When it was time to write her summer essay, Mary Moore recollected the chicken backs.
Moore is one of 12 adults in Meals and Memories, a summerlong class designed to hone writing skills with essays based on memories of food, cooking and sharing. The students, who will read from their collections at 6 p.m. Friday at the South Madison Branch Library, are all graduates of the 7-year-old Odyssey Project, a UW-Madison humanities course for adults facing economic barriers to higher education.