The Power of Food Writing: Workshop [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | 5-weeks | Wednesdays May 7-June 4 | 7:00-9:00 PM | In-Person, 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
"The simple taste of a madeleine can evoke such pleasure and nostalgia that it can conjure an entire 500 page novel for Marcel Proust. A cookbook, such as Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, can inspire a daily writing ritual in a blog-turned-movie that launches an entire career. Food writing contains multitudes. It can serve as a nostalgic tale that connects a community to its legacy. It can offer artistic critique or a deep anthropological study. It can even be a powerful, active form of protest. It has the power to divide as much as it does to unite. This writing workshop is for anyone interested in combining prose with the nuanced study of foodways. We’ll learn about a variety of forms of food writing — memoir, essay with recipes, journalism, criticism and more. Our readings will explore and interrogate the works of legendary food writers Edna Lewis and Anthony Bourdain to contemporaries such as Mayukh Sen and Alicia Kennedy. We’ll discuss how place and sociopolitical issues from Ancient Greece to the modern Global South have been understood and tackled through the study of food and writing about it. As Marcie Cohen Ferris once wrote in The Edible South: “food provides access to this place of contradictions, where a cuisine of memory, the region’s volatile racial past, and its transformative future lies waiting to be tasted.” Students will have the opportunity to write and workshop their own food writing in class, with weekly prompts.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | 5-weeks | Wednesdays May 7-June 4 | 7:00-9:00 PM | In-Person, 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
"The simple taste of a madeleine can evoke such pleasure and nostalgia that it can conjure an entire 500 page novel for Marcel Proust. A cookbook, such as Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, can inspire a daily writing ritual in a blog-turned-movie that launches an entire career. Food writing contains multitudes. It can serve as a nostalgic tale that connects a community to its legacy. It can offer artistic critique or a deep anthropological study. It can even be a powerful, active form of protest. It has the power to divide as much as it does to unite. This writing workshop is for anyone interested in combining prose with the nuanced study of foodways. We’ll learn about a variety of forms of food writing — memoir, essay with recipes, journalism, criticism and more. Our readings will explore and interrogate the works of legendary food writers Edna Lewis and Anthony Bourdain to contemporaries such as Mayukh Sen and Alicia Kennedy. We’ll discuss how place and sociopolitical issues from Ancient Greece to the modern Global South have been understood and tackled through the study of food and writing about it. As Marcie Cohen Ferris once wrote in The Edible South: “food provides access to this place of contradictions, where a cuisine of memory, the region’s volatile racial past, and its transformative future lies waiting to be tasted.” Students will have the opportunity to write and workshop their own food writing in class, with weekly prompts.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | 5-weeks | Wednesdays May 7-June 4 | 7:00-9:00 PM | In-Person, 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
"The simple taste of a madeleine can evoke such pleasure and nostalgia that it can conjure an entire 500 page novel for Marcel Proust. A cookbook, such as Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, can inspire a daily writing ritual in a blog-turned-movie that launches an entire career. Food writing contains multitudes. It can serve as a nostalgic tale that connects a community to its legacy. It can offer artistic critique or a deep anthropological study. It can even be a powerful, active form of protest. It has the power to divide as much as it does to unite. This writing workshop is for anyone interested in combining prose with the nuanced study of foodways. We’ll learn about a variety of forms of food writing — memoir, essay with recipes, journalism, criticism and more. Our readings will explore and interrogate the works of legendary food writers Edna Lewis and Anthony Bourdain to contemporaries such as Mayukh Sen and Alicia Kennedy. We’ll discuss how place and sociopolitical issues from Ancient Greece to the modern Global South have been understood and tackled through the study of food and writing about it. As Marcie Cohen Ferris once wrote in The Edible South: “food provides access to this place of contradictions, where a cuisine of memory, the region’s volatile racial past, and its transformative future lies waiting to be tasted.” Students will have the opportunity to write and workshop their own food writing in class, with weekly prompts.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.