A recent UMBC News & Magazine article highlighted our recent "More Than Pupusas," cooking demonstration hosted in conjunction with UMBC Dining Services.
“Recipes are like an address to a homeland, but they’re also very personal to your own story,” said Karla T. Vasquez, author of The SalviSoul Cookbook, in True Grit’s Test Kitchen. Celia Bonilla, a business technology administration sophomore, grinned and nodded—the addresses for her own recipes come from El Salvador and Maryland. Bonilla joined other UMBC students earlier this fall for the “More than Pupusas” cooking demonstration, sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities, to learn how to cook Salvadoran street food.
Bonilla sat at one of two tables set with brown butcher paper with her classmates, Stephania Fonseca, a social work sophomore, and Jeffrey Molina Soriano, a computer science junior. They also have roots in Maryland and El Salvador. “Pastelitos [pah-steh-lee-tos] means little pie and it’s the Salvadoran version of empanadas [em-pah-nah-dahs],” said Vasquez. “Empanadas are well known all over Latin America. Greeks, Italians, and other Europeans make meat pies, too.”
You can read more on the UMBC Magazine website: https://umbc.edu/stories/teaching-pupusas/
The Maryland - Washington, D.C. chapter of Scholars Strategy Network invites you for current policy briefings, and to learn how you can be involved as a researcher. There will be two panel discussions, one on the 2025 Maryland General Assembly Session and one on local and national water justice initiatives. Come for either or both!
When: Friday November 8, 2024 from 10:45 a.m. - 1:20 p.m.
Where: The University of Baltimore School of Law, Angelos Law Center
1401 N. Charles Street (entrance on corner of Charles and Mt. Royal) Room 408
Check in in the lobby.
The location is a five-minute walk from Baltimore Penn Station; program is timed to coincide with the MARC train schedule from Washington Union Station. Metered street parking may be available; garage information here.
Program
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 The 2025 Maryland General Assembly Assembly: What to Expect and How to Participate as a Researcher
Moderator:
Matan Zeimer, Maryland Policy Director, Jews United for Justice
Panelists:
Ben Orr, Founder and CEO, Maryland Center on Economic Policy
Matt Hill, Attorney, Public Justice Center
Yanet Amanuel, Public Policy Director, ACLU of Maryland
Ninfa Amador-Hernandez, Research and Policy Analyst, CASA
12:00 - 12:20 Networking break
12:20 - 1:00 Water Justice: Local and National Initiatives (concurrent with lunch)
Moderator:
Jaime Lee, University of Baltimore School of Law, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Professor, and Director, Community Development Clinic
Panelists:
Mary Grant, Food & Water Watch, Public Water for All Campaign Director
David Wheaton, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Economic Justice Policy Fellow
Courtland Merkel, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Housing and Consumer Staff Attorney
1:00 - 1:20 Networking time