By Category Explore the best Living sites in Greenville and around the world. Search 900,000 of the world's best sites . Search The Reflector Suggest a Greenville website. As my aunt, weary from standing for eight hours receiving a continuous line of mourners, looked at the town's offerings, she saw the outpouring of love from their gardens and kitchens. It was a consoling sight from people whose lives they had touched day after day.
Funeral food plays that role.
I share your loss and this moment with you. I have stopped my usual activities to prepare or pick up this food for you. Food is an offering, a ritual of closure, of care, of cleansing, says Howard Starr, professor of psychology and dean of social sciences at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. It says, 'I have done something. I have participated in your grief.