About me:
It must be said that I am animal lover at my core, having stopped eating fish after watching Finding Nemo at the age of four. I grew up outside of Cleveland, where I climbed trees and professed in first grade that my favorite food was mataar paneer, baffling my peers, who most commonly identified pizza and hamburgers as their answer to the “All About Me” question. I have cherished summers away from Cleveland, too, growing herbs in the northwest corner of Montana and tending to rescued farm animals in upstate New York. Aside from my status as an animal lover, I am a lover of communal cooking and messy eating as well as rollerblading and sitting lakeside.
About Log Lunch:
A campus-wide tradition, Log Lunch consists of weekly vegetarian meals cooked by students, made from veggies provided by local farmers, and munched on during an environmentally-themed lecture. Every week, a group of student workers stages a takeover of a local restaurant. We do this in order to spend five hours cooking a locally-sourced, eco-conscious meal for an average of 120 students, faculty, and community members. Since its inception in the 1970s, Log Lunch, funded by Williams’ Center for Environmental Studies, has fostered connections between the Williams campus and the surrounding farming community nestled in the Berkshire Mountains. Thus, Log Lunch fundamentally centers the role of food in community building.
Our valued farming partners include:
Mighty Food Farm, Peace Valley Farm, Bigfoot Farm, and Wildstone Farm.