A Turkey in a Roasting Pan is a Beautiful Holiday Photgraph
Oct/110
How many of us chronicle the cooking of the turkey in photographs. Let’s face it it’s a great opportunity to get candid shots of moms and grandmothers. But the turkey in it’s roasting pan, with Mom doting over it is a classic American photographs.
I love the holiday scenes where you see all of the women in a family busy in the kitchen. Because you know more than just cooking is going on there. Everyone is getting caught up. But more than that advice is being passed from one generation to another. Treasured family recipes, never written down, are being passed on. That’s the only way that stuffing will taste as good in 25 years. Grandchildren are learning what life was like when their great grandparents came to the United States and settled in the city to start a new life.
So when I see a roaster pan filled with all-American dishes like Thanksgiving turkey, I think about all of the women who have been cooking those turkeys for generations. And how their lives have changed. You just have to look at the photographs over the years to see more than a change in fashion. What’s that a man in the kitchen – helping? Yes things have changed.