Today in class we began with a review of deadlines:
Independent Book Project due tomorrow Tuesday, 8 January.
Restaurant Review due January 17th.
(There are only two conference periods between now and then.)
Students were encouraged to ask questions and to discuss their current progress on their reviews.

We then read and listened to this news story:

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/02/168485810/self-perception-partly-to-blame-for-fewer-woman-chefs about women who are chefs and the challenges that they face.

We discussed how this story might prompt a topic for the Junior/ Senior thesis. Note a thesis is the written result of independent investigation into a question.

HOMEWORK: Students are to read and briefly annotate the article "What You Think You Knew (But Didn't) About Eating Well".