Having scrambled eggs on Christmas made this expat's New Delhi Christmas celebration a little less expat.
"Do you like eggs?" She laughed. She looked at me, so I laughed too. Wolfe scowled. "Confound it, are eggs comical? Do you know how to scramble eggs, Mrs. Valdon?" "Yes, of course." "To use Mr. Goodwin's favorite locution, one will get you ten that you don't. I'll scramble eggs for your breakfast and we'll see. Tell me forty minutes before you're ready." Her eyes widened. "Forty minutes?" "Yes. I knew you didn't know.
Our presents, too, served to illustrate how alien we were from our culture; we loved receiving gifts, sure, particularly since many of them had been bought on our family's last trip to the States, hoarded away, safe in that uniquely sturdy packaging that was the telltale sign of the Global North. These were products of American provenance, and they were evidence that we were in fact, sometimes, maybe every other summer, Americans for a little while.
That same dynamic worked with respect to our food. Every year, our Christmas breakfast consisted of scrambled eggs, bacon, and a virgin Mary, made with some Bloody Mary cocktail mix, specifically brought home for the occasion from the most recent trip abroad. But the bacon available to us wasn't the belly bacon available here in the US; it was loin bacon, or Canadian bacon, and, to boot, it was bad.
It made, as if by magic, our ratty bush into a true Christmas tree, our New Delhi Christmas celebration a little less expat. Nowadays, ironically enough, my wife and I eat dosas and country ham for Christmas breakfast. The combination is more complementary than it may seem; each has a fermented tang that complements the other, and a red eye gravy spiked with brown sugar offers the illusion of balance to the meal.
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