Soup & Hope Speaker Series Warms Cornellians Throughout Winter Months

Soup and encouragement fill Thursday afternoons at Sage Chapel during the Soup & Hope speaker series. During the cold Ithaca winter, Janet Shortall, Soup & Hope founder and associate dean of students hoped to foster community through warm conversation over warm food. Sponsored by Cornell’s Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making, Human Resources, Cornell Health and Cornell Catering, the series takes place every other Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at Sage Chapel, running from Jan. 23 to March 27. Open to the public with no registration required, attendees can enjoy a bowl of soup provided by Cornell Catering while listening to inspiring personal stories from selected speakers.

Quarantine Cooking Across the Country

When the Food System Fails — Minneapolis, Minn. My mother is a stubborn and hard working Lutheran, born and raised in Minnesota. Growing up, her mother, grandmother and aunts would always be making buns, biscuits, cookies, cakes, pies, loaves and hot dishes of all kinds. These were staples, found fresh or frozen at all times, because they make you feel at home. These are foods you make to endure stressful times, and no time in my life has been as tough as right now.

Food Ethics | Beans and Bread

The 40-acre farm in Hawai’i which I called home for the fall of 2017 was riddled with homemade signage. Pieces of wood were painted to remind that there was  “no toilet” and to “use tree! ,” to teach you “proper poopage” in a compost toilet and to tell you to “Get naked!” in the shower. There was also less informational signage that reinforced some important life lessons like “be with the flow” and to “eat your food like water, and your water like air.” One of these signs hung in a particularly prominent place next to the picnic tables at which we ate. It was framed by bunches of ripening plantains and written with a washed out orange and pink paint.