22 thoughts on “Announcing the Ordinary Times Food Symposium

  1. I am so happy with this symposium idea that I find difficulty putting together enough words to express it.

    The classic definition of the word symposium was an eating and drinking party where people exchange ideas.

    My challenge will be restraining myself from offering about 600 posts and letting enough other voices be heard that it becomes a true symposium.Report

      1. I loved grits when I was young, but don’t really like them much anymore. However, shrimp and grits isn’t really grits. With the sauce, it becomes something that transcends grits.

        Add sweet tea, and it’s the perfect lunch.Report

      2. @will-truman

        The Contracts lecture for Barbri was a guy named David Epstein. The guy had the worlds biggest Southern accent. He liked to tell Jewish jokes as part of his lectures. He told a story about how once in Los Angeles he was accused of being anti-Semitic and his retort was “I know I sound like a gubber but my name is David Epstein…..”

        He gave a lot of examples using failure to deliver kosher grits during Hannukah

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._EpsteinReport

      3. I agree that cheese grits are the way to go. That’s always my complaint in South Carolina. They cook these amazing shrimp and throw them on top of plain grits. If you order grits here in Ky they are going to be packed with cheese and probably garnished with something delicious like bacon or oven-roasted peppers.Report

      4. @mike-dwyer

        Regarding cheese grits and shrimp and grits. Any decent southerner is going to put cheese in his shrimp and grits. Preferably a nice smoked gouda! I feel your pain. But I’ve had great shrimp and grits in SC and there has been cheese……Report

    1. Nah, “Tampopo” is the ultimate foodie movie – the themes and characters from a Western, an appreciation for really good ramen, and vignettes that manage to both be universally touching and poke Japanese culture in places that it really could use poking.Report

  2. Tod,

    This:

    “Without food, a table is but a place of convenient storage, a suspended plane where we temporarily discard books, car keys and the daily mail. But set food on that same table, and it magically becomes a place where we raise families, solve the World’s Problems over wine, celebrate, mourn, break hearts and fall in love.”

    I actually choked up a little bit reading that. Absolutely beautiful. Awesome intro to the symposium.Report

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