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Food As Memoir: Telling Your Story Through Recipes

Food has a way of transporting us back to a place or to the company of someone special, reminding us who we are and where we are from. Food triggers memories of family, friends, and moments in our past.

Bring your best - or worst - food memories and even those kitchen mishaps with you to class. We will discuss recipes, books, movies, and of course, cookbooks, and what we can do to savor the food experiences that we have had. Come prepared to share your stories and to laugh.

Each student will create a short cookbook of recipes that have a special place in your memory, which will then go into a class cookbook. The cookbook project will be a showcase of your collective families, friends, countries, cultures and places that influence you.

SCHEDULE
(Times below listed in Eastern Time.
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Wednesday, Jan 17 6:30pm–8:30pm (mandatory online orientation)
Saturday-Sunday, Jan 20-21 10am - 5pm (live in Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Jan 24 6:30pm-8:30pm (online final project review)

You will meet live in Washington, DC indoors. This is not a travel class. In order to creat the class book, students will have a pre-assignment, independent coursework and final assignment. Credit for J-1 visa students is 36 hours. Students earning J-1 visa credit must attend all sessions and complete all homework.

Students receive an email with a pre-assignment and log-on information for orientation one week before the orientation meeting.

Students are required to be present during all class sessions.

If you have any questions, please email us at aupair@bmcc.cuny.edu.

Andrea Seiger, author of 111 Places in Washington, DC You Must Not Miss, is an educator and world traveler who has lived in Washington DC for 31 years. She has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has traveled thousands of miles on the Mayan Route of Mexico. Ms. Seiger loves to road trip around the Mid-Atlantic US and beyond.

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