Camp Food Fills More Than Bellies

Chaos rules, but dining halls offera taste of life away from home.

by Zan Romanoff, Contributing Writer

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/cover_story/article/camp_food_fills_more_than_bellies_20090729/

Camp is just a polite word for controlled chaos. Adults mind adolescents minding children, and everyone is not just permitted but encouraged to sing and scream and bang on tables. This is particularly true at mealtimes in overnight camps, when the animals come to feed, and there are prayers as well as songs, and the entire camp community is assembled as audience to the cheers of particular bunks and units. To witness a camp at its feed is to come to an entirely new understanding of the very notion of disorder.

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