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I returned home with much more information than I could have shared in one quarter.\u00a0 This was exciting! The information and connection to Claudia Rodan had me wanting to dive into how she did it \u2013 how does she travel and experience, research and learn then share her experiences.\u00a0 One particular interest at this point, that I still did not think I was capable of was how did she meet the people that she learned from and had experiences with while on the road?\u00a0 How did she set out and end up having dinner in the home of the person who grew the artichokes, or the person who was preserving the traditions of a food culture passed down for generations that she baked with \u2013 was she just extremely gregarious?\u00a0 I did not feel I was.\u00a0 During this trip I played around with talking to strangers, asking questions and connecting with the people of the place through food.\u00a0 It was awkward and I fumbled through it with out any real success. I thought about this a lot after I came home, The Query<\/u><\/em> not letting me alone about it. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to use summer quarter 2023 to work through all I learned, experienced and gathered from my trip and write about it, I had so many more questions than answers. I decided learning how Claudia Rodan did it was the way to go so I read and cooked through her magnum opus The Food of Spain, <\/em>a gigantic tome of history culture and recipes \u2013 it\u2019s beautiful.\u00a0 I allowed myself to play around with discovery of how I wanted to organize myself going forward, I knew I would continue to travel that bug being firmly planted and was already planning on how to get back to Spain to learn more. \u00a0The Query<\/u><\/em> began to appear over and over in it\u2019s true form, how could I make it work, how could I take these interests and research, experience, and share them? It was tangible now, instead of looking for a career path that I was supposed<\/em> to take, maybe I could make one out of this, other people have, I was beginning to see this.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0So, I spent the summer cooking and reading and pondering my next steps, allowing myself to think about all of this without having to have all the answers, I was beginning to have faith in myself and the power of doing something that lights you up. So I spent the summer playing around with documenting my trip and working through Rodan\u2019s book.\u00a0 My friends were fed very well that summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I returned home with much more information than I could have shared in one quarter.\u00a0 This was exciting! The information and connection to Claudia Rodan had me wanting to dive into how she did it \u2013 how does she travel and experience, research and learn then share her experiences.\u00a0 One particular interest at this point, … Continue reading Tasting Spain: Cooking, Writing, Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}