Hungry Hungry Hoos Around the World

Please post your experiences here as you journey abroad and around this summer--the adventures of the Hungry Hungry Hoos continue...

And now, to rest

Stay Home

I will wait here in the fields
to see how well the rain
brings on the grass.
In the labor of the fields
longer than a man's life
I am at home. Don't come with me.
You stay home too.

-Wendell Berry

How does Berry construct the argument that eating is an agricultural act? What is the opposite of pleasure in eating? How is this connected with the twin serpents?

Gorgeous gets away with it

Think about the serpent imagery at the end of this work.

How is the imagery related to the Mayan Vision Serpent?

Is the narrator on a vision quest?

Is Olivia on a vision quest?

Wooly Bulli

How is the El Bulli cookbook different than Julia Child's? Do you think that changes the sorts of cooks interested in cooking from it, or perhaps the tone of their writing? Think about the materials and gadgets necessary for this type of cooking and what this requires of the cook and the consumer.

To Market, To Market

See all of the pictures (with captions) from our City Market trip here. We tasted sorrel, yogurt crackers, spring garlic, and phoenix mushrooms. And we met the Goat Cheese Man.

Delicately

Acknowledge and respond to Barthes--list at least one reason forks are instead the superior utensil.

And, how does an unhealthy attraction to knives help the other argument? Be ready to discuss fetishization.

'Cause you gotta have faith, faith, faith

What is the stable context/status quo in each piece? What are the conceptual claims? What are the pragmatic claims?