Food can gather people together

In every country people celebrate new years eve in different ways. Eventhought for other

cultures and countries the new year starts in a different day. In America we celebrate it on

the december 30. Family gather together. They eat chicken, pork and grapes. They dance all

night long. And they wait the year wishing that the next one will be better for them.

That night my family and the closes friends get together in one house to have dinner.

Everyone is assigned to bring one dish for the dinner. For example, my mother brings the

chicken, my aunt the pork or turkey. The rest can bring the dessert and drinks. The guesses

ussually arrive around 8:00 pm so they can set out the table and put all the food on place. After

everybody is there, we start eating and talking one each other and making jokes of all bad things

that happened during the year.

After everybody have finished eaten, we stay silence. The owner of the house raise his or

her voice to give a speak. This speak is to thank to everyone for have came and spent time with

them. Finally, the person wishes to all a good health, wealth and love for the new year. They

raise their glasses of champane and their cheer to one each other.

After they finish their drinks, we move to the living room. We turn the t.v. on so we can see

the people from Time Square. Before the clock reaches the midnight, we stand out and we keep

on our hands 12 grapes. While everybody is in circle, we start counting the seconds very loud.

Once the time reach to midnight, we start eating the 12 grapes wishing in our minds things

that we expect to do the next year. Right after, we start huging kissing and wishing to everyone

a happy new year. We take pictures and we dance all night long.

To conclude, the new year eve, is the day that families and closest friends gather together to

have dinner while waiting for the next year. Everybody try to have a good time by dancing,

and making jokes and wishing that the next year will be better.

According to the reading of like water for chocolate, I have learned that food can be a way to express people's feelings. Tita and Pedro are two characters that loved one each other. However, Pedro is married to her sister because her mother wanted to keep Tita single for all her life so she could take of her until she died.
Pedro accepted to married her sister because it was the only way of keeping close with Tita. Althought her mother wants them to keep them apart, they always find a way to be close. But one big sing of Tita to demostrated how she was so sad that her only love of her life was getting married another woman that it was not her, was when she baked the cacke for the wedding. And even though she followed all the instructions. Tears dropped into the mixture and at the time that all the guesses started eating the cacke everybody started feelig sick. As the same way as she was feeling inside of her heart.
Another occassion was, that when Pedro gave her flowers as excuse of being the woman that have been cooking for them for a year. Tita got so happy and she tie the flower againts her breast. Suddenly, it came to her mine to cook quail with the roses that Pedro gave her. At the time that there were eatin no one could not resist how tasty was the meal. "It is a dish for the gods" was the words of Pedro. Later, realizing that the food seemed to act as an aphrodisiac. Gertrudis, Tita's sister started feeling and intense heat on her body that she had to run to take a shower. But nothing could not stop her of continuing spreading the heat that eventually began a fire. This reaction of her sister was another sign of Tita's feelings toward Pedro because the food was cooked with a lot of love and thinking only in him. This is why i say that food could be a way of expressing our feeling toward others.

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