I have always liked this holiday and it is a special one for my family. I know what you're thinking, that I like Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival, because it usually falls around Canadian Thanksgiving. Well, that is definitely a coincidence, and not the reason that I like the holiday. Mostly, I like the holiday because it is the one time during the year that my whole family on my mom's side squeezes together into a sukkah. Even though it is usually cold and we have to bundle up in our coats, scarves, etc., it is a special time for us to be together.
I remember learning as a child that we eat and spend a lot of time in the sukkah even though it is super cold out because it is supposed to remind us that we are strong and that we, as a Jewish people, can survive anything, even the Canadian cold fall weather. But, then during my 3rd year of university when I studied at Hebrew University, I realized that Sukkot in Israel is actually in fantastic weather for eating outside! So, there went that theory.
My cousins and I even discussed this while sitting in the Samson family sukkah in Efrat. I think it was cousin Maury who spoke about the image of the sukkah in this famous verse that is in many t'fillot:
"hapores sukkat shalom aleinu","הפורס סוכת שלום עלינו" God who protects us with a sukkah over us
He said that this image of a sukkah as a form of protection is kind of intriguing, since it is not always the most protective, stable structure. Why not a building or better yet a fortress? But, as long as God is part of the structure, protecting, then maybe it will make it safer. I think that when you think of an empty sukkah, that it seems fragile, but, maybe when the image of that structure includes people in it, together they make each other stronger and feel safer.
So, this cocktail is an attempt to create your very own sukkah in a glass, complete with brown "walls" to represent the wooden walls of many sukkot and a green and beige top to represent the green and beige schach (roof). This is also adapted from a cocktail that I helped my Sabba make in a sukkah one time when we had a dairy meal. Oh yeah, fyi, this cocktail is DAIRY, so make sure that you're aware of this when you make this cocktail.
Sukkah in a Glass
-take a cold glass and dip the rim of the glass into graham cracker bits
-add the following ingredients into the glass:
-one shot of chocolate liquor or Khalua
-1 and 1/2 shot of chocolate milk
-one shot of peppermint schnapps or creme demint
-fill the rest of the glass with chocolate or mint ice cream
-add a fresh mint leaf on the top
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