2016-464-E Arts - Eno Publishers - Spring 2016 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:A7B705FD-OEDD-4AC5-8764-8905D8B8991 F a lot of different styles—blues, rock, surf, easy listening, country—and let them all run together when we play." Then I spice up the topic of southern food and music with Goodie Mob singing"Soul Food." Daddy put the hot grits on my chest in the morning. When I was sick, Mary had the hot soup boiling. Didn't know why, but it felt so good, Like some waffles in that morning. Headed back to the woods. Now I'm full as a tick, got some soul on blast in the cassette. Food for my brain. I haven't stopped learning yet. Hot wings from mo jos got my forehead sweating. Celery and blue cheese on my menu next. From blues to country to rock and roll to hip hop, we sample sounds and explore how they celebrate foodways through music. Bill Smith generously takes time to join my class and speaks about his work as chef at Crook's Corner. Bill explains that many local musicians earn money worked as sous chefs in his kitchen to support themselves. Bill also once ran Cat's Cradle, where musicians who worked in his kitchen also performed with their bands. He acknowledges his debt to Mrs. Council,whose work at Mama Dip's is an inspiration for his own. Then Mrs. Council speaks to the class. She tells students how she received her nickname"Dip" as a young girl because she was tall and could lean over and dip water from the barrel at her home when her siblings were thirsty. Mrs. Council carries us back in time to her life as a child in rural Orange County and her memory of the country store where her father traded eggs and the produce he raised for coffee and supplies the family needed. The country store is important. We talk about it all the time, the older generation like me. Today you go to the freezer and take things out. But in the country store nothing was boxed up. The meat was hung in the loft of the store, the ham, and the shoulder and the strick o'lean. It smelled good because even the candy was laying out. The peppermint sticks weren't wrapped up. The horehound and the Mounds was three times as big as they are today. I remember we swapped eggs in the country for our goodies. Let me tell you about the country store. Everybody knowed everybody. We would ride to town on a wagon. People would sit outside, and they could tell time by that shadow. Poppa could too. When dinner time came, he would say, "Well the bell's gonner ring in a little bit. " And that shadow would be real small, you know. Old people could tell the time of day with the shadow. People today don't know about it any more." 3