Note: "suggested further readings" are in our course packet. They will not be on the final exam, but you may elect to refer to them on the exam if they seem useful and you may write about them in your assigned essays for the course. If time allows, we will discuss them in class.

Week 1

W Sep 25 Introduction to the course

F Sep 27 Prepare for class by reading Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast" in the course packet. In class, view Babette's Feast. We will discuss both versions in class Monday, along with Monday's assigned reading.

Week 2

M Sep 30 Sherwood Anderson, "Death in the Woods." Suggested further reading: Franz
Kafka, "A Hunger Artist."

W Oct 2 Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal;" Meridel LeSueur, "Women on the
Breadlines"

F Oct 4 Sharon Olds, "Photograph of the Girl;" Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in
California;" Lorna Crozier, "Carrots," "Potatoes," "Peas," and "Love Poem, After
Rain;" Galway Kinnell, "Blackberry Eating"

Week 3

M Oct 7 Marilyn Dumont, "The White Judges" and "Still Unsaved Soul;" Garrett Hongo,
"Who among you Knows the Essence of Garlic?"; Janice Mirikitani, "Recipe;" Alyssa Von Lehman, "The Wedding Strawberries." Suggested further readings: Gertrude Stein, from Tender Buttons; Garrett Hongo, "Stepchild"

W Oct 9 Li-Young Lee, "The Weight of Sweetness," "From Blossoms," "Eating Alone,"
and "Eating Together;" Pat Lowther, "Salt Wafers;" Nancy Pagh, "Bait;" Maurice
Kenny, "Wild Strawberry"

F Oct 11 Vi Plotnikoff, "Head Cook at Weddings and Funerals"

Week 4

M Oct 14 Ruth Reichl, "The Queen of Mold" and "Grandmothers;" Audre Lorde, from Zami

Assignment 1 due in Nancy's office (HU 312)
Tuesday, October 15, by 5 p.m. (slide under door)

W Oct 16 Shani Mootoo, "Out on Main Street"

F Oct 18 Langston Hughes, "I, Too" and "Harlem;" Angela Jackson, "Grits" and "Greens;"
June Jordan, "Free Flight;" Alice Walker, "Nineteen Fifty-Five."

Week 5

M Oct 21 Jimmy Baca, "Green Chile;" Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Latin Deli;" begin the novel
Like Water for Chocolate (pages 1-40)

W Oct 23 Laura Esquirel, Like Water for Chocolate (pages 41-119)

F Oct 25 No class meeting

Week 6

M Oct 28 finish novel before class meeting

W Oct 30 Terry Glavin, "Oolichans." Pick up Dauenhauer handout in class (read for
Monday)

F Nov 1 University of British Columbia Professor Laurie Ricou visits to discuss food
imagery in Pacific Northwest literature; Assignment 2 due at the start of class.

Week 7

M Nov 4 Shigeru Kayano, "Traditional Ainu Life" and "The Fox's Plea;" Elizabeth Woody,
"TWANAT;" Nora Marks Dauenhauer (handout), "How To Make Good Baked
Salmon from the River;" Sherman Alexie, "The Powwow at the End of the
World"

W Nov 6 Lee Maracle, "Where Love Winds Itself around Desire." Lee Maracle, WWU
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture, is tentatively scheduled to
discuss her work with the class

F Nov 8 Hugh Brody, "Meat"

Week 8

M Nov 11 Veterans' Day/Remembrance Day: no class meeting

W Nov 13 Amy Tan, "Four Directions;" Madeleine Thien, "Simple Recipes." Suggested
further reading: Amy Tan, "Rice Husband"

F Nov 15 Pam Houston, "Out of Habit, I Start Apologizing" and Evelyn Lau, "An Insatiable
Emptiness"

Week 9

M Nov 18 Virginia Hamilton Adair, "Cutting the Cake;" Joy Harjo, "Perhaps the World
Ends Here;" Irena Klepfisz, "A Few Words in the Mother Tongue;" Marge Piercy,
"What's That Smell in the Kitchen?"; Paule Marshall, from The Poets in the
Kitchen

W Nov 20 Anthony Bourdain, first three chapters from Kitchen Confidential and look
closely at the jacket cover pictured. Pick up Capote handout (read for Monday).

F Nov 22 Tobias Wolff, "Hunters in the Snow;" Philip Jeyaretnam, "Making Coffee"

Week 10

M Nov 25 O. Henry, "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen;" Truman Capote (handout), "A Christmas Memory"

W Nov 27 Thanksgiving: no class meeting

F Nov 29 Thanksgiving: no class meeting

Week 11

M Dec 2 Jim Crace, all selections anthologized from The Devil's Larder

W Dec 4 Raymond Carver, "A Small, Good Thing;" potluck to end class?

F Dec 6 Students evaluate the course; Assignment 3 due at beginning of class

FINAL 3:30-5:30 Wednesday, December 11