by Barbara Rotger Like family bibles and favorite children’s books, cookbooks are often singled out in the home for special treatment. They are kept separately from other books, passed down from generation to generation, with each caretaker inscribing his or her own name within it. However, unlike other treasured volumes, users regularly mark these texts […]
Members of the Gastronomy Community and the public are invited to a lecture by Dr. Helle Brønnum Carlsen on Taste and Judgment as a Key to Becoming a Responsible and Enjoying Eater (Food “Bildung”). Dr. Carlsen will discuss an aesthetic approach to food, and how food knowledge and attitudes concerning foods (food Bildung, or food […]
Dr. Karen Metheny will be teaching Food and Gender during the Fall 2015 term. This 4-credit course takes an anthropological, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of food and gender, looking at how masculinity and femininity are defined through beliefs and practices surrounding food and body. Students will engage in a semester-long research project […]
Our Back-to-School series continues with four more new-student introductions. We are looking forward to meeting everyone in classes, starting September 2, 2015. Louise Beck Brønnum will be coming to Boston University for the Fall 2015 semester as an exchange student from Copenhagen University, where she is studying Food Innovation and Health. At Copenhagen University she […]
It is back to school season! Classes in Boston University’s Gastronomy program begin on September 2, 2015. Here is your next batch of introductions to some of the new students joining the Gastronomy Program for the Fall 2015 Semester. John Kramer, a Texas native, became interested in the study of anthropology during a year spent […]