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Natalie Shmulik: From Classroom to Community Written by: Lauren Greco Professor Natalie Shmulik, who teaches MET ML 655: Launching a Food Business at Boston University’s Metropolitan College, was recently featured in The Boston Globe for her insights on the Boston Metropolitan area’s growing food entrepreneurship scene. She bridges academic guidance and real‑world innovation, helping students […]
This course begins with a simple but layered question: why leisurely travel for food? In a post-Bourdain world, what once felt like the “parts unknown” no longer exists in quite the same way. The places that Anthony Bourdain helped bring into view—once distant, unfamiliar, or outside the scope of mainstream travel—are now widely accessible, whether […]
MET ML 720A1, World Food Systems & Policy will be taught this spring by Ellen Messer, Ph.D. Anthropology. Global societies in 2025 confront major challenges to ensure that all people can feed themselves sustainable, healthy diets and enjoy basic human security in a warmer, more crowded and interconnected world threatened by climate change, global pandemics, and structural violence. Through […]
MET ML565, Food Marketing will be taught by our newest part-time faculty member Robin Cohen in Spring 2025. The class will meet on Mondays from 6 to 8:45 PM. Food Marketing applies the fundamental concepts of marketing and brand management to the food industry, with a particular focus on the New England culinary scene. The […]
MET ML 692, Culinary Tourism will be taught this Spring 2025 on Thursdays from 6:00-7:30 p.m. by José López Ganem, with a travel component to New México (United States) during the BU Spring Break ‘25. Among the higher echelons of the Food Studies canon, Lucy Long’s Culinary Tourism provides a time-proofed definition of this activity […]