{"id":10686,"date":"2015-05-26T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10686"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:43","slug":"carolinacooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10686","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Cooks, Carolina Eats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carolina Cooks, Carolina Eats Teaches Students about N.C. Food\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8iJQRp0FqVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The students chat a bit as they take their seats and prepare to learn, just as usual. But instead of pencils and notebooks, they grab forks and plates.<\/p>\n<p>American Studies 375 \u2013 better known as \u201cCarolina Cooks, Carolina Eats\u201d at UNC-Chapel Hill \u2013 isn\u2019t your normal class. Here, \u2018course\u2019 also means appetizers, entrees and dessert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood is a really critical area of study today,\u201d said Marcie Cohen Ferris, professor of American Studies and one of the course\u2019s instructors. \u201cIt\u2019s been growing in its importance for years.\u00a0We have to pay attention to how we\u2019re feeding ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gathering around the table is just one part of \u201cCarolina Cooks, Carolina Eats.\u201d\u00a0 The main goal of the class, offered by the Department of American Studies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/\">College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, is much broader.<\/p>\n<p>Ferris teamed up with her colleague Sharon Holland, professor of American Studies, to create a class designed to teach students the ins and outs of food in North Carolina. Instruction includes course lectures and readings, a host of experiences outside of the classroom and guest lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have chefs, farmers, academics \u2014 anyone involved in our local food system from the ground up come to talk to our students,\u201d Holland said.\u00a0 Last semester\u2019s speakers included North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Troxler and Crook\u2019s Corner Chef Bill Smith \u2014 who invited the students to his restaurant to sample some of the North Carolina cuisine they had been learning about in class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started off with some deviled egg appetizers,\u201d said Hannah Collier, a senior American Studies major.\u00a0 \u201cOur main course is cornbread and collard greens and salt-cured ham from eastern North Carolina, as well as soup beans, which are western North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students also spent an afternoon at Funny Girl Farm in Durham to learn more about agriculture from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>And in addition to their course work and in-the-field experiences, the students are taking part in a project that will endure long after they graduate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10471\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/800px-Filled_tomatoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10471\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/800px-Filled_tomatoes-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina has chosen &quot;Food for All: Local and Global Perspectives&quot; as the new academic theme. (photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/04\/800px-Filled_tomatoes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/04\/800px-Filled_tomatoes-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2015\/04\/800px-Filled_tomatoes.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolina has chosen &#8220;Food for All: Local and Global Perspectives&#8221; as the new academic theme. (photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for a new major work that\u2019s not just a cookbook, but it\u2019s really a social history that addresses all these many issues in which food brings us to the table to understand North Carolina culture and history,\u201d Ferris said.<\/p>\n<p>To gather the material for that project, the more than 70 students spread out across the state to record oral history interviews with farmers, fishermen, restaurant owners and more.\u00a0 The material will live online in the short term, but ultimately become part of a book that will benefit all North Carolinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people question the importance of food and why study it,\u201d said Bo McMillan, a junior Journalism major. \u201cAnd the fact that we\u2019re walking away with a legacy that talks about the history of our state and the culture of our state is something you can\u2019t attach a material importance to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Carolina Cooks, Carolina Eats class filled just a few minutes after it opened for its initial registration in the spring of 2015.\u00a0 The course will be offered again in spring, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis class has taught me how food isn\u2019t just sitting around the table and eating good things that taste good,\u201d Collier said.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s the story of what\u2019s on the plate and whose labor went into what\u2019s on the plate, and really just getting to connect on a deeper level to what I\u2019m eating every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Video and story by Rob Holliday, UNC Office of Communications and Public Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Studies 375 \u2013 better known as \u201cCarolina Cooks, Carolina Eats\u201d at UNC-Chapel Hill \u2013 isn\u2019t your normal class. 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