The course was created to explore different options of cuisine that can be found in rich diversity of options locally. A large component of the course is to examine the interaction between culture and food, so we hope to have speakers who can help provide those connections. Likewise, we hope each day to visit restaurants to get food to eat outside or back at CA where we can taste what we have learned. Finally, we want to stress that nothing the students see, hear, or taste is weird – just different. Heather Clarkson, now Director of Enrollment at CA, had a sign in her office when she was dean of students that said “Don’t yuck other people’s yums.” That will be one of the cardinal rules of the course. As someone who grew up taking leftover eggplant parm or spinach and sausage pie for lunch while those around me were eating peanut butter and jelly or bologna (on Wonder Bread), I know a little what it is like to have those around me look at my food and ask questions. I am very excited, however, to learn more about foods I know, and many I don’t.
We will be blogging each day’s adventures. The students will take turns summarizing the day as part of their reflective writing before leaving. Though the blogs will be actually posted by me or Laurie Toreson (or Andy or Sydney, our intrepid student leaders), we will credit the actual authors so you know who specifically contributed that day.
