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Audio Recording Jake Warren Reece Holler interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, 2017-08-06

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Title

  • Jake Warren Reece Holler interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, 2017-08-06

Summary

  • Long-time food service worker, cook, barista, sourdough bagel baker, pop-up-restaurateur and food artisan Jacob ("Jake") Warren Reece Holler describes his early life outside of Westerville, Ohio; early foodways influences; interest in skateboarding and art; and entrance into back-of-house kitchen work through a high-school job at City BBQ in Gahanna, Ohio. He details his time at art school (Columbus College of Art and Design), his painting career, the re-awakening of his interest in food, teaching himself how to cook, and seeking restaurant work as a way to hone his craft. Jake describes the many upstart and scratch Columbus kitchens and food establishments where he worked--from the Cheesy Truck food truck to the North Market's Greener Grocery and the Touch of Earth Coffee Shop to The Table to Dough Mama, Alana's, and Global Gallery Coffeeshop. Jake talks about his forays into food social entrepreneurship and food as social practice, including his time as co-founder (with partner Adele Ardrey) of the "Gourmet Picnic" underground supper club in 2014; of Companion Bagel, a scratch-made sourdough bagel business and bakery at the Clintonville and Worthington farmers' markets in summer 2015 and 2016; and the Clintonville Sandwich Shop, (with fellow chef/artist and project interviewee Jeremy Purser) in 2016. Throughout the interview, Jake highlights cultures and workplace environments in the restaurant industry; wages and management issues; sourcing and sustainability in the local foods movement; and balancing his kitchen and coffee-shop work with his art career and his hobbies. Jake also discusses getting "stuck" in the restaurant industry, and voices concerns about development, gentrification, the rising costs of housing in Columbus, and his ambivalence about future directions of the industry in a rapidly-changing city.

Names

  • Holler, Jacob Warren Reece, interviewee
  • Holler, Jess Lamar Reece, interviewer
  • Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor

Created / Published

  • 2017-08-06

Headings

  • -  Holler, Jacob Warren Reece--Interviews
  • -  Employee morale
  • -  Home-based businesses
  • -  Hours of labor
  • -  Part-time employment
  • -  Quality of products
  • -  Quality of work life
  • -  Self-employed
  • -  Wages--Service industries
  • -  Coworkers
  • -  Restaurants
  • -  Food service employees--Ohio--Interviews
  • -  Restaurants--Employees--Interviews

Genre

  • Sound recordings
  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Personal narratives

Notes

  • -  Recorded at Jake's living-room table, Columbus, Ohio, August 6, 2017.
  • -  Kitchen Workers in Central Ohio: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2017-2018 (AFC 2017/020: 04384) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers.
  • -  In English.

Medium

  • 2 sound recordings (01:58:20) : digital, wav
  • 8 photographs : digital, Camera Raw, color
  • 1 manuscript : digital, pdf

Source Collection

  • Kitchen Workers in Central Ohio: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2017-2018 AFC 2017/020: 04384

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021655393

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  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

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  • audio
  • pdf

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Commercial Bookbinders: Occupational Folklife Project, 2017-2018 (AFC 2017/021), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2011-2012 (AFC 2011/062), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Dairy Farm Workers in New York's North Country: Archie Green Fellows project, 2012-2013 (AFC 2012/033), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Doctoring: The Occupational Folklore of Physicians: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2019-2020 (AFC 2019/030), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Domestic Workers United: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2015-2016 (AFC 2015/027), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Ethnic Grocers in the Urban Midwest: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2014-2015 (AFC 2013/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Finding Roots: Asian American Farmers in Contemporary America: Occupational Folklife Project, 2020-2021 (AFC 2020/014), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Fixing, Mending, Making New: North Carolina's Repair Professionals: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2020-2021 (AFC 2020/009), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Food Processing and Food Legacy Trades: Occupational Folklife Project, 2016-2017 (AFC 2015/042), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Fresh Produce Workers in Arizona: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2015-2016 (AFC 2015/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Funeral Services Workers in the Carolinas: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2016-2017 (AFC 2016/037), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Hope for Recovery: Peer Support Workers in Kentucky: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2020-2021 (AFC 2020/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Independent Professional Wrestlers in Central Appalachia: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2019-2020 (AFC 2019/029), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Personal Home Health Care Aides in Michigan: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2017-2018 (AFC 2017/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Poultry Workers of North Carolina : Archie Green Fellows Project, 2022-2023 (AFC 2022/021), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Holler, Jacob Warren Reece, Interviewee, Jess Lamar Reece Holler, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Jake Warren Reece Holler interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, -08-06. -08-06, 2017. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021655393/.

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Holler, Jacob Warren Reece, Interviewee, Jess Lamar Reece Holler, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Jake Warren Reece Holler interview conducted by Jess Lamar Reece Holler, -08-06. -08-06, 2017. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021655393/>.