First Date Cutlery
Family and Tradition The brunyol is a typical dessert made out of a wheat-based dough, flavoured with anise. Shaped into individual pieces, fried and finished off with a sweet topping is consumed in Catalunya during the Lent and Easter holiday. For years, brunyols have been baked every year in my home. Although is a tiring activity and sometimes you do not feel desire to do it, it has become a family tradition and it is still on going nowadays.
Figure 14: My grandmother, my mother and I cooking.
We always cook lots of kilos and we have the habit to share it with our friends and neighbours. This practice is particularly usual in the village where my family is originally. Having a peasant farmer tradition, people usually exchange the surplus of their harvest.
Culture
In my childhood memories I remember my great-grandmother baking with my mother and my grandmother, now new generations has taken over for them. For me, this tradition has become something else than cooking; is a way to forge bonds between my family and I, which food is the link.
Figure 15: Dough.
Figure 16: Brunyols.
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