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| Volume XXIII Number 14 | October 18, 2002 |
Learning, Cooking, Enjoying: Culture Day
By Paula CasselsBRIGHTON - On Sept.20, community members were hard at work, cooking and cleaning the catch of the day for the Brighton Culture Day.
Behind the rodeo arena, Sheila Jones and Delaney Osceola were learning how to clean curlew.
Over an open fire, Jenny Snow was cooking turtles, garfish and biscuits. While cooking, Jenny said that Seminoles eat all kinds of turtles. She tapped them on the side and back to check if they were done. When they crumbled or the back of the turtle shell cracked open, the turtle was ready to eat.
Later that day, Jenny Snow also displayed how to weave a berry basket from a palm leaf. Next to Jenny Snow was Martha Jones, who had her own table under a chickee where she was teaching the children how to open and clean garfish. Garfish are hard to cut open, because they have alligator-like skin that is rough, wet and slippery.
At one of the larger chickees, others were cooking deer meat, pork, curlew, fry bread, swamp cabbage and guava sofkee.
Swamp cabbage is made in different ways some woman boil it with bacon and others like it with sugar.
While all this cooking was going on, Happy Jones and few other elders was telling traditional stories to all the children setting down listening to them at one long table with benches.
When the food was done, Alice Snow gave grace and everyone filled their plates and enjoyed the food.
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