On Thursday, Nov. 16, Smith College honored the legacy of Julia Child ’34 by bringing her recipes to life in dining halls across campus. This special tradition featured students feasting on an array of delicacies from her cookbooks, recreated by dining hall staff. Specific favorites included coconut macaroons, brie en croutes and chocolate hazelnut croissants.
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 211, the Smith dining and housekeeping union, has reached an agreement for their new contract after almost five months of negotiations. The first official meeting for negotiating the new contract was May 25, and the contract was signed Nov. 14.
As Smith College welcomes back all its students to campus over a year into the pandemic, hiccups are inevitable. But what the dining program is facing is not a hiccup.
As Thanksgiving rolls around every year, it seems as though everyone has a different take on the traditional holiday menu, whether that means a complete rejection of the usual or a unique interpretation of a well-known item. At Smith, many dining hall staff members end up cooking multiple Thanksgiving dishes: some for the students who stay over break and some for their own families. Because of this, they often have experience making many different types of Thanksgiving foods.
Veronica Brown ’16 Associate Editor Last year, The Sophian reported on the struggle of a group of students with Celiac disease to gain access to…