My
name is Susan Ji-Young Park. I have two children, a five year old boy and a nine ten year old girl.
Besides
being a mom, I’m a writer, a cooking instructor and a board member of Slow
Food Pan-Arab now defunct (a division of Slow Food International www.slowfood.com). I also work as a coordinator: building and connecting infrastructures. I'm the media contact and public relations person for various entitities (more details later).
I entered the food business because I’m fascinated by the history and globalization of food. The history of food tells us stories of trade, colonialism, technology transfers, and human migration to name just a few narratives.
For any given food related job I have, I work alone for the most part. Whether it involves writing cooking class materials, media kits, book proposals, developing and writing recipes for publication, writing a grant or strategic planning- I do the bulk of the work alone.
This blog is to keep in touch with my professional network allover the world. Many of us work in related fields or similar projects. I keep connected to my network and friends through narrative arcs. Some of my posts are about framing our collaborative activities into a cohesive story with dimension. It gives us a sense of place and time on a larger map. "The internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom, John Stewart.
I came about this eclectic potpourri of interests in food and politics through a web of events that are too complicated and uninteresting to go into here.
