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Being the Christmas Day chef: A ritual to relish 24 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Financial Times By: John Gapper From ceremonial banquets to dinner parties, feasts are important social and familial rituals. At our house, Christmas lunch is the most significant meal of all. But, as the anthropologist Chloe Nahum-Claudel has written, "a feast's consummation is often rather transitory in contrast to the elaborate labours that lead up to it". I know this because some of those elaborate labours are performed by me — not so much table-setting and present-wrapping, but co...

Why Americans will be demanding proof of vaccination Why it matters: The federal government will probably neither mandate nor encourage digital immunity passports or other proofs of vaccination. But privately-operated digital certificates are already being developed — and U.S. law means that anybody who gets vaccinated here should be able to obtain the proof they need. The big picture: Your employer has a clear interest in knowing whether you’ve been vaccinated, as do the immigration staff in any foreign country you want to visit. Many workers, from nursing-home aides to opera singers, ha...

Why Americans will demand to be able to prove they're vaccinated Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios You've received a coronavirus vaccination — but can you prove it? The answer to that question will help determine how the global economy functions for the next few years. Why it matters: The federal government will probably neither mandate nor encourage digital immunity passports or other proofs of vaccination. But privately-operated digital certificates are already being developed — and U.S. law means that anybody who gets vaccinated here should be able to obtain the proof they need. The big p...