The Food for Thought Project
The Food for Thought Project
New College student Rochelle Currey
and Professor Eirini Poimenidou are inviting the New College community
to join them in celebrating cultural and ethnic diversity on Campus.
What we have in mind are monthly dinner parties that focus and celebrate
the cultural and culinary delights of a particular country or geographic
region or ethnic group. Our motivation is to:
We know you like the idea. So
please help us bring it to life. What we need are the following:
Hosts: Faculty, staff or students that are willing to host a dinner at their home. Volunteering to host a dinner party will also involve the use of your kitchen for food preparation on the day of the party. Hosts will not be responsible for cleaning. If you are willing to be a host, please get in touch with Eiriin and Rochelle.
Cooks: If you can cook and you are interested in representing you culture or ethnicity please get in touch with Eirini and Rochelle. We encourage groups of people that are willing to cook together to contact us as a group.
Donations: We expect the dinner party series to become self-sustaining by requesting that guests make a nominal donation ($5 faculty/staff, $3 students per dinner) to cover the cost of the ingredients.
We are greatful to Dean Bassis, Dr. Sherman (Chair of natural Sciences) and Mark Blaweiss (Student Affairs Office) for partly subsidizing this initiative.
People attending the dinners
will have to RSVP through the "Food for Thought" web page by the last Wednesday
preceeding the day of the party, to help the cooks plan their dinners.
Following our highly successful Jamaican Dinner Party we are now announcing the second dinner party to take place on
Saturday April 22nd, 2000 after 7pm
for a celebration of the
Bulgarian Food and Culture
Host