Chicago, My Dinner Table
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Authors
Posner, Jonathan
Issue Date
2011
Type
Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
Over the past four years, food has occupied more of my mind, and has been a larger
force in defining myself than anything else. I forget now what moment it was, or if there was a
moment at all, that shifted my life aspirations from teaching high school English to a life
devoted to food, but that shift happened nonetheless. In the following pages, I explore less the
shift itself, but where it has led me: To often misogynistic, Spanish-speaking, sweaty, pork-ridden
Chicago kitchens.
I initially conceived of this project as the beginning of a larger body of work something
akin to a book, in the vein of so many other culinary memoirists like Anthony
Bourdain. I expected to write 5 chapters on various·topics and issues I observed during my time
at Province, a restaurant in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood west of Downtown. I first
worked at Province upon my return from studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. With a
couple months to kill before returning to Kalamazoo College for the spring quarter of classes, I
staved off boredom by leaving my sleepy suburb of Northbrook, Illinois, and cooking for free
essentially every night.
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viii, 20 p.
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