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Food - Iroquois/Eastern Woodland
"One regular meal per day seems to have been the rule, although early writers record the preparation of two meals among the Huron. An Onondaga informant remembers when some of the older people had no regular meal-time. Members of the family ate whenever they felt like it. A big bowl of soup, however, was cooked in the morning. They usually worked for a while, then came in an ate the soup or corn bread...The meal is usually announced by the woman of the house...The men, as a rule, are helped first, the women and children coming after. The serving in former times was done directly from the pot into bark or wooden dishes, chunks of meat being handed or tossed to those desiring a portion...Wooden spoons or ladles, come of considerable size, were used for dipping and eating liquid foods. These are mentioned frequently by early historians , also the fact that each guest,upon being invited to a feast, was expected to bring his own dish and spoon. Each one ate in silence, either sitting or standing...Anyone coming in at meal-time is invited to eat and is expected as a matter of etiquette to take something."---Iroquois Food and Food Preparation, F.W. Waugh, facsimile 1913 edition [University Press of the Pacific:Honolulu HI] 2003 (p. 46-47)
