We will be using the Posting and Commenting function of blogs@baruch throughout the semester, so you’ll have to familiarize yourself with how to do this:
- Scroll over “Blog” in the menu bar
- Scroll down to “Blog #1: due 9/9”
- Read the instructions (see below this list)
- Click “+ New” in your top toolbar to add a new post
- Answer the assignment in the text box
- On the right side of the screen, find the “Categories” tab. Check the box next to “Blog #1: due 9/9” in order to properly upload it.
- Click the “Publish” box to complete your post
Blog #1 Prompt:
À la Danny Licht’s excerpt we read in class, from Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again, write a recipe for something you like to cook/make. You can write this in a more traditional form, like a classic cookbook, or do something a little more strange and creative, like Licht does (the tone is more personal essay/poem than instruction manual). The choice is yours! You can include photos, quotes, quips, jokes, whatever! Make it YOU.
No matter how you write it, you are required to include at least one paragraph about, either:
- (1) where the recipe comes from, historically or culturally… What is the *objective* lineage of this dish or these food items? Is there some history around this food? Is there some social or cultural significance?
- (2) your personal relationship to this recipe/food item… What does this dish/these ingredients mean in your *subjective* life? Is there a personal history the food helped you deal with? How did the food nourish you? Is there some personal significance?
If you don’t cook, you can describe how to do something else that requires step-by-step instructions, and you still have to include the above paragraphs, somehow. Does the task have an objective history, or a subjective personal history?
Put your best foot forward… maybe we’ll make these into a class cookbook/guidebook?!?
PS – If you need some further inspiration, check out these recipes by poets.
