Tag: Equity

18 July. Recipe Workshop & hooks

Leave a comment

Course Blog Sign-Up

Course Blog Privacy Settings

WordPress Basics

Follow along as I work through the following:
  • 1. Creating new posts
  • 2. Categories and Tags
  • 3. Media

Reflection: Field Notes

How might you incorporate your field journal data into your introduction and/or recipe recision?
  • 1. How did approaching the grocery store as a “naturalist” and not as a customer change the way your observed the exterior/interior, layout, advertising, and/or place of your ingredients in larger food systems?
  • 2. Were you confronted by several different brand OR options for the same items? If yes, how did you decide which to choose?
  • 3. Were you able to find all your items? Did you have to make substitutions? If yes, describe the substitutions you had to make.
  • 4. Is cooking for yourself more or less sustainable than eating on campus, why/why not?
  • 5. Did yesterday’s trip challenge your point of view on public transportation?

Recipe Revision

How sustainable is your recipe & what can you change to make it more sustainable? To answer this question, please take 10-15 mins to complete the following:
  • 1. Environment: which if your ingredients is the most environmentally detrimental (carbon emitting, monoculture, GMO, factory farmed)? Which of your ingredients is the least environmentally detrimental?
  • 2. Equity: How accessible is your recipe and/or ingredients? Does your recipe contend with competing food communities? Is your recipe healthy?
  • 3.Economic: how expensive/affordable is your recipe? Can you make it repeatedly? 

hooks, “Preface” (1-5) & “Kentucky is my Fate”

Answer the following in 4 groups of six and write the highlights of your answers on the board
  • 1. How does hooks answer the question with which she opens her book? How does she “embrace an ethos of sustainability that is not solely about the appropriate care of the world’s resources, but is also about the creation of meaning—the making of lives that we feel are worth living?” (1)? OR, find an example from her narrative in which “life” is both good for the environment and good for people.
  • 2. What accounts for hooks’s experience where “white and black folks often lived in a racially integrated environment, with boundaries determined more by chosen territory than race” (7)? How was racial and class difference enforced once hooks moved from the country to the city?
  • 3. How does hooks define the term, “A Culture of Belonging” (13)? What does this term contribute to our discussion of sustainability?
  • 4. How does hooks look to the past, generally, and her past, specifically, but without idealizing either history or her past. In other words, how does she avoid the problem of nostalgia when writing about place and family?

 

RQ: hooks, Preface and “Kentucky Is My Fate”

Leave a comment

Featured Image: Blue Ridge Mountains

Directions

Keep the following questions in mind as you read bell hooks, Preface and “Kentucky Is My Fate.” The questions are designed to guide your reading practices and our class discussions. You are not required to provide formal answers in class or online.

Preface

Let’s start thinking about hook’s opening question:

“Can we embrace an ethos of sustainability that is not solely about the appropriate care of the world’s resources, but is also about the creation of meaning—the making of lives that we feel are worth living?” (1)

How does the “Shadowy history of slavery” find expression in the world of real estate (3)?

How/why will hooks engage with Wendell Barry’s work?

How will hooks look to the past and her past, but without idealizing the history/her past. In other words, how does she plan to avoid the problem of nostalgia when writing about place and family?

Chapter 2, “Kentucky Is My Fate”

How/why does the opening line of the chapter echo Thoreau? What does hooks do differently?

Why open a story about living in a place, and to a lesser extent the past, with the vision of her own death? How does the image of “scattering my remains as though they are seeds and not ash”(6), figure the future and also avoid the pitfalls of nostalgia?

What lines divide hooks’ childhood? How does the house she lived in with her family in the Kentucky hills illustrate the spatial and temporal differences of her childhood?

How is Nature (or the Nature hooks experienced as a child) the “foundation of our counter hegemonic black subculture” (8)?

What accounts for her experience where “white and black folks often lived in a racially integrated environment, with boundaries determined more by chosen territory than race” (7)?

How was racial difference enforced when she once hooks moved from the country to the city?

Why did hooks leave Kentucky and what was her experience of place when she was an undergraduate at Stanford?

How/why were hooks and her community separated from nature? Why/how did this separation produce fear of nature in her?

What are the two “competing cultures in Kentucky” (10)?

How does hooks define the term, “A Culture of Belonging” (13)?

How did hooks’ “experience of exile” while in CA for college, “transform [her] perception of the world of home” (13)? What takes her so long to go home to Kentucky?

 

 

 

 

Guest Speaker, ATL Urban Farms, July 16

Leave a comment

Bacon ipsum dolor amet pork loin bacon sausage shoulder doner chicken beef ribs venison andouille drumstick strip steak short ribs filet mignon jowl. Sausage meatball cow pastrami bacon pork chop drumstick. Strip steak turkey beef, tenderloin pig shoulder buffalo short loin chicken doner tongue bacon beef ribs tail meatloaf. Pork belly buffalo sirloin kevin burgdoggen.

Sausage spare ribs beef ribs ball tip short ribs tongue capicola jerky. Pastrami flank t-bone fatback burgdoggen, landjaeger chicken jerky leberkas venison meatloaf pork loin short loin bresaola beef. Brisket ribeye meatball, pig pork loin cupim landjaeger buffalo bacon turkey corned beef jowl spare ribs strip steak pancetta. Andouille beef ribs prosciutto strip steak cupim ball tip pork pig. Frankfurter salami jerky meatloaf chuck turkey ham.