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Recipes: It’s ‘all in the knowing’
It’s more than
how to make a
good meal
By Katherine Lacaze
For Cannon Beach Gazette
Recipes are powerful piec-
es of knowledge, not simply
because they provide a process
for developing one new cre-
ation from different materials
but also as artifacts that can
make connections between
people across time, distance
and culture.
After all, the word “recipe”
has its roots in the Latin word
“recipere,” which translated
means to receive back, to take
or to exchange, Jennifer Rob-
erts, a facilitator from Grants
Pass, explained during her pro-
gram “Stone Soup: How Rec-
ipes Can Preserve History and
Nourish a Community” at the
Cannon Beach Museum and
History Center on Feb. 9.
The program was part of the
Oregon Humanities’ statewide
Conversation Project, which is
designed to bring Oregonians
from all walks of life together
in small groups to discuss im-
portant issues and ideas. Vari-
ous local nonprofits or groups
host a Conversation Project
program on a topic relevant to
their community. An Oregon
Humanities facilitator leads the
conversation, allowing their
personality and those of differ-
ent audience members to shape
each discussion.
Roberts, for example, has
a fascination with the history
of science and medicine, and
her study of alchemy and ear-
ly pharmacology sparked her
interest in recipes of all kinds.
She is currently working on a
novel set in the 17th century
that involves witchcraft, alche-
my and recipes.
To start the conversa-
tion, she shared how a single
County praised by speaker
for opting out of lawsuit
Lecture from Page 1A
“Let the county commis-
sion know you agree and sup-
port a balanced approach (in
harvesting state forests) and
that they should go to Salem to
lobby for a balanced approach.
You should have direct contact
with your elected officials,” he
added.
During his presentation,
entitled, “How to Protect
50,000 Acres in Clatsop
County,” Van Dyk discussed
the history behind the creation
of Oregon’s state forests and
the current lawsuit filed by
Linn County.
The class action lawsuit is
seeking $1.4 billion in damag-
es for 15 counties. Linn Coun-
ty claims that the state has not
maximized the logging that
could be done in the state for-
ests and that this has resulted
in less income for counties to
pay for public services.
Although Clatsop County
was included as a plaintiff in
the lawsuit, the county com-
mission voted 3-2 last month
to opt out of it.
Earlier in January, the Can-
non Beach City Council voted
4-1 to send a resolution to the
county commission urging the
county to withdraw from the
lawsuit.
Van Dyk took his audience
back to 1920, when private
companies owned the forests
in Oregon. But following the
Great Depression, the coun-
ties gained ownership of the
properties when much of the
land had been logged and
timber companies couldn’t
pay their taxes. The counties
then turned the forests over
to the state to manage in the
“greatest permanent value” for
all Oregonians.
Following several fires
that devastated the forests
from 1933 to 1951, the state
Legislature authorized bonds
to replant the forests.
The state Department of
Forestry oversees more than
800,000 acres. Revenue from
harvesting those forests —
including portions of over a
half-million acres in Clatsop
and Tillamook counties — is
given to the counties annually
to finance schools and other
public services. Clatsop Coun-
ty is the largest state forestry
timber producer, Van Dyk
said.
Harvest targets are set by
management plans adopted
by the state; the latest North-
west Oregon plan was adopted
in 2010.
In addition to harvest-
ing timber, the plan includes
strategies for maintaining a
diverse forest of tree species
and growth levels, watersheds,
recreational uses, wildlife hab-
itat and carbon storage.
17th-century cookbook often
contained all sorts of recipes
— for pies; eye washes made
with pigeon dung; snail water
to treat consumption; perfume;
and much more.
“The common thread is that
you’re taking a list of things
and you’re creating something
out of raw materials,” Roberts
said. “So it’s materials and pro-
cess.”
What now would be de-
scribed as recipes originally
were called receipts — also
from the term “recipere.”
Doctors wrote receipts for pa-
tients, who then took them to
an apothecary for the listed
materials. That history also lies
behind the symbol for medical
prescriptions, Rx.
The etymology of “recipe”
exposes a confluence between
a scientific or medical concept
and the idea of community and
history. It supports the idea of
recipes as “amazing historical
artifacts that can kind of trans-
Community growth
During the program, partic-
ipants collectively read Mar-
cia Brown’s 1975 version of
“Stone Soup, an Old Tale Re-
told,” a Portuguese fable that
has been retold through multi-
ple adaptations.
In Brown’s version, three
soldiers happened upon a
town. “The peasants of that
place feared strangers,” the sto-
ry goes, so when the soldiers
asked for food and shelter for
the night, the peasants pretend-
ed they had neither to offer.
