May 8

LATFC will end Friday, May 8. I learned this from a nice email from J. Michael Floyd, executive director of food services at UGA.

Below, some info on the new place:

The new faculty/staff/student cafe operation in the new Tate renovation named "The Taste of Home Cafe" will be open prior to the beginning of Fall semester. At this time we have not finalize this date yet. There will be two food operations opening in the new Tate center- "Tate Cafe" and the "Taste of Home Cafe".

The Taste of Home cafe will feature recipes that we have received over the last 21 years from student's parents for our Taste of Home special event in the Dining Commons.

More later on plans to commemorate the final meal at our favorite faculty center on the UGA campus that is located across the street from Grady and serves lemon bars a couple of times a week.

Email Response -- Not

I emailed the food services folks to ask what the final day of the Faculty Center would be. That was a week or so ago.

Still no response.

Either they don't read email, they don't respond to email, they don't know, or they don't care. But some of us do. It'll be a going-away party for the place, a last chance at Zen of Lem(on), an opportunity to sit and dread having to eat in a mall-like food court with (gasp!) students, spending way too much money for lunch.

I'll email someone else at the food services mother ship this week and try to get a last date. Some reports have it June 1, end of Maymester, but they might sneak it in at the last day of Spring semester and not tell us. That'd be the UGA way.

Stay tuned, LATFC fans. Once we know the day, party planning begins.

BDC

Two of the three members of the BDC (best damn curriculum?) committee were present today at LATFC (along with Hollander and Russell).

Johnson, a proud BDCer along with Hume, passed on the lemon bar. After having the perfect bar last week he didn't dare risk having another. Good thing. I found the bar lacking and Russell ate only one of the two generously provided in the clear plastic case. The leftover may escape and become a free range lemon bar.

Some talk of a Grady Recipe Book, and how lemon bars will deserve their own chapter.

BDC actually stands for Bile Distillation Committee. It's a long story.