The first pea soup I ever ate was George Washington’s pea soup. I’ve never had much of a taste for anyone else’s. On one of multiple summer road trips to Virginia, my family toured Mount Vernon, the beautiful historic home of the first American president George Washington. Rather unsurprisingly, when perusing the gift shop, I...
Author: Carmel Kookogey (Carmel Kookogey)
Hillsdale students, you are not martyrs
Hillsdale students of all stripes agree: we didn’t choose the easy road. You go home over break and your friends at state schools complain about difficult classes or tough humanities professors, and the voice in your head — however small — says, “Sure, but not Hillsdale tough.” When they complain about the weather, you think...
Great Cookbooks: Hepburn’s ‘liberation in a candy bar’
Audrey Hepburn was known for many things. In 1953, the Dutch legend-to-be made her first memorable movie appearance as an undercover heiress, racing across the cobblestone streets of Rome on a motorcycle with a journalist (Gregory Peck) in “Roman Holiday”. In 1961, she made fashion history in her role as Holly Golightly, the solemn escort...
A conversation with American author Dennis Covington
Dennis Covington was born in 1948 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In college, he studied under American short story writer Peter Taylor at the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. Covington was drafted upon graduation, and served two years in the U.S. Army before entering the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, whose...
‘Necessary Society’: Junior hosts dinner parties to ask cultural questions
Thud. Thud. Thud. It’s Friday night and Reagan Cool is making seven pizzas. The herb-seasoned dough makes another thud against the counter as she pushes in her rolling pin. When junior Reagan Cool went to Washington, D.C., in the fall, as a part of the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program, she was thinking about intentionality. Having been...