hold up.

So one thing that I think college students miss out on, as part of their endeavors to create and reify their new burgeoning communities, is the family dinner. While I recall a great many tense and uncomfortable family dinners, I also recall dinner as a time (much like Shabbat) to set aside the hustle and bustle of the day, and listen to what the community had to say. It was a space out of time, and a time in which we could be with one another, and be with great food.

It was in the spirit of that belief that today I had the first in what I hope will be a series of 'family dinners' in CRC. Well, that and I wanted to prove that kosher food isn't all bad.

But a brief aside: members of CRC. If you weren't "invited" to dinner, it doesn't mean that you're despised, or less than. It means that someone of limited means cooked dinner for a few people s/he wanted to get to know, where the seeds were planted for a more complex community. And somehow, I feel strongly that castigating said chef is not going to help you to succeed in being invited to participate in the next such event.

So this is what dinner looked like:


It was teriyaki steak, broccoli, carrots, rolls, and quite a lot of rootbeers. And fun conversation.

It was really all about the root beer (I'm a lover of the drink, and I'm on a quest for the best tasting one).

What I think is the most important thing to be taken from this experiment (which morphed into a semi-commitment from 6 people to make a weekly dinner) is that ResLife might find a more "coalesced" campus (which seems to be something they're working towards) by encouraging more small groups to make dinner at home instead of eating in a dining hall (at least once a week). Of course, by encourage I mean subsidize.

After all, that steak was expensive.

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