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A Soup Recipe: Questions and Interpretive Instructions for a Present Process and Future Meal

July 23, 2020

By Emily Hilliard and Rebecca Wright

In several springtimes past, we taught together and ran the communal kitchen at a literature program in the woods of New England. Every night, with a group of college students, we cooked for sixty students and teachers. This interpretive recipe is based on that experience: teaching students cooking skills that they could apply not just to that night’s meal, but to all future meals. The hope was that cooking might become for them what it is for us: a mindful and sensory process for the cook that engenders a future offering for a collective; the power to make something that was not there before, and to share it.

Read on via Ecotone

In Food, Creative Writing Tags foodways, food, Ecotone
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The Food We Eat, The Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables

November 1, 2019

Hilliard’s chapter “‘The Reason We Make These Deep Fat-Fried Treats:’ In Conversation with the Rosettes of Helvetia, West Virginia,” is included in the new collection, The Food We Eat, The Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables, edited by Elizabeth Engelhardt and Lora Smith and published by Ohio University Press.

Related Events:

Keynote with Courtney Balestier, Emily Hilliard, and Lora Smith at Hindman Settlement School’s Dumplin’s and Dancin’, Hindman, KY, November 2, 2019

Reading and Dinner at Holly Hill Inn with Elizabeth Engelhardt, Robert Gipe, Emily Hilliard, and Lora Smith, Midway, KY, November 15, 2019

Reading at Taylor Books with Courtney Balestier, Emily Hilliard, and Lora Smith , Charleston, WV, December 5, 2019

Related Media:

Elizabeth Engelhardt and Emily Hilliard on WEKU’s Eastern Standard

Order a copy via Ohio University Press

In Folklore, Academic, Books, Food, West Virginia, Ohio University Press Tags books, foodways, food, Appalachia, West Virginia, Helvetia

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