Tag: Marx

Decoding Alternative Food Communities

in Academics, Food Business, Food Systems, Gastronomy at BU, Outside the Classroom, Research, Students 0 comments

by Ariel Knoebel I stared down at the entangled green tendrils in the dirt, thinking to myself “What is tatsoi, anyway?” I was embarrassed to ask. Everyone else seemed to know exactly what they were doing as they crouched between the rows of bushy greens, chatting while weeding with expert hands until perfectly straight rows […]

Tags: Farmers, Food Communities, Food Studies, Marx, Master's Thesis

Wedding Cakes, Congealed Precedent, and that time I wrote a thesis

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by Lucy Valena From my first semester in the gastronomy program, I’d pretty much decided I would write a thesis. As a project-oriented person hoping to do independent academic writing in the future, it seemed like a good challenge that would help me prepare for the next step in my career. Additionally, I was feeling […]

Tags: food history, Marx, Master's Thesis, wedding cakes