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The Philosophy of Food | Wednesday, 3rd Period
There was no food on the table today.
"First," Hannibal began, "let me say that as we are now halfway through this session, I encourage you to discuss your project with me now or during office hours, as we will need to schedule time." He eyed them all.
"Now, so far we have been mostly discussing how we conceive of and address food because of other influences such as culture." He settled in his chair. "Now, we turn that around. How is food itself an influence?" He raised an eyebrow at the students.
"The types and amounts of food available to a culture, the sorts of foods that are valued as delicacies and the sorts that are discarded - these all can help to dictate the development of society, not to mention arts and leisure activities. We still evaluate earlier cultures on the basis of whether they were hunter-gatherers or agricultural, yes?
"On a note closer to home for most of you, how much a part of your routine is food? When you go to the movies, what food do you expect? The picnic to welcome us here - what would you have thought if it didn't include food? What about the fact that I've set out no food today - have you come to expect it? How has that expectation altered your behavior and thinking?"
He sat back and waited.
"First," Hannibal began, "let me say that as we are now halfway through this session, I encourage you to discuss your project with me now or during office hours, as we will need to schedule time." He eyed them all.
"Now, so far we have been mostly discussing how we conceive of and address food because of other influences such as culture." He settled in his chair. "Now, we turn that around. How is food itself an influence?" He raised an eyebrow at the students.
"The types and amounts of food available to a culture, the sorts of foods that are valued as delicacies and the sorts that are discarded - these all can help to dictate the development of society, not to mention arts and leisure activities. We still evaluate earlier cultures on the basis of whether they were hunter-gatherers or agricultural, yes?
"On a note closer to home for most of you, how much a part of your routine is food? When you go to the movies, what food do you expect? The picnic to welcome us here - what would you have thought if it didn't include food? What about the fact that I've set out no food today - have you come to expect it? How has that expectation altered your behavior and thinking?"
He sat back and waited.
Re: Talk about your class project!
Re: Talk about your class project!
He pulled a syllabus (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y9z4RmI_n1lbplbJ93bo5eLAF4xNkP2bdcErAw3w1iY/edit#) out of his bag and handed it to her. "The project is as it says there - I will expect you to teach me to make some food of significance to your upbringing, and to explain that significance and the reasons for choices you make in preparing it." Or you could write an essay if you must, but he wasn't going to encourage it.
"Unless it should come to light that you intentionally turned into a plant in order to avoid classes, I suppose we will consider these excused absences, and I will judge your class participation on the basis of the classes remaining. If you wish to meet independently to make up for some of the missing time, we can also arrange that."