How Does Your Family Celebrate Catholic Food?

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Dolores49 said:
This thread’s purpose is to reflect on and learn about Catholic liturgical seasons through food. My family completely lost the connection to the faith. That’s sad. I’m still learning what the traditional foods mean. Catholics must lovingly keep these traditions.

So many have objected/questioned the phrase I used, “Catholic food.” Yet, would you question “halal food?” You know immediately that it is Islamic, right? That is a very sound reason for promoting Catholic food among ourselves.
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Thank you for clairifying.

I think that most of the traditions of what to serve on feast days is cultural-Most of these feasts are an interpretation from that.

Have you ever heard of “Bones of the Dead” for dia de la morta (all souls day) Or celebrate the feast of San Gennarro with zepploli’s? Have you ever served chocolate blood pie on Easter? These are practiced by some Italian Catholic’s and are pretty obscure unless you are of Italian. Bleh-I don’t think my girls would get engaged if I served blood pie to their boyfriends.:).

Everyone gets their spiritual cups filled differently- and perhaps your family does by food, or the attention that you give them through your daily celebration of it.
I get the point from your op that you value the cultural traditional roles of women in the kitchen and in life–and enjoy reflecting your love to the family this way- as well as having a liturgical calendar focus. Holiness is based on your walk with Christ, and everyone has their own walk…perhaps that’s where the flack came into some replies.

I have no idea about halal meat-nor do they sell it here so its not a problem for me. I am praying that your family returns to the faith and thank you for sharing.
 
DaddyGirl said:
I eat secular food, it’s food that has no religion:

Fish, meat, poultry, vegetables, fruit, wine, dark chocolate, french fries, parmesan cheese, eggs, popcorn.

Secular food.
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DG, you have excellent taste!

I find cheese incredibly multidimensional, including almost all cheap ones.

And “don’t get me started” on tea (preferably excluding Assam). Sri Lanka and Bulgaria are especially good at blending.

Being a space man, and keen on all sciences and history, though with low food skills. I mentally connect with the peoples and countries associated. And with the breeze and buttercups, and most especially God’s Providence every day.

Maybe the various varieties of Eccles cakes and Chorley cakes are a bit Catholic?

If I’m at a cheap cafe, when the fare is presented with sincerity I find it does me a huge power of good.
 
Xantippe said:
Weeeell, food has a different role in Islamic and Jewish religious culture than it does in Christian culture. In Jewish culture, only eating kosher food is a big deal–it keeps Jews socially separate from non-Jews and preserves Jewish identity.

We also don’t have the same idea of clean versus unclean that drives those food traditions.
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Granted. FYI - Muslims prefer the term “legal” or “permitted” under Sharia or Islamic jurisprudence to “unclean.”

Look into the modern halal trend. It is catching on among non-Muslims. But do you think it’s because of the Muslim religious laws? I know what halal meat is. Muslims have a right to it. Non-Muslims have a right to know what they’re buying.
 
Dolores49 said:
This thread’s purpose is to reflect on and learn about Catholic liturgical seasons through food. My family completely lost the connection to the faith. That’s sad. I’m still learning what the traditional foods mean. Catholics must lovingly keep these traditions.

So many have objected/questioned the phrase I used, “Catholic food.” Yet, would you question “halal food?” You know immediately that it is Islamic, right? That is a very sound reason for promoting Catholic food among ourselves.
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I have never heard the phrase “Jewish food” or “Muslim food” or “Hindu food” either. Halal and Kosher are different.

You can make up any phrase you want and use it as you want. Not everyone will like it.
A vatican cook book does not give any legitimacy to the phrase, sorry lol. Call your cooking what you want though. You absolutely have that right. To others, it is more like your own inside joke to use the phrase. Maybe even other people who are Catholics and cooks have used it. Well, that is your guys’s inside joke then. Of course it will seem weird to others. But if its not hurting others, it is not blasphemous and you like it, use the phrase.

If a protestant asks me “What is Catholic food? I heard that phrase, is it real” Of course I am going to say “No, there is no such thing” I might now say “I have heard a Catholic cook use that phrase kind of for fun or something but as far as anything officially called Catholic food there is no such thing”

Make sense?
 
LaughingBoy1503 said:
I have never heard the phrase “Jewish food” or “Muslim food” or “Hindu food” either. Halal and Kosher are different.

You can make up any phrase you want and use it as you want. Not everyone will like it.
A vatican cook book does not give any legitimacy to the phrase, sorry lol. Call your cooking what you want though. You absolutely have that right. To others, it is more like your own inside joke to use the phrase. Maybe even other people who are Catholics and cooks have used it. Well, that is your guys’s inside joke then. Of course it will seem weird to others. But if its not hurting others, it is not blasphemous and you like it, use the phrase.

If a protestant asks me “What is Catholic food? I heard that phrase, is it real” Of course I am going to say “No, there is no such thing” I might now say “I have heard a Catholic cook use that phrase kind of for fun or something but as far as anything officially called Catholic food there is no such thing”

Make sense?
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LaughingBoy - Tell that to the Boston Globe…

“Catholic Comfort Food” Boston Globe - bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/south/2016/03/18/lent-winds-down-memories-catholic-comfort-food/ev1wEAuINqxS4FLGK7R4RO/story.html#comments .
 
Dolores49 said:
LaughingBoy - Tell that to the Boston Globe…

“Catholic Comfort Food” Boston Globe - bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/south/2016/03/18/lent-winds-down-memories-catholic-comfort-food/ev1wEAuINqxS4FLGK7R4RO/story.html#comments .
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They threw a extra word in there “comfort” sorry, no go 😃

Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

The media also had my protestant Mom believing that The Pope was forgiving sins over twitter. I am not making that up. Not even the Boston globe can coin a phrase that makes something that does not exist a real thing.

Ill consider the phrase legit when I hear the pope say it is a real thing. I can accept that you can call your cooking what you want. Accept my position too.
 
Dolores49 said:
Okay, how about this one. I’m not making this up.

Have you heard of Catholic Climate? catholicclimatemovement.global/

Have you heard of Catholic Ecology? catholicecology.net/

They don’t exist either but they have their own websites. As do I.
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Did you just concede that Catholic food does not REALLY exist by your statment that “They don’t exist EITHER”? 😃 You are alright…lol

I am sure lots of people would love to have something to claim as “Catholic food” I am not one of them. That should not discourage you from calling what you cook whatever you want though. Or calling food made for a feast day “Catholic food” Have fun. 👍 God bless.
 
It is printed on my Eccles Cakes packet that the word “currant” comes from the name “Corinth”.

Quite spiritual then! 😉
 
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