{"id":283,"date":"2025-01-15T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-01-15T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:22:14","slug":"the-beginning-of-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/the-beginning-of-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spring of 2023 I found myself invited by my partners family to join them on a 3-week trip to Spain and the opportunity to complete a quarter of research, travel and writing was laid out before me.\u00a0 I contacted Sarah Williams who would become an integral teacher and guide for the years to come. With her help I created my first ILC: Tasting Spain a Food Adventure: The Food and Culture of Catalan, Basque and Andalucia. I had always wondered how people travel, meet people who are doing amazing things with food and history and culture and write about them.\u00a0 I set out to research the areas in Spain that were on our itinerary and one of the writers I came across was Claudia Rodan, a cookbook author but so much more, she is a historian, a storyteller a documentarian of a story of a place and its people \u00a0told through food.\u00a0 I was inspired tremendously by her and connected to her in that we were both setting out on a food adventure in similar times of our lives, 50 years apart. I gathered some courage and decided to extend my trip and after 3 weeks of traveling with companions in the north of Spain I would venture out on my own for the first time and travel solo to the South of Spain for 10 days.\u00a0 \u00a0The Query<\/u><\/em> was coming to life.\u00a0 Remember at this point I was thinking it was impossible to create my education and career path around The Query<\/u><\/em>, yet here is a quote from this trip that shows it was there all along, guiding me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is always interesting to me to follow the humble beginnings of a dish that then becomes an integral part of a culture. I would like to choose a few of these foods and follow them through time.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
This quarter, this project was a turning point, I got more than a taste of adventure and discovery and I wanted to share it with everyone.\u00a0 I created a WordPress of my experiences and the food and culture of Spain through writing, recipes and images. \u00a0\u00a0I learned that just 4 weeks of travel could produce endless research and writing to share. \u00a0And on a little drive across Spain, olive trees whisking by The Query <\/u><\/em>firmly planted the interest I would choose to continue my education at Evergreen and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tasting Spain: A Food Adventure, the food and culture of Catalan, Basque and Andalusia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring of 2023 I found myself invited by my partners family to join them on a 3-week trip to Spain and the opportunity to complete a quarter of research, travel and writing was laid out before me.\u00a0 I contacted Sarah Williams who would become an integral teacher and guide for the years to come. With … Continue reading The Beginning of Adventure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/foodagproject-su24-ball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}