feature storie layout experience

Designing the feature story layout has been stressfull. I took a picture of my mom, my interviewee but the lighting was horrible, so I now have to take a new picture. Overall i think my layout still needs work. The colors I used are fun but just seem to plain and boring. The part I like the most is my feature story because it is about my mother who I love very much. But I know that in the end everything will turn out well.

Leads

Narrative

A Mexican tamale maker is something common but a Honduran tamale maker is more ordinary. Combining the many taste of different foods gives the honduran tamales a unique taste.

Descriptive

Nice and delicious is what the Honduran tamale is, with all  its ability to change a community and impact a city this food brings all the ingredients to the cooking scene.


Narrative

When you think of tamales you think of the ones from Mexico. But does anyone really think of Honduran Tamales? Just ask the loyal clients of Aida Canales a Honduran Tamale maker that originated in none other than the country of Honduras.

Vandana's leads~!

First lead- descriptive: After throwing her keys and bag onto the counter, she walks into her kitchen, washes her hands, and then starts to take out a few things from here and there-- a tablespoon of raisins, a few cups of honey, a teapot, a handful of nuts, half a stick of butter, and a thick cookbook that has printed in large letters, Recipes for a Small Planet. A few moments later, she puts the resulting mixture in the oven, and, instead of munching from a bag of popcorn or a chocolate bar to kill the time like most people, she reaches for a stalk of broccoli. About an hour passes, and she emerges from the kitchen with delicious, healthy muffins and a large pot of tea.

Second lead- descriptive: She walks into the cafeteria of the hospital she works at, and sits at a small table, ready to eat her lunch. Her friend walks over and sits next to her, a large slice of greasy pizza releasing its’ disgusting stench to her nostrils. She shakes her head, and takes out a large container and a spoon from her bag, ready to dig in. She opens the lid of the container and starts to eat her delicious meal-- lentil soup with shredded cabbage?

Third lead- descriptive: After her stomach declares for food, she takes yesterday’s leftover lentil soup from her large fridge and thinks of ways she could change it up a little, instead of eating the exact same thing as yesterday. After thinking for a while, she opens her fridge again and starts shredding a large head of cabbage into the bowl.

Note: Yeah, I’m thinking of changing the food “she” eats in the third lead because I know I kind of overdid it with the lentil soup and the cabbage already :D

--Star (Vandana)

My Interview Experience :D

I interviewed Rajina Pradhan, the owner of Tarka Indian Kitchen. My experience was really good. I learned a lot about the restaurant and its employees. I learned the history behind how the whole restaurant had started. I asked her the questions I wrote down pretty casually and then the order they were in didn't seem to come out of no where. I had a little problem getting hold of Ms. Pradhan at the beginning but she called back and we decided to have the interview right then. She answered my questions really well and gave nice long answers with very useful information that will be helpful for my feature. And she showed very much interest in answering my questions and was very nice and friendly. The employees over there were also very encouraging towards me after the interview and were kind as well. Over all, I really enjoyed the interview and came to know many amazing facts about Tarka Indian Kitchen. 

Amazing interview experience?(:

So this weekend, on Sunday, I met up with Ms. Jennifer Reinhardt, a friend of my mother, who has been eating only fresh food and cooking her own food for thirteen years!
She was a wonderful person, always adding paragraphs worth of information instead of a simple answer to each of my questions, and she was very helpful, always ready with an answer instead of "um", "erm", or "uhhh".
I was fascinated, learning so much more about her than what I had learned earlier, and even thought about changing my way of eating! (:

--Star (Vandana)

Guguraguragurakhrkhrkhr's feature interview experience

My interview was very memorable because i got to ask my mother about her experiences as a child making tamales. I already knew alot about my mothers childhood but i never for some reason asked her about how she learned to cook. Interviewing is very interesting because it lets you know about the points of views of others. I really got cool quotes and i hope that feature story turns out well.

Candy Sushi

Today in Red Cross Club (which is a fantastic club right here at LASA) we were discussing interesting ideas to raise money for relief efforts in Japan (which just had a 7.1 magnitude aftershock today) and Haiti. We ended up thinking about a bake sale (because everyone loves sweet treats) and I remembered this fun recipe for Candy Sushi (from about.com) that I had to share.

http://video.about.com/candy/How-to-Make-Candy-Sushi.htm (There is a link here to the printable version, but I was not able to post those due to formatting issues)

Click here to see a photo tutorial of a mother and her adorable child making candy sushi.

--Cheesecake (Chaaru)