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[[Image:Stairway Balch Hall.JPG|left|250px|thumb|A stairway in the Balch courtyard]] |
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Fried Chicken and the World |
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In 1920, Cornell founded a committee to research the feasibility of constructing a new women's dormitory to meet the needs of the growing community. In 1922, Frederick Ackerman submitted a basic plot for the construction of a dormitory on [[Cornell North Campus|North Campus]] and, with approval of the University's Architectural Advisory Board, began seeking donors with the promise that Cornell would pay for up to half of the building's construction. In 1928, the University accepted the $1,650,000 donation of Allen C. Balch '1889 and Janet Balch, a graduate student from 1886-88. When Balch opened in September 1929, it became the third female [[residential college]] at Cornell, after [[Sage Residential College|Sage College]] and [[Risley Residential College|Risley Hall]]. |
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Of course like most food the possibilities for seasoning combinations are basically infinite. Southern fried chicken can be prepared with the addition of many different seasonings that can evoke the cuisines of the world. Ingredients like curry powder, Chinese five spice, sesame seeds, and tandoori powder convey distinct Asian flavors not common to traditional fried chicken. While those unique creations are technically fried chicken, they are generally represented by their dominant flavor (i.e. five spice fried chicken) and are presented as distinct (either in homes or on menu's) from fried chicken. |
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Not only has fried chicken spread around the world, with the restaurant chain/franchiser KFC as one of the spearheads, but the spread of industrialized poultry production in conjunction with the increased use of rapid weight gain broiler chickens has caused an increase in global chicken consumption. This has led to countries creating their own distinct forms of fried chicken, utilizing cutting methods, ingredients, and techniques found in their culture's culinary repertoires. Though while still chicken and still fried, those preparations are not fried chicken. |
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To this day, as the Balches requested, the dormitory has remained an all-female dormitory. |
To this day, as the Balches requested, the dormitory has remained an all-female dormitory. |
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Revision as of 21:40, 6 March 2010
Balch Hall is the only remaining all-female dormitory on the North Campus of Cornell University. Technically, Balch Hall consists of four eighty-student halls, hence the more accurate name the Balch Halls, which has fallen out of use.
History
Fried Chicken and the World Of course like most food the possibilities for seasoning combinations are basically infinite. Southern fried chicken can be prepared with the addition of many different seasonings that can evoke the cuisines of the world. Ingredients like curry powder, Chinese five spice, sesame seeds, and tandoori powder convey distinct Asian flavors not common to traditional fried chicken. While those unique creations are technically fried chicken, they are generally represented by their dominant flavor (i.e. five spice fried chicken) and are presented as distinct (either in homes or on menu's) from fried chicken.
Not only has fried chicken spread around the world, with the restaurant chain/franchiser KFC as one of the spearheads, but the spread of industrialized poultry production in conjunction with the increased use of rapid weight gain broiler chickens has caused an increase in global chicken consumption. This has led to countries creating their own distinct forms of fried chicken, utilizing cutting methods, ingredients, and techniques found in their culture's culinary repertoires. Though while still chicken and still fried, those preparations are not fried chicken.
To this day, as the Balches requested, the dormitory has remained an all-female dormitory.
Facilities
On North Campus, Balch stands out for its majestic English Renaissance style. Originally, each of the four halls were decorated differently in "Early American, Georgian, English Jacobean, and modern Grammercy Park"[1]. At the end of Spring 2000 semester, the dining hall was closed and has been converted into a student center, cafe, and lecture hall known as the Carol Tatkon Center.[2] The dorm rooms are unique in that each has its own working sink.
In popular culture
Balch Hall (or a model of it) was used in the film Love Potion No. 9 when Paul, the male lead character, uses the potion to take advantage of the all female dormitory. This section of the film shows lights in different rooms turning on and off to the sounds of Beethoven's 5th Symphony as he "visits" the different women. Paul is quickly arrested for this disturbance.
References
- ^ Cornell Alumni News. October 3, 1929.
{{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ http://ri.campuslife.cornell.edu/fs8.html
