Category: Alumni

Allison Carroll Duffy’s Canning Workshop

by Meg Jones Wall On a freezing October night, while we slowly watched the cold rain turn into snow, a little group of food enthusiasts and Gastronomy students gathered with Allison Carroll Duffy to learn more about canning jellies, jams and marmalades. While some of us were canning for the first time and others were […]

Congratulations to our September Graduates!

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 Profile: Joyce Lock

Gastronomy Alumna, Joyce Lock, never played a trivia game she could win but longed for a day when she could demonstrate her true trivia talent; not through history or pop culture but through a topic she was passionate about–if only there was a game about food and wine! This wish became a reality during Lock’s […]

Food in Binary: Identity and Interaction in Two German Food Blogs

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 […]