{"id":636,"date":"2015-11-17T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/?p=636"},"modified":"2015-11-17T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:23:50","slug":"my-first-visit-with-omar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/my-first-visit-with-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Visit With Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my first visit with Omar, my mentee\u00a0from Port Richmond, I was delightfully excited to learn about his food culture. I was surprised how passionate his family and he was about the foods that they eat, and how selective they are about where they get their food from. I learned that Omar is Muslim and cooks primarily with a Muslim influence. He eats a lot of steak, and rice, and teaches other students in his culinary class what he eats and how he makes it. I was surprised at Omar&#8217;s enthusiasm and willingness to try different foods out of his food culture. He learned that I was Italian, and shared with me that his Mom cooks spaghetti frequently, although it has a Muslim twist. He shared that his Mom uses unconventional spices (he didn&#8217;t say which) that I wouldn&#8217;t be accustomed to in\u00a0<em>my\u00a0<\/em>spaghetti. He also shared that would like to own a restaurant after college, and plans on majoring in business in college. I was delighted to hear that he plans on further his education after high school.<\/p>\n<p>I assumed that Omar learned his cooking techniques in his culinary class, but I was wrong. \u00a0Omar teaches most of the students in his culinary class\u00a0<em>his\u00a0<\/em>techniques. He talked about making stew and steak in his classes, but prefers to cook outside of class, where he can infuse his Muslim spices, and special ingredients into the food.<\/p>\n<p>Omar is a determined young adult, and I hope he is as successful as he is working towards. I loved hearing about his family, the way his family and he eat, and his cooking techniques. I can not wait to observe him in his culinary class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my first visit with Omar, my mentee\u00a0from Port Richmond, I was delightfully excited to learn about his food culture. I was surprised how passionate his family and he was about the foods that they eat, and how selective they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/my-first-visit-with-omar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}