Food Services hosts its annual Taste of Home in campus dining halls On Dec. 7, the four dining halls across campus will offer up the 18th serving of its annual “Taste of Home” event. Open to meal-plan participants as well as faculty and staff, “A Taste of Home” features recipes submitted from students’ parents and relatives as well as UGA employees. The recipes have been “super-sized” or converted to feed the large quantity of dining hall patrons. Originally called “A Tribute to Mother’s Day,” the family-themed dining experience began at UGA after Michael Floyd, Food Services director, visited another campus which offered a similar dining event. “I wanted to re-create the idea at UGA but asked myself what we could do to make it even more special,” Floyd says. “That’s when we decided to feature different recipes in each of the dining halls on campus and present a commemorative dinner plate to the recipients of the winning recipes.” Planning for “A Taste of Home” doesn’t start in the kitchen. Anywhere from 450 to 600 recipes are submitted each year, and the management team and culinary staff supervise the selection process. The foods are sorted into groups and from there a menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner is assembled. “We look for those unique recipes easy to convert to an institutional-sized recipe,” Floyd says. “We want a recipe that really says, ‘This is from someone’s parents.’” After the recipes are selected, they are then tested and entered into a computerized food production system. This program expands the serving size from the usual eight-to ten serving size to one large enough for 7,000, which is enough to feed students, staff and faculty. Each of the four dining halls—Snelling, Bolton, Oglethorpe and the Village Summit—will feature a different menu on the day of the event. Breakfast is $6.35, lunch $8 and dinner $11. Among the 120 recipes featured this year are Shrimp Feta, Okra-fried Rice, Great Grandma Mil’s Cheesy Potatoes and Coconut-Sour Cream Layer Cake. The selected recipes often become a permanent addition to the dining hall menus, according to Floyd. “A Taste of Home allows parents to become part of the UGA family,” he says. “Sharing recipes creates a bond between parents and the institution, which makes this event a very unique experience and shows that we care for our customers.” —Emily Begnaud

Art exhibitions.
From Sideboard to Pulpit: Silver in Georgia.
Through March 26. Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.

Visions of Byzantium: The Works of Harriett Matthews. Through Dec. 9. Main Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday. 542-0069.

In the early 1960s Matthews was a MFA student at UGA’s School of Art, when Lamar Dodd was the chair of the department. She studied sculpture with Leonard DeLonga and took classes in ancient and Byzantine art and architecture with Ljubica D. Popovich.

Exhibits.
“Power to the People—Rural Electrification in Georgia.” Through Sept. 30. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Russell Library. Additional hours: Saturdays 1-4:45 p.m.

William Few: Forgotten Patriot. Through Jan. 10. 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday. Turner Gallery, Hargrett Library (third floor, Main Library). Sponsored by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the UGA Libraries. 542-7123.

Silent auction.
“Landscape Architecture as Social Response.” Through Dec. 19. Circle Gallery (G14 Caldwell Hall). 542-4674.

Recent events along the Gulf Coast are certain to change attitudes toward land use and design. Join Hank Methvin and his landscape architect students in a celebration of the power of landscape architecture to aid in the recovery process. The drawings and photographs in this show will be on sale through a silent auction.

The art will be on silent auction until Dec. 21 to benefit the citizens of the rebuilding Gulf Coast.

Monday, December 5
Workshop.
“Greenery Wreaths.” $28 ($25 members). 6:30-
8:30 p.m. Workshop repeated Dec. 6. State Botanical Garden. Visitor Center, classroom A. 542-6156.

Meeting.
One Campaign, the student advocacy group that works to raise awareness about extreme poverty, AIDS and preventable diseases. 6 p.m. 213 Student Learning Center.

Heartsaver CPR Training.
Advance registration required. $25 (CPR on adults), $40 (CPR on adults, children and infants). 1-5 p.m. University Health Center. 542-8695.

Workshop.
“How to Write an Abstract.” For students interested in presenting research at the annual CURO symposium. 5:45 p.m. 247 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities. 542-4053.

