We sincerely congratulate Dr. Rachel Black, Assistant Professor and Gastronomy Program Coordinator, who was presented the Association for the Study of Food and Society’s Food Studies Pedagogy Award at the annual conference this past weekend. The ASFS Food Studies Pedagogy Award recognizes instructors and courses that use innovative and successful pedagogical techniques to reach students. Black […]
Merry White, a Professor of Anthropology who also teaches in the Gastronomy Program, has a new book available now: This fascinating book–part ethnography, part memoir–traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian […]
Rachel Black, Assistant Professor and Gastronomy Program Coordinator, has a new book available now: In an age of supermarkets and online commerce, markets offer unique social and cultural opportunities and bring together urban and rural worldviews. While often overlooked in traditional economic studies of food distribution, anthropologist Rachel Black contends that social relations are essential for […]