Before the heritage dinner, which took place on December 10th, I made latkes, which is enjoyed when the zoom meeting for the heritage dinner started. The reason I made latkes is because my family is vegetarian and lacked use of an oven during that time, due to an electrical problem. The latkes were delicious and I consumed them with a side of sour cream. During the dinner we listened to several speakers, all of them told stories of their heritage. Some told stories about coming of age, or visiting AC. All the stories were interesting and engaging.
After the speakers we were asked questions about our heritage. One of the questions was what’s our heritage, and the second was what we’d want to learn about our heritage. We were sent to breakout rooms to answer and talk about these questions with other people. In answer to the first question I have never known much about my heritage, which is mostly german and polish, but I enjoyed learning about other people’s heritage. Everyone in the breakout room had a different idea of what heritage meant, some thought it was your genetic heritage, others thought it was the culture you most identified with.
The second question was met with responses such as traveling to a country where their heritage was and eating the foods of that place. Some people simply wanted to know more about why their ancestors chose to leave their home country. I didn’t really have an answer for this question. This led me on a journey to discover more about my heritage. So over winter break I learned to make pierogi, the home made, polish way. We also made kabasha, polish sausage (in our case vegetarian) with onions. Both were amazing and pictures are included below:
This is part of the box that this is pointed at by the arrow
