by Danielle Ceribo and Lucia Austria It’s a given that incoming gastronomy students have a passion for food, but how do students about to finish the program take their experiences and change their food passion into a food movement? Students who finish the program with a thesis paper write about something close to their heart, […]
by Emily Contois Sandwiched between the re-launch of the BU Gastronomy Garden Club and the 2012 Boston Marathon was the Language of Food Conference, April 13-14 at Cornell University. Directed by Diana Garvin and co-sponsored by more than a dozen university departments and local food purveyors, the conference employed a variety of perspectives to explore […]
As the spring semester comes to a close, we know you’re already chomping at the bit for summer classes. Summer 1 kicks off May 21 and concludes June 28. The following fabulous courses still have space: ARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD IN ANCIENT TIMES (MET ML 611) Course Summary: Beginning with early humans up to early farmers, the […]
by Allison Schultz It was ten a.m. on a Saturday morning, and I was raring to go—hiking boots? Camera? Check. Rather than blissfully slumbering through the early hours of what felt like my first week off in a long time, I was sitting in the tiny gift shop at the Tyler Arboretum in Delaware County, […]
by Emily Contois | photos by Katherine “KC” Hysmith and Rudolf Manabat As students in Dr. Ken Albala’s Survey of Food History class (ML 622), we were overjoyed that the Food and the City Conference brought him to Boston not only to deliver the conference keynote, but to allow us the opportunity to meet him […]