Permits have been received. Our team is officially building a Tandyr Oven on Guilford’s campus by the farm. We’re excited for the potential of this project not only in the bounds of our class but for its future application as well. We hope, of the few things that Guilford can do splendidly, that one of them is making naan bread in our oven. Thoughts president Fernandes?
At this point in time, we are looking to create our whole meal using the oven. Currently on the table are the following dishes: Naan bread, Polu (Lamb Pilaf), Lamb Kebabs and Tea. We’ll be cooking this meal next weekend and using it as the photograph for our canvas online. The photo will include all elements of the meal and focus in on each to highlight the history or specifics about the particular dish.
Speaking of history, Eric recently unleashed an infamous map test upon us in which we were tasked with memorizing the political, geographic and historical landscapes of central Asia. Despite the strenuous nature of the assignment and the entire notebook of redrawn maps I now own, the test helped me better place our project work as a whole. Knowing the geography of a location, and establishing a sense of place is (not so surprisingly) valuable when creating story maps of food and spices. Connecting our ideas to a place and knowing the geography, cities and other landmasses around it adds a new dimension to research that is often ignored when looking for specifics.
Specifics are what we’ve been looking at so far. And I’m particularly excited about figuring out how to display our meal, the photographic elements and the video that we’ll compile of our experience. This is pretty much the center piece in our prezi presentation, so no pressure. I’m quite thrilled at how our project is coming along and can’t wait to present consume it. I am already feeling slightly disappointed that the final project is due in less than three weeks. While we’ve done immense amounts of research and narrowing down of topics and group meetings, I really think this could have been a year-long course with the first semester focused on research, the silk road and its geography while the second half would be solely a project based class. It’s just really hard to do justice to the silk road…