Being the Christmas Day chef: A ritual to relish
24 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Financial Times
By: John Gapper From ceremonial banquets to dinner parties, feasts are important social and familial rituals. At our house, Christmas lunch is the most significant meal of all. But, as the anthropologist Chloe Nahum-Claudel has written, a feast s consummation is often rather transitory in contrast to the elaborate labours that lead up to it .
I know this because some of those elaborate labours are performed by me not so much table-setting and present-wrapping, but cooking lunch. To be more exact, cooking the main course while the puddings are handled by the bakers, my wife Rosie and our two daughters.
Why Americans will be demanding proof of vaccination
Why it matters: The federal government will probably neither mandate nor encourage digital immunity passports or other proofs of vaccination. But privately-operated digital certificates are already being developed and U.S. law means that anybody who gets vaccinated here should be able to obtain the proof they need.
The big picture: Your employer has a clear interest in knowing whether you’ve been vaccinated, as do the immigration staff in any foreign country you want to visit. Many workers, from nursing-home aides to opera singers, have a clear desire and even need to be vaccinated before doing their jobs. Which means they’ll need some kind of proof of vaccination.
Why Americans will demand to be able to prove they re vaccinated
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
You ve received a coronavirus vaccination but can you prove it? The answer to that question will help determine how the global economy functions for the next few years.
Why it matters: The federal government will probably neither mandate nor encourage digital immunity passports or other proofs of vaccination. But privately-operated digital certificates are already being developed and U.S. law means that anybody who gets vaccinated here should be able to obtain the proof they need.
The big picture: Your employer has a clear interest in knowing whether you ve been vaccinated, as do the immigration staff in any foreign country you want to visit. Many workers, from nursing-home aides to opera singers, have a clear desire and even need to be vaccinated before doing their jobs. Which means they ll need some kind of proof of vaccination.