Food is more than just food or something to satisfy our nutritional needs. .Food brings with it feelings, stories, relationships, family, culture and community.
Dr. Henry Yu of the UBC History Department has worked with Chinese Canadian and Musqueam communities to elicit and document some of our community food stories. We will be reading one or two of them from this great book, Eating Stories.
I attended a conference workshop with Italian community educator Salvi Greco, who works with immigrant and refugee community in Italy and in promoting multicultural contact and understanding (in a country that is really very new to large-scale immigration!) Salvi and his colleagues have piloted a kind of activity he calls a Cook Telling Workshop, and we have experimented with it here in the Orchard Garden too. We'll be doing a version of this on Saturday, the last day of our Summer Institute.
Dr. Henry Yu of the UBC History Department has worked with Chinese Canadian and Musqueam communities to elicit and document some of our community food stories. We will be reading one or two of them from this great book, Eating Stories.
I attended a conference workshop with Italian community educator Salvi Greco, who works with immigrant and refugee community in Italy and in promoting multicultural contact and understanding (in a country that is really very new to large-scale immigration!) Salvi and his colleagues have piloted a kind of activity he calls a Cook Telling Workshop, and we have experimented with it here in the Orchard Garden too. We'll be doing a version of this on Saturday, the last day of our Summer Institute.
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