Experience CALS 2022: Cooking with the Hokies the Celebration of Agriculture, Food and Culture

“Food is not just about fueling the body. It’s about giving and taking and sharing and nurturing and communicating. When you share food with someone, especially with people who are unlike you culturally, you gain a greater understanding of them and yourself. It’s not just a meal. It’s communion with your fellow citizens stuck together on this big ball of dust floating in the universe”. Anthony Bourdain. Food and culture are highly integrated in every global society. Food is the central core of every celebration: birth, wedding, major calendar events (New Year), and religious holidays. Thus, in the food lab, all recipes across the grain and horticultural crops discussed in class will be used to make festival foods (foods prepared during major holidays and celebrations).