Eat, Drink and be Merry!

Today was demo day for me!  It was great to see my fellow SIers indulging me in my food inquiry piece.  It is great to be surrounded by so many encouraging people looking into my food wanderings within an English class.  After the demo there were so many pieces I felt like I forgot to tell my fellow writers about.  This is definitely an inquiry that is going to be a work in progress for myself.  I know that looking at the recipe genre was a small portion of the overall piece of inquiry...but I think it was a great start!

Following today's class, it was great to socialize and just be with the Writing Project Gang.  The whole idea of creating a community of writers has so much to say about my time during the Writing Project.  Eat, drink and be merry is definitely a theme I see running through my head.  The more I look into the inquiry of food, the more relevant I believe this is in teaching and learning.

 

What is so funny about this inquiry is that now I see how it surrounded me.  In May I flew home for a wedding in Michigan and my mom and I ran out to lunch and poked around some of my favorite bookstores.  This is the one book that we found and she surprised me with it recently.  Two things to know about me:

 

1) I love things all Jane Austen and 2) I love things all Mr. Darcy

 

Needless to say this was the PERFECT cookbook for me!

 



 

I am going to link some ideas that I have surrounding my food inquiry.  Maybe they will be helpful or at least start to create a conversation about authentic work and discovery in the classroom.  Last blog post of the summer institute...EEK!

 

Food and Literature

Book Club Pairing

Class Syllabus on Food and Writing (MIT)