VIVIAN HALLORAN: I think of it in terms of cultural - culture shock and the cultural change. citizens, yet in the book you describe yours as an immigration experience or an immigrant's experience. You were born in Puerto Rico and came here with your family. STEVE SANDERS: First tell us about your family and how you came to the United States. She's also the associate dean for diversity and inclusion of the College of Arts and Sciences, and she's author of the book that will spend some time talking about, 'The Immigrant Kitchen - Food Ethnicity and Diaspora' published by Ohio State University Press. Vivian Halloran is Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. How are the rituals and traditions of food - what we eat with family or on holidays - intertwined with our ethnicity and our culture? How do food and cooking affect the experiences and other people's perceptions about the diverse peoples who have immigrated to the United States for centuries and continue to do so today? How has the study of food and culinary traditions come to be a subject of serious academic work? And what do the principles of diversity and inclusion mean in higher education? Today we explore those and other questions with our guest on this episode of Profiles Vivian Halloran. STEVE SANDERS: Welcome to Profiles on WFIU. Overwhelmed by grief and confusion, Tate’s unsure if he can bear learning how the lives of two men entwined over the years, but he reads on anyway, discovering more to value, more to respect, and most importantly, more to love about the man who raised him.Ĭopyright: 2020 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9781646563388 Publisher: JMS Books LLC Date of Addition: 04/18/20 Copyrighted By: Vivien Dean, Rick R.(SOUNBITE OF BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES’ “BLU-BOP”)

So when his father’s old college buddy, Randy, approaches him after the service, Tate expects to hear echoes of the same.Instead, he gets a lifetime’s worth of letters that tell a different tale and cause him to view his father - and his family - in a whole new light.The truth, about a secret romance kept buried for decades, astonishes him. Everyone at the funeral shared the same glowing stories of a kind soul.

Tate D’Angelo always thought he knew who his father was: beloved doctor, devoted husband and father.

Family Obligations by Vivien Dean