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 […]
Congratulations are due to Sashanna Caldwell, Perrin Long, John Pladocostante and Barbara Rotger, who received the Master in Liberal Arts in Gastronomy at last night’s Metropolitan College Commencement ceremony. We take our hats off to you.
by Erin Carlman Weber When Karoline Boehm-Goodnick took a sharp detour from her plan to be a lawyer, she encountered some accurate pessimists. “Everyone was so negative when I told them I was going to culinary school. And everything they said—that you’re not going to make any money, that you always have to work holidays—it’s […]
by Khalilah Ramdene What does it take to grow a successful food business? Ask Gastronomy alum Irene Costello, and she’ll tell you it requires dedication to an idea and not being afraid to ask for help. Costello is one half of Effie’s Homemade, a successful packaged food company that has garnered a list of impressive […]