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Gastronomy Faculty Member Merry White’s New Book: Coffee Life in Japan

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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 […]

Gastronomy Professor Rachel Black’s New Book | Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market

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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 […]