Samantha Sylvester
We started a new ritual in our class. It is a Monday morning tea tradition where someone in class prepares a cup of tea for everybody while the rest of the class settles in to the week with a piece of writing to read for the first half hour of class. This week we read a food essay by Scott Peacock called, "The Art of the Biscuit." This essay was very appealing to me because I just always thought of a biscuit as being the Pillsbury kind, but I was wrong. Now I know the importance of making them from scratch and exactly how to do it step-by-step. Reading this essay makes you think of how scrumptious a biscuit should taste. The ritual was a new experience. I can tell you this: It did help me wake up, clear my mind and start with a completely new attitude for the week instead of the usual lazy Monday I would have probably had. Tea and Moday mornings have changed forever.
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Tiffany Taylor
I really enjoyed my Edible English class. My teacher Mary Ann said we were going to have a ritual and we would be drinking tea. I was surprised because in Mary Ann's class last term, we often came in and wrote for the first 10 minutes. The idea of tea in the morning was great.
As we had our ritual, we also quietly read about biscuits and how this guy made them from scratch. The things he put in, like baking powder, for example, were also made from scratch. It made me think about how making food from scratch is more natural than buying box foods like biscuit mix.
I'll look forward to Monday mornings, sitting back, crossing my legs, having a cup of hot tea and reading another essay.
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