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By 2016, five of the six small programs had become departments—with greater security than programs—and the sixth was in the process of becoming one too. The women who organized to improve the situation of women in science on campus had received two grants for promoting the advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (or STEM), with an emphasis on understanding some of the challenges faced by Latina faculty in particular.
The lesson I take from this is that forming and organizing as collegial communities on campus can accomplish a great deal and that communities which involve the often-invisible labor of “working on the relationship” are especially powerful. This labor includes getting folks together, listening to people’s needs, building face-to-face relationships of friendship, love, and trust, deflecting conflict, mending fences, hosting dinners, engaging in playfulness and pleasure, and, in general, tending to people’s hunger for connection and community.
In academic and other work cultures, where we are frequently beset by isolation, competition, lack of solidarity, and overwork, our happiness and quality of life, not to mention our struggles for social justice, may depend not just on forming communities but on persisting in the sometimes hard, but often joyful, labor of making them work.
Recipe Index
Baked Tortilla Chips
Blue Corn Atole
Blue Corn Blini with Smoked Salmon
Blue Corn Bread
Candy Corn Halloween Cupcakes
Colombian Corn and Cheese Arepas
Corn and Cherry Scones
Corn Bread with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese
Corn Muffins
Corn Pudding
Corn with Pine Nuts
Gluten-Free Cornmeal Pancakes with Candied Kumquats
Oven Polenta, Tomato Fondue, and Sonoma Jack Cheese
Red Enchiladas
Savory Corn Bread Muffins with Jalapeños and Corn
Southern Corn Bread
Tess’s Genetically Engineered Corn Bread
Wild Georgia Shrimp and Grits
Credits
Recipe for Corn and Cherry Scones adapted by permission of the Cheese Board Collective at http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/. From The Cheese Board Collective Works (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2003.)
Recipe for Oven Polenta, Tomato Fondue, and Sonoma Jack Cheese adapted by permission of Gary Danko, Chef, Restaurant Gary Danko. From Lee Bailey’s California Wine Country Cooking (New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1991).
Recipe for Southern Corn Bread with kind permission of Mattie Smith Nettles.
Recipe for Red Enchiladas adapted by permission of Mely Martinez at Mexico in My Kitchen http://www.mexicoinmykitchen.com/2013/05/red-enchiladas-sauce-recipereceta.html.
Recipe for Baked Tortilla Chips by permission of www.Allrecipes.com. Recipe submitted by Michele O’Sullivan.
Recipe for Corn with Pine Nuts adapted by permission of Annie Taylor Chen at VeganAnn http://veganann.com/corn-with-pine-nuts/.
Recipe for Wild Georgia Shrimp and Grits adapted by permission of Ron Eyester.
Recipe for Corn Muffins adapted by permission of Mel at Mel’s Kitchen Cafe at http://www.melskitchencafe.com/cornbread-muffins/.
Recipe for Gluten-Free Cornmeal Pancakes with Candied Kumquats adapted by permission of Rachel Leung and Rachel Chew at http://www.radiantrachels.com/gluten-free-cornmeal-pancakes-with-candied-kumquats/#comment.
Recipe for Blue Corn Blini with Smoked Salmon adapted by permission of Taralee Lathrop at My Kitchen Ink http://www.mykitchenink.com/recipes/auth_1/recipe/75/.
Recipe for Colombian Corn and Cheese Arepas adapted by permission of Julia Moskin. From http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015180-colombian-corn-and-cheese-arepas.
Recipe for Candy Corn Halloween Cupcakes adapted by permission of Holly and Katie at The SemiSweet Sisters http://www.thesemisweetsisters.com/2014/09/19/candy-corn-halloween-cupcakes/.
Recipe for Corn Bread with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese adapted by permission of Deb Perelman at Smitten Kitchen http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/03/caramelized-onion-and-goat-cheese-cornbread/. Corn Bread with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese was originally published on SmittenKitchen.com. All content and photos © 2006–2016 Smitten Kitchen LLC.
Recipe for Tess’s Genetically Engineered Corn Bread adapted by permission of Pam Ronald, professor in the Genome Center and the Department of Plant Pathology, founding faculty director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy (IFAL) at UC Davis, and director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California. From Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak. (Oxford University Press, 2008.)
Recipe for Blue Corn Atole adapted from The Cooking Post: Traditional Native American Recipes at http://www.cookingpost.com/recipes.htm.
Recipe for Blue Corn Bread adapted from The Cooking Post: Traditional Native American Recipes at http://www.cookingpost.com/recipes.htm.
Recipe for Savory Corn Bread Muffins with Jalapeños and Corn adapted by permission of Martha Rose Shulman. From http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013497-savory-cornbread-muffins-with-jalapenos-and-corn.
Recipe for Corn Pudding adapted from Epicurious at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sweet-corn-pudding-102683.
Acknowledgments
Writing is at once lonely and communal, and the more communal it is, the better it feels. Many people have read pieces and/or early drafts of this work, and while they’re not responsible for the final outcome, they helped me shape Oink, my first piece of fiction. I want to thank the following for being part of the village that guided and supported me: Elizabeth Kracht, Brooke Warner (my wonderful publisher), Mardi Louisell, Kay Trimberger, Tina Gillis, Wendy Martin, Claire Kahane, Susan Kaiser, Anna Kuhn, Pam Ronald, Diane Fowlkes, Linda Joy Myers, and anonymous press reviewers. A special thanks to my husband, Bill Tilden, for always being my first reader and critic and for his patience and loving support. I am also grateful to the editors and authors involved with She Writes Press and for the savvy and supportive community they and we have created.
About the Author
J. L. Newton is Professor Emerita at a land grant university. She is at work on another mystery and lives in California where she tends her garden and cooks for family and friends. You can contact her at jnjocals@gmail.com, www.facebook.com/ TastingHomeComingOfAgeInTheKitchen, at judithnewton. com, and on Twitter: @jnewton70.
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