my own dishes. This one is called ‘question soup!’” “An excellent name for a surprise soup!” I remark as her sous-chef. A most appropriate name for the unstable seed of heritage food blossoming in our home. of this knowledge in our home are still messy... While I know where I stand intellectually on food heritage, the practical applications

Anne C. Magnan-Park is a literary and film translator who teaches the literatures of the Pacific at Indiana University South Bend. Her motto: Eat local, read global.

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