by Alex Galimberti When you go out with your friends to eat at a restaurant, do you think about the people who cooked your food? Cleaned your dishes? Set your table? When you buy ingredients at the store, do you think about the people who harvested your vegetables? Or about the person who safely packaged […]
by Emily Contois One of my favorite things on a weekend afternoon, a weekday evening—well, we can go ahead and say just about anytime—is to spend a few glorious hours of levity and escape at a museum. I’m lucky to live in Boston where world-class museums abound as plentifully as colleges and universities, but sometimes, […]
by Emily Gelsomin “Is this good for me?” As a dietitian, I get this question quite often. Yet, such simple sounding inquiries are never straightforward. Are you trying to lose weight? Improve your irritable bowel syndrome? Run a marathon? It all depends. Nutrition can easily become a complex science of food dissection. Red ripe tomatoes […]
As the news overflows with tasty morsels of food-related stories, it can be hard to stay up-to-date. In this edition of Food News Round Up you’ll be served a satisfying plate of delectable tidbits from the world of food—all in piquant present participles. Sensing Food Testing the food pairing hypothesis Researchers explore connections between […]
by Erin Powell It was a windy, snowy day in Boston for the BU viewing party of TEDx Manhattan 2012: Changing the Way We Eat, but a hearty group of brave souls made it to campus. Led by Visiting Professor Carole Counihan and Assistant Professor Rachel Black, students and fellow Bostonians alike discussed important […]