Trashbin #11, 2006, Kaz Oshiro"What are you eating?" is the community feedback zone set up at the exit of the Banquet show. Visitors are asked to respond to questions about what food means to them, what it says about who they are. The essays, photographs and recipes submitted will be put up on boards along the corridor and there will be a monthly prize drawing for selected entries.
The first batch of contributions came from a class of 9th graders at Duarte High School, as part of a writing assignment on the idea of the banquet. Among them, an essay titled "My Friendship Table" by Lara Guiragossian (read here), offers a lively description of going to Panda Express with friends on the last day of school. It adds another dimension to the show's closing piece Trashbin # 11, 2006, Kaz Oshiro, which critiques the assimilation of Asian cuisines to American fast food culture.
Other essays included: "Family togetherness" by Corey Cheraz; "Uniting Again" by Jonathan Graham; "Dinner Occasions" by Chris Granillo; "My 14th Birthday Party!" by Irene Haro; "My Special Holiday" by Jeanette Haro; "Family togetherness" by Judith Munoz; "Family Banquets" by Eduardo Ramirez; "Being around the People and the Food you Love" by Alyssa Reyes; "How Dinner Affects Me" by Justin Robles; "The Necessities of Food" by Marisa Sadek; "What is a Banquet?" by Patricia Sierra; "The family table" by Sean Sparks; "Food on Holidays" by Ken Truong; "My Christmas Banquet" by Candy Vargas. All essays are on view in the corridor.
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