Category: Food Culture & History

Posts about food culture and food history – includes student projects, research, and publications – events, courses, etc.

Course Spotlight- Culinary Tourism

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 […]

Student Work Wednesday- Featuring Sarah Thompson

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy graduate, Sarah Thompson. Sarah completed a project in which she recreated a historical recipe for the Cookbooks and History course taught by Karen Metheny here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. The Nameless Cake The Nameless Cake—I feel kind of bad for this cake because in Malinda Russell’s […]

Student Work Wednesday- Featuring Nicole Baker

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student, Nicole Baker. Nicole completed a project in which she recreated a historical recipe for the Cookbooks and History course taught by Karen Metheny here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Sutton’s Island’s Corn Cake of 1889 How does one recreate a recipe from 1889 with little to […]

Student Work Wednesday- Featuring Celeste Femia

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student Celeste Femia. Celeste completed a project in which she recreated a historical recipe for the Cookbooks and History course taught by Karen Metheny here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Recreating a 19th Century Orange Fritter In my search to find a historical recipe for recreation, I stumbled […]

Course Spotlight: Urban Agriculture

Urban Agriculture Urban Planning and Food Studies MET ML 714 A1 (Summer 2- 2023)   Course Description: Climate change demands immediate action and, to withstand altered temperatures, people need to eat healthy food and be active.  Lessening drought in Africa or reducing food shipments are tasks beyond the reach of citizens but, with close-to-home urban […]