Posts that highlight student research, including theses and graduation projects
We know we’re a little bit late, but from all of us in the Gastronomy program, we want to wish congratulations and the best of luck to our September graduates! Anne Marie Goldberg Final project: “The Culinary Laboratory: Science & Technology in the Kitchen” Kristen Day Shelly Final project: “Recognition of Novel Colors in Fruit-Flavored […]
Alumna Kerstin McGaughey’s (MLA Gastronomy ’10) thesis was recently published as an article in UC Berkeley’s Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture. Kerstin’s work explores the ways in which identities are mediated and negotiated by bloggers on-line and through more traditional forms of culinary media. McGaughey’s work is on the cutting edge of […]
Gastronomy graduate Barbara Rotger was featured in the Boston Globe today. Barbara was interviewed about her fascinating research on recipe collections. See our recent blog post to read more about Barbara’s work and graduating project.
by Kristen Shelly When a banana with vibrant yellow skin and mottled age spots sits in the produce section, it sends a clue to the shopper that this banana is best for baking or immediate gratification. This banana will decidedly not wait for breakfast in three days. Without color, such snap decisions to eat, store, […]
by Barbara Rotger Both my grandmothers’ recipe boxes sit on top of the bookshelf in my office, and the first paper I wrote as a student in the Gastronomy program was an analysis of these, plus I few others I have acquired as a result of an eBay habit. More accurately, this first paper was […]