Tuesday, December 6
Bulldog Breakfast Club.
Guest host: Deryl F. Bailey, assistant professor, UGA College of Education. $10 ($5 student members). RSVP. 7:45- 8:30 a.m. Wray-Nicholson House. Sponsored by the Alumni Association. 542-8199.

Workshop.
“Greenery Wreaths.” $28 ($25 members). 9-11 a.m. Repeat of Dec. 5 workshop. State Botanical Garden Visitor Center, classroom A. 542-6156.

Women’s Basketball.
vs. Iona. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

Concert.
University Philharmonia. 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 542-3737.

Wednesday, December 7
Lecture.
“The Lion and the Lamp: Myth and Truth in the Chronicles of Narnai,” Jonathan Evans, English. 12:15-1:15 p.m. 309 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the Christian Faculty Forum.

With the release of the new film The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, there is renewed interest in the message of C.S. Lewis’s classic book. A complimentary lunch will be provided to those who RSVP in advance to jhager@clm.org.

Lunch-in-Theory Lecture.
“Playing Dead in Seneca’s Troades,” Mario Erasmo, classics. 12:20-1:10 p.m. 245 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Staff Council Meeting.
2:15 p.m. 213 Student Learning Center. 542-0043.

Seminar.
“Through the Looking Glass: Genome Evolution in Eukaryotic Microbes,” Laura Katz, biological sciences, Smith College. 4 p.m. B118 Life Sciences. Sponsored by the genetics department. 542-8000.

Open Studio: Life Drawing.
$3. Live models; no instruction; participants must provide their own supplies; ages 17 and younger must have parental permission. 5:30 p.m. Forio Studio Classroom. Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Workshop.
“Botanically Inspired Silk Scarf Creations.” $25 ($22 members). 6:30-8:30 p.m. Visitor Center, classroom A. State Botanical Garden. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden and Good Dirt Studio. 542-6156.

Men’s Basketball.
vs. Georgia Tech. Televised on Fox Sports Net South. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

Thursday, December 8
Last day of fall semester classes.

Workshop.
“Flower Arranging Unit 5: Creative Miniature Designs.” $23 ($20 members). 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Visitor Center, classroom A. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden and the Garden Club of Georgia. 542-6156.

Lecture.
“Racing Modern Poetry: A Triptych,” Marsha Bryant, University of Florida. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Office of Institutional Diversity and the President’s Office. 542-1261.

An associate professor of English at the University of Florida, Bryant will address Edith Sitwell’s figurations of Africans and Asians in her performance text Facade; Gwendolyn Brooks’s depiction of white liberals in her postwar poetry; and the racial inflections of “otherness” in confessional poetry by Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.

Bryant, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1989, is the author of Auden and Documentary
in the 1930s (UVA Press, 1997) and the editor of Photo Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature (University of Delaware, 1996). She is currently at work on a third book that takes interdisciplinary approaches to 20th-century women’s poetry.

Friday, December 9
Reading day.

Conference.
Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Graduate Certificate Program Student Conference. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Aderhold Hall. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Graduate Certificate Program. 542-4060.

Saturday, December 10
Art Exhibition.
Works from the Permanent Collection. Through March 19. Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

In conjunction with the third Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, the Georgia Museum of Art presents a themed display of objects.

Workshop.
“Unit 1: Beekeeping Nuts and Bolts.” Beekeeping for Beginners Series. $45 ($40 members). 9 a.m.-noon. Callaway Auditorium and Botanical Garden Visitor Center, classroom A. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Women’s Basketball.
vs. Savannah State. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum.

BFSO Holiday Party.
$20. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Scott Hall, Navy Supply Corps School. Sponsored by the UGA Black Faculty and Staff Organization. 542-6998.

Monday, December 12
Fall semester final exams.
Through Dec. 16.

Coming up
Concert.
Georgia Children’s Chorus. Dec. 13. 7 p.m. Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 542-3737.

Cook’s Holiday.
Dec. 15-16. $10.95 per person. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Food Services. 542-1856.