Életfordulók és közösen végzett munkák ételei és szokásai az 1940-es évektől napjainkig

The aim of this study is to investigate food prepa-ration traditions of events and occasions, based on personal discussion and provided photographs. Christeninglunch is of greater importance since 1960, as children are born in a hospital and it enables parents to spend more time with pre-paring the christening event. In the age of home birth, it was necessary to christening the child on the first or the second day of birth due to the higher mortality rate. This ensured that the child would not pass away as a pagan. Some traditions such as christening feast(paszita in Hungarian) as well as the “pal-bowl sending” also disappeared or changed since the 1960’s. Instead of food preparation for the mother during three days after childbirth, giving a higher value gift became general. The tradition modified due to the change in lifestyles. Women, working on collective farms or elsewhere, had dif-ficulties in allocating their time compared to previous periods when they worked on their own family farms. The reason for disappearing of “pal-bowl sending” may have been that the young already returned to the student dormitory, or simply were not at home since they were away for a month since the 1970’s. Holy Communion and Confirmation-related practices also adjusted to the given era, especially in case of inviting godparents living far away. Confirmation parents go to dine to the confirmee’s place. Differences are experienced in tradi-tions of weddings and “death feasts” among villages of 3-4 km distance.