Jewish Christmas

As everyone knows, American Jews celebrate Christmas with a meal composed of the North American Ashkenazi Diaspora's traditional cuisine, Chinese-American food. Thus, Jeff Weintraub directs our attention to two key documents. One, Brandon Walker, "Chinese Food on Christmas":

Two, Gaye Tuchman and Harry G. Levine, "New York Jews and Chinese Food: The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern", Contemporary Ethnography, 1992: Vol 22 No 3. pp. 382-407.

Comments

"A few Jews now in their forties told us that eating Chinese food actually had such strong associations with Jewishness that they avoided Chinese restaurants."

Anti-semites!

Posted by ~~~~ | December 25, 2007 2:00 PM

I've been in that restaurant. The artist is from Baltimore.

Posted by Matthew Saroff` | December 25, 2007 2:37 PM

What do you do if you live in an area where all Chinese restaurants close for Christmas? Even though, we're 45 minutes from a major city, it's a fact.

Posted by Koshembos | December 25, 2007 6:05 PM

We just came back from overeating at Mark's Duck House in Seven Corners. Most of the patrons were Asian. So there's a new cliché: Chinese people eat at Chinese restaurants on Christmas!

Posted by jim | December 25, 2007 7:09 PM

Back in Christmas, 2002, the snow was so bad that we couldn't make it to our relatives 90 miles away for Christmas dinner and had to turn back. Our kitchen was empty, so in an act of pushing our cultural boundaries, we got Chinese food.

How is is that no one has referenced Darlene Love's SNL short Christmas Time for the Jews ?

Posted by Tyro | December 26, 2007 1:00 AM

What do you do if you live in an area where all Chinese restaurants close for Christmas? Even though, we're 45 minutes from a major city, it's a fact.

Posted by wmwebtr ödüllü seo yarışması | December 27, 2007 11:13 AM