right
like other fields the study where you might be able to go to the library
and pull down twenty bucks
we don't have the stories of food in texas hidden in our libraries they're not
have behind the walls of the university they're not in at
that's the archives they are really live vivid things that are in our communities and
if we take the skills of the university and we take the ability we have
to ask questions and the really good skills that we have to preserve material so
that people can use them
and we go to those communities and say what do you know what's your story
how to develop over time then we have a new body of knowledge that we
all can interact with and then we all can look at and say
how to surprise us what is the story what is going on and to me
that's where food gets really interesting