The Food Connection
The very first friends we made when we moved here six years ago are leaving our area and I feel a great loss. They helped us move in, they invited us to their son’s first birthday party and he became our daughter’s first friend. We’ve celebrated many birthdays together, had countless game nights and picnics at the beach, done preschool co-ops and served together in church responsibilities. Earlier this week I went to help them pack up their house and my friend made these amazing cupcakes that she often makes and I love them. As I shoved two of them in my face, I realized that I have this recipe and for the rest of my life when I make these cupcakes, I will think of Christina and her family. Food connects us in a way that I don’t think anything else can because it combines the power to trigger memories through multiple senses with sociality, family togetherness, emotion and tradition. My grandmother made homemade bread and my father loved coming home to the s...