This semester our discussions have been made extra delicious by intrepid McKelvys cooking up family recipes to share with the crew. This task is daunting not just because of the fickle taste buds of a big group– our discussion leaders have to shop AND clean up after cooking up dinner for up to 40 hungry guests in a basement kitchen/laundry room that is less than spectacular.
Danyelle and Kayani made us a Caribbean feast drawing on their Jamaican and Guyanese heritage– I still dream about their jerk chicken! Mara made us fantastic white chicken chili using her mom’s recipe. Note the proud/tired chefs once the food is laid out on the table!
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Ashley taught us all how to make pillowy homemade gnocchi from her grandmother’s recipe, on grandma’s actual birthday. Special assist from Josh for last minute grocery run for more pans for about 400 hand-rolled gnocchi! Ashley and Erin closed out the semester’s discussions to a packed house that considered “traditions”– a fitting end to the semester’s theme of “Time and Traditions.” For those keeping score, below were our discussion topics in Fall 2011. Assorted discussion and gnocchi shots taken by me and Erin below.
9/11- Lexi and Tania: “Neuroscience and Law”
9/18- Kara: “Time Perception”
9/25- Daniel: “The History of Global Communication”
10/2- Megan: “History and Philosophy of Science”
10/16- Liang and Kyle: “The Existence of God: Historical, Social, Political, and Philosophical Implications”
10/23- Maggie: “Nostalgia for the 1960s”
10/30- Canceled due to power outage!
11/6- Danyelle and Kayani: “How Race and Class Affect Our Generation”
11/13- Christa, Thalia, Mara: “The Social Impact of American Music in the 1920s, 1960s, and Today”
11/20- Tia and Hannah: “Capital Punishment”
12/4- Erin and Ashley: “Traditions”
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