by Mayling Chung At the Boston Tree Party’s inauguration this past Sunday, somebody from the crowd shouted, “Live tree or die!” and many people replied with laughter. The person’s play on words and its reception really fit what we were gathered there for: the ceremonial kick-off of the Boston Tree Party, a project that creatively […]
by Barbara Rotger Both my grandmothers’ recipe boxes sit on top of the bookshelf in my office, and the first paper I wrote as a student in the Gastronomy program was an analysis of these, plus I few others I have acquired as a result of an eBay habit. More accurately, this first paper was […]
From around the web this week, a few bites of food news. Feel free to comment with thoughts, reactions, or anything else of interest. Boston food bank aims to narrow ‘meal gap’ Learning about beef from America’s first cookbook Recent donation to NYU’s Fales Library makes it one of the largest food-related collections in the […]
by Khalilah Ramdene While a diet rich in ramen noodles may be the stereotypical grad school diet, it’s unlikely you’ll find a Gastronomy student sticking to this tradition. That is, unless they made the ramen themselves or had it at a spot in Chinatown. This past Sunday, a group of Gastronomy students and faculty gathered […]
by Chris Malloy Until I saw the email, my plan was to read in bed. Hey Chris, Jon noticed a couple of mistakes in your piece on salmon handling. Could you check in with him and see if you can get those corrected? It was a frosty morning, one that capped a busy week, and […]