Mary,

Your class sounds very interesting.  A reference you may want to look at, if
you want to add something on the Christian/religious notion of food:   I
recently read a short book by cultural historian Garry Wills called "What
Jesus Meant." One chapter deals with "the heavenly banquet" and talks about
how the feast as a metaphor for love -- and why the miracles often end with
such abundance -- way too much wine or bread or fishes than is called for.

Hawai'i is also about to begin it's "Key Ingredients" state tour.  We are
publishing a book called "We Go Eat: A Mixed Plate of Hawai'i's Food
Cultures."  I'll send you a copy when it's published -- just in time for the
grant opening at the end of June, naturally.  You know how it is with
getting things done early.

Take care.

Bob

-- 
Robert G. Buss, Executive Director
Hawai'i Council for the Humanities
3599 Wai'alae Avenue, Room 23
Honolulu, HI  96816
Phone: (808) 732-5402, Fax: (808) 732-5432
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On 5/3/08 4:47 AM, "Mary Rizzo" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all. Here in NJ we're knee deep in Key Ingredients which starts at the
> end of the month! I've got the opportunity this fall to teach a class that
> I've taught before
> called Eat/Drink, Man/Woman: A Gendered History of Food at a local college.
> I'm thinking
> that I'd like to organize at least part of the syllabus around KI--the idea of
> regionalism in the
> US, immigration and technological change, etc... Also, since the last KI site
> in NJ is close
> to the college and will open right after the class ends, I'd like to come up
> with a project that the
> students would do that would tie in with the course.
> 
> Is there anyone out there that's connected a college course with Key
> Ingredients? If so, I'd love to hear your ideas about approach and what worked
> (and didn't!). 
> Please feel free to contact me at: [log in to unmask] .
> 
> Thanks!
> Mary Rizzo
> 
> Mary Rizzo, Ph.D.
> Associate Director
> New Jersey Council for the Humanities
> 28 W. State Street, 6th floor
> Trenton, NJ 08608
> Ph: 609-695-4838 
> In NJ: 888-394-6524
> Fax: 609-695-4929
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