Easter Sunday

One topic of discussion in my Cooking Up Culture class lately has been memory in association with food.  Given that this past Sunday was Easter, I felt that it was reasonable to discuss the association I place on memory and food in conjunction with Easter Sunday.  Easter is a very important holiday to me. I am a Christian and attend Botsford Baptist Church.  Easter Sunday is the day that Jesus was raised from the tomb, which is a very big deal to me.  This means that He died to conquer death for me.  Because of the price He paid by dying for my sins, I will be able to live again in Heaven with Him.  This Holiday represents so much more to me that Easter eggs and Bunnies.  While I agree that egg hunts and Easter bunny visits are definitely a fun part of Easter, it takes on a much more important role in my life.  It is the basis of my faith in Christ. My church has a “Sonrise” service every Easter morning.  Part of this service include communion, which is the Lord’s Supper.  Communion means “the breaking of bread.” It includes grape juice, which represents the blood of Jesus that cleanses our sins, and a small piece of bread, which represents the body of Christ.  Communion is time in which it is our privilege to enjoy fellowship with our risen Lord with each other.  This is a serious and meaningful time for Christians. After communion is over, there is prayer, and we sing a song before exiting.  This communion brings back the memory of being saved and baptized.  I was saved on February 28, 2011 when I was 18 years old.  This is a memory that is very precious to me, and I hold it close to my heart.  I associate my faith in Christ and my memory of being saved with Communion.  In David Sutton’s article entitled, “ Cooking Skills, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge,” he says “Skill raises issues of apprenticeship and repetition, and the education of the senses that allow for the comparisons necessary to judge the successful dish (Sutton 200).” While I understand that Sutton is not referring to communion, the connection that I make with this statement is that communion incorporates repetition and education.  Communion is something that is done a few times a year, and it occurs in the same way each time.  It is a repeated occurrence, and it also includes education about the Christian faith.  Without the education behind the Lord’s Supper, it has no meaning to you, and therefore you have no memory to associate with it.  Sutton also mentions that food is a “symbol of identity (Sutton 317).”  This can be seen in relation to Communion, because the food involved in communion is a symbol of the Christian identity.  Easter Sunday Communion represents a very precious memory to me and also represents part of the person I am. Sutton’s article expresses the connection between food and memory, which connects to the personal memory I have that connects with Communion. 

 The body and blood of Christ