Food and Memory: Grinding Stones, a Year of Cooking, and Other Ways to Stay in Touch with Las Abuelas
The summer of 1976 began a year like no other: Professor Melero’s year of cooking food and stories with las abuelas (her grandmothers). Unable to enroll in school because of life’s circumstances, she spent a year walking behind la abuela Bernarda as she “cooked up” stories and interpreted dreams for the townsfolk. Or making cheese, butter, and tortillas with la abuela Isabel, charged with feeding all of the cousins who would show up at her door hungry after playing all day. In this lecture, Professor Melero will use fiction, recipes, photos and other writing to reach into memory and bring back las abuelas and the legacy that they leave in their grandchildren long after they have left us and we, ourselves, walk that beautiful path of grandmotherhood.
Pilar Melero, Professor, World Languages & Cultures
Monday, September 25, 2023, at 3:00 pm
Lectures will be held on Mondays at 3 p.m. in the Olm Fellowship Hall of Fairhaven Senior Services, 435 West Starin Road, Whitewater. They are open to the public. Registration is not required. Masks may be required in common areas at Fairhaven Senior Services. Please be prepared on arrival. Lectures will be recorded and posted to our website and YouTube channel. Videos of lectures in this series and in past series can be accessed for free any time after they are posted online.
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