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Classes support enviro-friendly cooking
Meg Rawls
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Four professors
developed the FVxxl for
Thought cluster, appro
priately enough, during a
meal together two years
ago. After their second
annual Harvest Bounty
-Shared Meal Sunday
night, they said they still
approach new ideas the
same way: around a table.
"F(X)d is often in
volved in our meetings,”
said Karin Peterson, as
sociate sEK’iology profes-
.sor and co-c(X)rdinator
of F(xxl for Thought.
"The four of us sat down
around a meal and chat
ted about what would be
g(xxl ways to engage our
students and how they
could bring the expertise
from their discipline to
educating them.selves
and others in the clusters.
The great thing about this
project is students learn
from other students in
their group.”
The addition of ass(x;i-
ate biology professor Da
vid Clarke to the cluster
and the invitation of local
farmers and restaurant
owners as guests were
two changes made to the
event this year.
Tike last year, students
from the cluster courses
formed teams and created
a meal for 10 people with
an assigned constraint.
Kach group had a con
straint of lcx:al ftxxls, or
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Mersey, senior drama
student.
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of a daisy is from a
song from (iirl Scout
camp. I spent the
summer on staff at a
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to commemorate that.
It is dripping with
raindrops becau.se
Raindrop is my
counselor name, and I
wanted to indicate that
it had been through
an event that, instead
of killing the flower,
helped it grow.
I got it on August 11 at
Mcxlem Electric Tattoo
in Rocky Mount, NC:
designed and executed
by Cliff Bush.”
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t)r limited budget.
“The con.straints we
chose ba.sed on com-
mt)n ct)nstraints that
families deal with. We
tried tt) px)l the different
aspects and ettnstraints
St) the grt)up wt)uld
have a challenge,” said
Sally Wasileski, assistant
chemistry prt)fesst)r and
a co-ctx)rdinatt>r for the
event. “It wasn’t Just
abt)ut them cottking and
having a meal tttgether;
it was abt)ut them really
having tt) think through
all the different aspects
that go into preparing just
t)ne meal."
The result was a
diverse range t)f care
fully prepared meals and
table dect)rations, but the
students were graded on
more than taste and ambi
ance. Each group had to
analyze the nutritional
value of their meal and
ct)nsider sustainability.
“One of our main
goals is to help students
reconnect with the source
of their food and have an
understanding of how to
be an informed consumer
of food, so it’s kind of
rolling those pieces back
together,” said Amy
Tanou, assistant professor
of health and wellness.
Lanou said her focus,
as a nutritionist, was on
the health aspect.
Junior environmental
economics student Noah
Carlson helped prepare
a meal for team apple,
which worked with the
low budget constraint.
Carlson said his team
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sacrificed sustainability to
drive as far as Wal-Mart
for supplies, but they did
meet budget. CarLson said
he had cooking experi
ence prior to his land
economics class with as
sociate professor of eco
nomics Leah Mathews,
but the challenge to feed
10 people for $30 made
him approach cooking in
a new way.
Wasileski said the
chemistry of food class is
the only one in the cluster
to incorprate cooking dur
ing class.
“In our class, the main
learning outcome is to
understand chemistry
principles and how they
relate to our everyday
world,” Wasileski said.
Several science labs
require students to cook
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The Harvest Bounty Shared Meal celebrated the new
Food for Thought cluster. Team jicama won the aes
thetics award for their autumn themed table (above).
Each of the seven members on the team won a pump
kin from Jafasa Farm (left).
within the cluster, her
or bake and then analyze
the chemistry involved
during the process. Ac
cording to Wasileski,
one of the experiments
includes a common food.
“In learning about how
molecules interact with
one another, we make
butter, because that’s an
example of changing the
intermolecular interac
tions between molecules
that are in cream to make
the solid butter and the
liquid kind of buttermilk
that comes off,” she said.
Team jicama was
not obligated to make
their own butter for their
homemade wheat bread,
but it was necessary to
cook with only organic
ingredients. Senior litera
ture student Rachel Poole
said after two courses
cooking experience is still
fairly minimal.
“I don’t think it made
me a better cook; it just
made me more aware of
what I’m consuming. I
don’t think the point is
to learn how to cook,”
Poole said. “It’s learning
about the process of what
you’re putting into your
body.”
Team jicama won the
aesthetics award for the
execution of their autumn
theme. Team leeks, one
of the low budget teams,
won the most innova
tive use of food for their
homemade ice cream.
The prize was a pumpkin
from Jafasa Farm for each
member of each winning
team.
