Several members of my restaurant staff are from Mexico. I learned from them a novel way of celebrating the New Year. As the New Year approached and we were busy preparing for our lunch rush, I noticed my staff exchanging bags and handfuls of lentils. I had to ask what it was all about. I [...]

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My daughter told me the other day that”we should start our own tradition for the New Year”.  That got me thinking about the concept of tradition, and I checked the dictionary, which told me that it was, among other things” an established way of thinking, feeling, or doing.” It is also defined as, “a cultural [...]

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