Well, @writingproject, This Summer I Have a Culinary Artist/English Educator Working on a Food Literature Demonstration. Yum, Um, I'm Just Sayin'

I thought about stopping to get bagels. Last week I brought scones. This week, another brought bagels, and Alisha arrived and asked, "Anyone interested in red-velvet cake cheese cake cups, I have a tray left over from the weekend?"

All hands went up. What are those? Well, as we did our morning writes our spoons were in cups of rich deliciousness. We kicked off the day with gourmet flavors, and all of us stared into space for the rest of the day. The tastes. The satiation.

Then I sat with Alisha to work through her teacher demonstration (WOW) and I realize this Thursday we are going to get a celebration of multicultural flavors, as her presentation is loaded with things to try, ideas to contemplate, and readings to explore - all on food literacy. I've not seen a demonstration quite like this and I'm excited to see how it goes (and hope it finds its way into NCTE in the near future).

Meanwhile, I can tell you this is totally in my taste. Boom.

Today, we're in total workshop mode as we maneuver the work from me, my co-director, and special guests to the work of teachers as they create their own demonstrations to bring back to their schools and districts. It takes a special educator to find the National Writing Project and every summer I'm beyond impressed by all the hard work the teachers put forth. I'm not disappointed again this year.

Nor am I hungry. 

I can get used to this.