Risque comedian lounges in Asheville
Erica Grabon
Arts & Feature Writer
EHGRABON@UNCA.EDU
Offensive, funny,
rude, talented and per
verted are a few words
that de.scribc the lounge
singer Tony Clifton, a
performer who comedian
Andy Kaufman di.scov-
ered. Just don’t mention
that to Clifton.
“Someone asked me
the other day what 1
thought Andy Kaufman
would be doing if he was
alive today,” Clifton said.
“You know what I said?
He’d be scratching at the
inside of his coffin!”
Andy Kaufman and
Bob Zmuda first intro
duced Tony Clifton in
l%9. He opened for
many of Kaufman’s
shows and appeared
on Letterman, among
other talk shows. After
Kaufman died, Clifton
continued to perform
solo. He also appeared
in the movie “Man on
the M(X)n.” starring Jim
Carrey.
“Eve been doing this
my whole life,” Clifton
.said.
One theory suggests
Clifton was an alternate
persona for Kaufman and
that Zmuda appeared as
Clifton on occasion.
“There is a good
chance it’s Bob Zmuda;
there’s a gtxxJ chance
Bob Zmuda passed the
torch on to someone ekse.
It could be that Tony
Clifton was always Tony
Clifton, and people were
ju.st made to believe that
it was Bob Zmuda and
Andy Kaufman.” said
21 -year-old David How
ard. “TTie question is,
do you know who Tony
Clifton is?"
During the show at
the Orange Peel last
week. Clifton sang fa
mous lounge .songs such
as Lonely Girl, Kick in
the Head, Goldfinger and
Swearing to God. When
he wasn’t singing, he
insulted the audience, the
South, religions, nation
alities, Andy Kaufman
and anyone else that
came to mind.
“I think he does what
he does for .shock value,
and it works,” Howard
said. “I was splattered
with water, beer and
asked to dance by this
drunk chick. It was
interesting. But he bal
ances it out pretty well.”
Clifton performed
with the Katrina Kiss My
Ass Orchestra, which
formed in New Orleans.
Like any lounge act
there were costume
changes and stylish out
fits as well as a burlesque
troupe that was put
together by Trixie Minx,
a New Orleans native.
“We’ve been work
ing with Tony Clifton
since May and our first
performances were in
June. All of the girls are
professional dancers in
my troupe, which is now
part of Tony's troupe.”
Minx said.
The constant shifts on
stage were difficult for
some performers.
“At first it drove me
crazy,” the 26-year-old
said. “It’s not a regular
show at all. It’s not run at
all like anything else I’ve
ever been a part of, but
the more I’m in it, the
more I fall in love with
it. It’s so off-the-cuff.”
Minx offered a great
deal of praise for the
talent of the performers
as well.
“We all had different
gigs and talent scouts
came down to where we
were playing in little
clubs and said, ‘hey,
you’re really good,’”
.said Joshua Paxton, the
pianist for the band. “I
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Coniedian Tony Clifton showcased at the Orange Peel last week. His act included
the Katrina Kiss My Ass orchestra and a burlesque dance troupe,
said, ‘yeah, ok, what
ever.’ Then he said, ‘I’m
from Comic Relief. How
would you like to come
play for Tony Clifton?”’
Musicians like drum
mer Alfred Salvant have
nothing but praise for
Clifton and the show.
“It’s the best damn
thing in the world. You
have Tony Clifton, just
don’t care what he says,”
Salvant said. “You got
a 10 to 15-piece band
orchestra, you got bur
lesque dancers and sing
ers. What more could
you want? I mean it’s
the greatest damn show
on earth.”
Clifton’s antics can be
hard to deal with at times
for some performers.
It s Tony being Tony,
and people react to that
in different ways. The
emotional content is very
real and people had just
had enough and ended up
leaving the stage. When
we finished the show the
twelve piece band was
reduced to four mem
bers,” Paxton said.
In the end, not all the
members who left the
stage quit the band but
a few did, so the band
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lony Chfton continues to quip with the audience as
he changes into a glitzier ensemble.
is now in a transitional
period, Paxton said.
“It’s an incredible
experience. Tony is
everything he seems and
more,” Paxton said.
Though the band trav
els with the dancers on
two buses, Clifton travels
alone. Occasionally,
goes out afterward to
, he
party with the band. Yet
no matter where he goes,
the report from the band
is always the same.
“Tony Clifton is Tony
Clifton,” Minx said. “I
don’t know about Bob
Zmuda or Andy Kauf
man, but Tony has
always been my No. 1.”