Got Food? Got History? Go Public. Food and Public History (ML623), Spring 2020 In Food and Public History (4 cr), we will examine interpretive foodways programs from museums, living history museums, folklore/folklife programs, as well as culinary tourism offerings, “historical” food festivals, and food tours. Our goal is to compare different approaches to teaching the […]
Please join us for this special event! Tuesday, December 3, 2019 6 pm to 8 pm Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering (CILSE), room 106B 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA Panelist include Cynthia Graber – Gastropod Sara Joyner and Kaitlin Keleher – Proof, from America’s Test Kitchen John Rudolph – Feet in 2 Worlds […]
We continue our introductions to student who will be joining the Gastronomy Program this fall with these three bios. Victoria Collins grew up moving around the globe (Missouri, Maine, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, South Carolina, Dominica, and Spain). Throughout her travels, she developed a deep passion for food, culture, and history. After graduating from Drake […]
Dr. Ellen Messer teaches Food Policy classes in the Gastronomy Program and has prepared this overview of her classes. NYT front page headline news asserts “Climate Change Threatens the World Food Supply, UN Warns” by Christopher Flavell, 8 Aug19). But how do agricultural and nutritional policies contribute to causation and potential mitigation? Can better […]
We continue our introductions to student who will be joining the Gastronomy Program this fall with these four bios. Danielle Jacques spent her childhood jumping on hay bales at her grandparents’ dairy farm in Maine. Too busy dunking homemade cookies in fresh milk, she never realized the hardships of small-scale farming and was shocked […]