Escape the Ordinary....

I'm still a little unsure exactly how this is going to come together, but here are some basic thoughts about what I want to do with my Storybook: *I would like it to be an anthology of stories. I don't think that I could base my Storybook off food and make it one long story. I just don't have that skill set to make that work. Which I'm okay with. Short stories are more my thing. *I want to center this around Indian food. So I think some good sources will be Indian cookbooks and websites that talk about recipes and the history behind each dish/ingredient. I had also thought to talk about each ingredient individually and at the end put them all together to make one recipe? idk, that might not be as fun. However, I do know that a lot of the stories we've read so far for this class all mention food. Or at least in a good majority of them. It quick and in passing, but it's there. (It's amazing how you pick up on that stuff when you focus on it for a project. ...

This assignment was a bit difficult for me, as brainstorming for a project was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. It's hard to come up with story ideas for things you have not read or know nothing about. However, as I looked through the list of topics, there were a few that caught my eyes. 1. Food - The first one that caught my eye was food. While I was browsing the storybooks for the first week of assignments, I saw another student that had done their project on food. This was really intriguing to me. I love trying new foods and knowing how those foods related to culture and tradition. This would be a topic that would interest me throughout the semester and something I feel might be easy to write about. I'm not sure how I would tie everything in just yet, but this is definitely the front runner for my project. I would most likely include recipes and pictures of the cuisine, but would want to relate it back to the stories we are reading for the class. This artic...