Cookbook
with a foreign accent—plus a noon program in English
On
February
3 our noon program will feature award-winning immigration attorney Mira
Mdivani. This native of Russia and current Brookside resident will
present a La
Causerie program in English. All La Causerie members are welcome to
attend.
Mira
will
discuss her latest book, "Cooking with an Accent - An Immigration
Lawyer's
Cookbook," in which she recounts stories and recipes shared by
newcomers
to America from all over the world. Mira will share with you the fun
she had
meeting the people behind the recipes, including cooking with them. She will punctuate these stories—which she
says are all positive and full of love—with visual images shown using
our new
digital projector.
One of the recipes comes from our own Ninfa Redmond.
A recent KC Star article describes this recipe as
"eschabeche de pollo from a Peruvian toxicologist." A linguist
extraordinaire and fluent in all of La Causerie's languages, Ninfa
recently
took time off from her busy career as an official court
interpreter/translator
to substitute teach for us in Italian. Thank you, Ninfa, for
sharing your
many talents with us!
Resources
Your fellow members have
stepped forward with some
interesting Internet resources. Check them out.
New member Barbara
Christopher made us aware of this
website:
LanguageGuide.org offers
free sound
integrated resources
for learning
languages. Resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers.
It is sponsored by Language Guide,
a registered non-profit
organization and includes our three languages, plus many others. http://www.languageguide.org
Barbara
Shapiro put us on to this fun site, where you can play 20 Questions in
the
language you are studying: www.20q.net.
Also,
check
out www.yourdictionary.com
for
thousands of dictionaries, including foreign language (and chocolate!)
ones.
La
Causerie Featured in The Independent Magazine
Our
Holiday
Fête was featured in a full-page color spread in the January 14 issue
of the
Independent. Some copies are
available
if you’d like one—check the Fireside Room or contact Inez.
Food
Needed
Anastasia
Thompson has sent out another request for members to bring treats and
to help
with set-up and clean-up for our Friday treats. Please
sign up in the Fireside Room to help with this much
appreciated service.
Livret
Updates
You
might
want to add the information below to your Livret:
These
members have new email addresses:
Carolyn Skelton (see
print version)
Cerise Harris (see
print version)
Roberta Barnes (see
print version)
Change of home address:
Salvatore Iannazzo (see
print version) email same
New members:
Judith Walter (see print
version) French
Katherine McClernon (see
print version) Spanish
Michael Edwards (see
print version) Spanish
Mary Ann Pinkerton (see print version) French, Spanish
Nan Wilson has rejoined: (see print version) Spanish
Susan Gardner (see print
version) French
Also,
the
new mailing address for La Causerie:
6320 Brookside Plaza, #253, KC, MO 64113.
Have a
suggestion related to your class?
Then
tell
your department chair who is responsible for taking care of issues that
need
attention (such as class schedules and curriculum ideas).
Here’s who they are and how to contact them:
Department
Chairs:
Italian – Carol Dirkes
(see
print version)
French – Peggy Rooney (see
print version)
Spanish – Annette
Howard (see
print version)
By-Laws Update
Member Merrill Toms has undertaken the somewhat thankless task of reviewing our by-laws and considering updates needed to keep this important document relevant to La Causerie’s current mission. If you would like to help him with this process, feel free to give him a call. Or, if you have suggestions for needed adjustments to our by-laws, please share them with Merrill.
Snow Policy
La
Causerie
Française follows the Shawnee Mission School District practice on snowy
or icy
days. If the Shawnee Mission District
closes its schools due to bad weather, La Causerie will also be closed. In case of inclement weather, please listen
to the list of school closings on television and radio.
All
programs are at noon, unless otherwise noted:
Feb 3 English
Program Immigration attorney Mira
Mdivani (Russian native and
Brookside resident) will discuss her latest book, "Cooking with an
Accent
- An Immigration Lawyer's Cookbook" in which she recounts stories and
recipes shared by newcomers to America. She will share her experiences
in
English using visuals presented with our new projector.
Feb 10 French
(and English) Program Sébastien Saint-ouen, La
Patisserie/Artisian Francais, will
discuss French pastry making. All La Causerie members will
appreciate—and be
able to understand—this program.
Feb 17 Spanish
Program Zulima Lugo-Knapp will
speak on her experiences as a
journalist, her re-location to this country and her poetry. Zulima
moved to St.
Joseph, MO from Maracaibo, Venezuela five years ago. She has a
Master's
degree in Venezuelan Literature and Bachelor's degree in Social
Communications
with an emphasis in audiovisual media from the Universidad del Zulia.
Currently
she is a private teacher/tutor of Spanish, writer/publisher of St.
Joseph's
Spanish newsletter "Ojos Sobre Papel.” Her first book of poetry, titled
"Espigas," was published in 2005.
Feb 24 Italian
Program Our
own Nina Mehta Young, professor
of Art History at KCAI, discusses Italian Renaissance Art with terrific
visuals
(using our new projector). In Italian.
Lunch follows.