Are You What You Eat? Exploring Food and Identity Through Creative Writing with Deborah Adelman

Food both shapes and reflects our personal, cultural, and social identity. Food connects us to land and the natural world, to animals, farmers, workers, and community. Our food choices say a lot about who we are. To participatte in this session, please bring a favorite recipe or description of a meal or food item that represents you. We will read short passages and poems by various authors to see how they have explored this same topic. Prompts will guide you to consider where your food comes from and why you chose it. Then you will write your own text, in a genre you choose — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, flash fiction, or even develop a script — to complete our time together as writers and learners.

Class meets in person Saturday, May 16, 9 am – noon.

Class size: Minimum 5, maximum 15.

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Teaching Artist: Deborah Adelman has published her fiction, nonfiction and poetry in Memoir Magazine, Lilith, Jewish Currents, Rockvale Review, Cream City Review, Verse Virtual and Dissident Voice, among others. She is Professor Emerita of English and Film Studies at College of DuPage and lives and writes in Oak Park Illinois.