Next week is Passover, which is one of my favorite holidays. Unfortunately, the seder that I usually attend is this weekend, so I will be sulking accordingly. I'm only sort of joking. Passover is great, specifically because of its ritualized eating interwoven with stories. Our Passover (celebrated at a friend's house) is fairly nontraditional, and the stories always include a political element.
For those of you who don't know, Passover celebrates Moses and the freeing of the Jews from the Egyptians (Boo, Pharaoh!), but a lot of the celebrating centers around the symbolism behind the food we eat (Jonathan Safran Foer does an excellent job of describing this in his book, Eating Animals).
On that note, check out this awesome website, where you can learn more about how Passover is a also celebration of the seasonal changes, and the seder plate as well as the other food reflects this. To learn more about Passover as a political experience, you can see what I wrote here.
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