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Students will be celebrating the culinary arts this weekend as the Lafayette Arts Society holds its Progressive Dinner at various Arts Houses along Parsons Street.
The dinner, which is prepared by students living in the Arts Houses, is an informal social event where people gather at one house for the first course of a meal. They will talk and eat and then “progress” to the next course which is located at another house. The meal will begin at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
“This project began two or three years ago because students in the Arts Houses enjoyed cooking and parties,” says Lafayette College Arts Society Advisor Allison Quensen Blatt. “[They] saw it as another opportunity to explore creative expression.”
A dinner is held once a semester and attendance is limited to 35 people because of space and budget. Blatt says there is still room for more people and those who are interested should sign up on the Arts Society bulletin board across from the box office at the Williams Center by midnight Monday, April 3.
Appetizers will be served at 641 Parsons Street. The main course, which will consist of pork roast or eggplant parmesan with a side of potatoes, Irish brown bread, and salad, will be served at 624 and 626 Parsons Street. Dessert will be at 643 Parsons Street and will include bread pudding, pumpkin pie, chocolate and caramel devil’s food cake, and strawberry shortcake.
This semester’s project coordinators are Dustin Bednarz ’08, a chemistry major, and Maggie Oberrender ’07, an English major.
“I have been attending the Progressive Dinners since my freshman year, and it’s something that the Arts Society has always done for fun,” says Oberrender. “Those who help cook always have such a wonderful time getting everything ready, and people are then welcome to a free meal that contains a variety of foods. Also, holding the dinners in the Arts Houses provides an atmosphere that is extremely relaxed and home-like, which is fun to have every now and then.”