posts describing courses
Read on for a sneak peek into some of the Gastronomy classes we will be offering this Spring. Registration information can be found here. Food and Art Laura Ziman will teach Food and Art during the Spring 2018 semester and has prepared this Course Spotlight. Looking at the earliest images, tableware and sculpture of food from […]
We continue our series of posts from the Anthropology of Food class (ML 641) in which students reflect on current issues, discuss assignments they have worked on, or address topics of particular interest to them. Today’s post is from Kaitlin Valli. When I first started looking into Kazakhstan for my final project, I wasn’t sure what […]
Dr. Karen Metheny will teach Food and Society (MET ML 712) on Thursday evenings during the fall 2017 semester, and has prepared this overview of the class. »How do social institutions shape the way we think about food? Our ability to access food? »How do work schedules and family dynamics shape or constrain the family […]
Gastronomy Student Celine Glasier shares this post in our series “Perspectives from Anthropology of Food.” My grandmother lives in a very small town in the south of France called Montauroux. It’s a little, quaint community that is nestled on top of a hill. There are outdoor cafes in the town center where elderly men […]
Gastronomy student Corrine Williams provides another example of food mapping in our next post in our series “Perspectives from Anthropology of Food.” In the age of the internet, social media seems to gain more cultural significance every second. Images have always been integral to media, and with Instagram’s popularity it’s clear people enjoy the content. […]