They’re some real goodies: MLA Nicholas Simons

Special memories and cherished recipes. We asked qathet’s newlyelected local politicians (plus our MP and MLA) for their favourite holiday food moments to get to know them a little better.

Like many families, music, decorations, family visits and food were all central to our holidays.

My father was a singer and my mother taught elementary school, and many relatives lived nearby, so there were always people dropping in -meaning that all day long something was being cooked or even better, baked.

My favourite was the smell and taste of gingerbread -especially cookies. My mother would almost always make a gingerbread house, and me and my five siblings would stare at it, me trying to figure out what piece or decorative element could be eaten without it being noticed.

When the Christmas season was over, and we always counted the 12 days, somehow the gingerbread house would be deconstructed and consumed, stale and dry by then, but somehow delicious anyway.