Question

9.) Throughout the world, people use food and eating to mark the seasons, to signal changes in status (such as growing up or getting married), to honor their gods, and to say something about themselves. Holidays are culinary and sometimes people even explain why they eat certain things on these occasions. Americans do that at Thanksgiving: We eat turkey, corn, succotash, and Indian pudding because the Pilgrims ate them at the first Thanksgiving.

Jewish people provide such explanations at
Passover, Christians during Lent.

Answer 1

Answer: Option 2

Explanation: The definition of culinary is a definition that is related to cooking, all the other options would make little to no sense due to that, and what is cooking related to? Food. And what is food related to according to paragraph 9? The holidays. But that's just my connections.