The soldiers began mak-
ing a soup using nothing but
a stone, and explaining to the
peasants what they were doing
to create the dish. In the pro-
cess, individuals from the town
began contributing to the meal,
starting with vegetables, milk,
barley and meat for the soup,
and then expanding their offer-
ings to roast, cider, bread and,
KATHERINE LACAZE/FOR CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Jennifer Roberts facilitates the discussion for the Oregon
Humanities’ Conversation Project “Stone Soup: How Rec-
ipes Can Preserve History and Nourish A Community,”
hosted at the Cannon Beach Museum and History Center.
eventually, “the best beds in the
village” for the soldiers to rest
for the night.
Before the soldiers left, the
peasants expressed gratitude
for what the soldiers taught
them.
“It’s all in the knowing
how,” one of the soldiers re-
plied.
Through a group discus-
sion, participants agreed on
several main ideas or morals
to be drawn from the story and
applied them to contemporary
views of community. In the sto-
ry, each person from the town
provided their own unique
contribution when making the
stone soup.
“There’s an element of trust
when you’re doing something
as a community, and every-
body’s doing their part,” said
Bonnie Neugebauer, of Can-
non Beach.
Poet laureate reflects on human condition
Poet from Page 1A
second book “Luminaries of
the Humble” is a compilation
of her reflections as she ob-
serves everyday life.
Before each reading, she
preceded the selection with
anecdotes that prompted her
writings. Her collection of po-
ems in “Wind Movement” de-
scribes important elements that
were important to her father.
Comparing his beloved Navajo
language to the wind, Woody
explained, “It’s like the wind,
you can’t name it; it is just
there — like energy.”
“Rosette,” for example, is
the desire to learn the art of
beading from her grandmother
who, when asked, informed
Woody that she already was
an expert beader. Disappoint-
ed with this answer, Woody
threw away the medallions she
had beaded. Her grandmother
fetched them from the trash,
sewed pins to the backs and
wore them to an event; proud-
ly telling everyone her grand-
daughter had made them.
Another reading evoked the
memory of her grandparents
telling stories every morning
during breakfast. Reflecting,
Woody imparted on how much
in love her grandparents were
and how often they giggled.
She told of the time her grand-
father visualized her grand-
mother as “a beautiful little girl
on a beautiful horse with beau-
tiful long glistening braids.”
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Surprised, Woody ex-
claimed, “And I thought he
was talking about me.”
Another involved an out-
ing to a powwow. Woody
wanted to dance, but thought
she was not suitably dressed.
Her grandmother answered
her plea, “Of course you can
dance. This is your dress, your
invisible dress,” she said as
she lifted Woody’s hand and
touched her arm.
Though the conversations
sometimes rambled, they
were engaging and transpar-
ent. Learning from her fam-
ily’s traditions and learning
the meaning of words broad-
ened Woody’s understanding
of how the power of language
can draw people in and not shut
them out.
As a child, Woody remem-
bers limited availability of
reading material: the Bible,
an encyclopedia and the dic-
tionary. Fascinated, she read
the entire dictionary because
she “wanted to know what the
words meant.”
Falling in love with words,
she sought out books to read.
One of the first was Dr. Seuss
and one of the earliest poems
that moved her was “A Cat
Named Sloopy” by Rod McK-
uen.
Buffy Sainte-Marie, a song-
writer and activist for indig-
enous people also proved an
inspiration. “Sainte-Marie’s
unwavering voice could not be
suppressed,” she said.
During
the
1970s,
Sainte-Marie was blacklisted
from having her music aired
on American radio stations.
“Simplicity is profound,” said
Woody, “it takes a lot from
within to overcome people try-
ing to stop your livelihood. You
can’t let it suppress the human
spirit.”
When asked about writing
poetry, Woody says she doesn’t
really know how the poems
come about, “but it’s about
what I think … sometimes
it connects and sometimes it
doesn’t.”
She likes to write her
thoughts down before retiring
at night and rising in the morn-
ing. “Over time, it becomes
easier and if you go back and
read what you’ve written,
you’ll notice a pattern. Poet-
ry makes words good again,”
Woody said.
She was named as Oregon’s
eighth poet laureate by Gover-
nor Kate Brown in 2016 and
will serve a two-year appoint-
ment. Woody is the first Native
American to hold the title.
Woody received the 1990
American Book Award for
“Hand Into Stone.” She re-
ceived the William Stafford
Memorial Award for Poetry
in 1995 and was a finalist for
the Oregon Book Awards that
same year. Woody also writes
short fiction, essays and is a
visual artist. She is currently
working on her next book.
As laureate, Woody will
spend her two years as an am-
bassador cultivating the art
of poetry, promoting creative
expression and literacy on Or-
egon life and culture.
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