I just finished reading The Birth House by Ami McKay and enjoyed it. I was really taken, captivated actually, by the idea of the Groaning Cake. In the book, friends arrive to care for a woman in labor and create---instead of a anxious environment---a cake. They bake it together and eat it together and it's full of carbs and things to sustain the laboring mum till she births her babe.
The groaning cake got me to wondering if there are other traditional recipes that support fertility, pregnancy, birth, and lactation. I'm really interested in the sort of spiritual/superstitious aspects of the recipes, but am also interested how the foods support the body as it goes through the above conditions.
I'm just starting my research, so far have contacted about 3,000 moms in the DC area and will start looking at older published sources in my library in Nova Scotia tomorrow.
Of course, I'm expecting my own little baby, sometime in the next two weeks; so I have a heightened interest in the subject of food and pregnancy. Mostly, I suppose, because I'm hungry all the time.
More later.
Christine
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