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This is my final Presentation.
The beginning of spring quarter at The Evergreen State College was the beginning of many firsts for me. Though I was originally supposed to head back to Washington at the end of spring break, I was now staying at my… Continue Reading →
Eating Memoir Week 8 A beautiful thing happens when people sit around a table together for a meal. This naturally social event causes interaction on a very human level over something that is so common yet personal for everybody. Food,… Continue Reading →
Eating Memoir Week 7 “The nan is the staff of life for the Uyghur people; it has an almost sacred significance” (Dunlop, 2008, p. 243). The Uyghur people are not the only ones who treat bread as if it is… Continue Reading →
Eating and Drawing Memoir Week 6: “Food insecurity is a characteristic of our food system, one that has been amplified, not created by the COVID pandemic” (Williams). During the presentation “Eating During COVID-19: Food Banks and Cooking With Food Insecurity”… Continue Reading →
An Eating/Drawing Memoir “People want to eat delicacies like shark’s fin just because they are rare and expensive, and because they are the kind of thing emperors used to eat” (Dunlop, 2008, p. 262)! I decided to illustrate my own… Continue Reading →
Eating Memoir: Week 4 “The only way to recover my wanton old appetite is to draw a deliberate blind over all the evidence, to switch off my brain, and to eat without thinking” (Dunlop, 2008, p. 281). Though there are… Continue Reading →
“I ask you, what kind of people worship food and money?” (Dunlop, 2008, p. 153). Eating Memoir Week 3 The question “what kind of people worship food and money” is not easy to answer. There are certain foods that I… Continue Reading →
Eating Memoir week 2 “To a person like me, whose parents grew up in England in the Swinging Sixties, and who has never been hungry, these wretched life stories are hard to comprehend. But in China, they are normal: …… Continue Reading →
Eating Memoir “If you want a real encounter with another culture, you have to abandon your cocoon” (Dunlop, 2008, p. 152). When reading the chapter Sickness Enters Through the Mouth from Fuchsia Dunlop’s Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour… Continue Reading →