Wrap up the semester with these awesome events and lectures! WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5 The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center presents the “Friends Speaker Series” with award winning chef and author Jacques Pepin. Join Jacques in a lecture, reception, and book signing. This event is free to students with a BU ID. 6 pm, Metcalf Ballroom GSU, 775 Commonwealth […]
This is the second in a two-part series on the fall 2012 course, Culture & Cuisine: Québec. Read part 1 here. by Brad Jones In the course of the trip we did get the opportunity to experience a great variety of more formal sites of education. But thinking back on it we never once attended […]
This is the first in a two-part series on the fall 2012 course, Culture & Cuisine: Québec. by Brad Jones Sitting around the long supper table of Pastaga, Alex Cruz from the Societe Orignal suggested that “to end a sentence in a question mark is the ultimate sign of intelligence.” I must say that I […]
by Lucia Austria Barbara Rotger knows that there is more you can learn from a recipe than just how to cook a Thanksgiving turkey, or the best pecan pie. Cookbooks have been a focus of research for cultural studies scholars, picking apart recipes to understand the diet of a particular society. In her November 6th […]
By M. Ruth Dike Have you ever thought about the fork? Darra Goldstein has. On Monday, October 22nd, as part of the “Pépin Lecture Series” sponsored by BU’s Program for Wine, Food, & the Arts, Goldstein, founding editor of food journal Gastronomica gave an excellent lecture on the “Progress of the Fork: From Diabolical to Divine.” Goldstein began by […]