Frank McCourt once taught a creative writing class using recipes from cookbooks. he stumbled on the idea, on a lark, not know what to do with it initially.
a year ago, I was preparing to teach a slam poetry class and came upon the idea of using recipes to explore adjectives and description. (are recipes that commonplace in creative writing classes?). anyhow, the lesson flopped. partly because I wasn’t so prepared, didn’t have the experience (in teaching a writing class) how to commandeer the lesson and minds, but also because my students (all 2 of them) were not really poets and certainly not Stuyvesant students.
