Your response to the readings below should be in your Journal by the start of class at 11a.m. on Tuesday, September 10.
For your first story assignment (which we will talk about in detail during class on Tuesday, September 3), you will use food (or drink) as a vehicle to explore personal history. This week, you will read a bunch of stories that do this in different ways.
Please read:
- ‘Can We Honor Your Service with a Steak, a Malibu Chicken, or the Jumbo Crispy Shrimp?’, by Erin Clare Brown (Eater)
- This excerpt from the book Trail of Crumbs, by Kim Sunée
- This excerpt from the book The Gastronomical Me, by M.F.K. Fisher
- This excerpt from the book The Cooking Gene, by Michael Twitty
- This excerpt from Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner (The New Yorker)
- Oysters: A Love Story, by Tejai Rao (The New York Times)
- All I Want Are Some Potato Skins, by Keith Pandolfi (Serious Eats)
Here’s a PDF of all this reading as one big packet.
It’s a good chunk of reading, so don’t wait till the last minute. In your Journal doc, tell me which one of these is/are your favorite(s) and why. What does your favorite story do that the others don’t? Did you not like one or more of these? If so, tell me why. What are you favorite passages? Record at least three passages you appreciate.