by Emily Contois If you’re like me, you’re currently working (and perhaps panicking a little) to craft compelling theses for your final term papers. This time in the semester tends to also coincide with more time than usual spent on Facebook and Twitter, as we procrastinate and somehow buy into the admittedly insane premise that […]
by Emily Contois Welcome, gastronomes and cowboys alike, to this action-oriented (and alluringly alliterative) edition of Food News Round Up. Part of the news process is indeed passive — the pleasant and oft solitary experience of soaking up the news via paper or screen. But what is so key with food, is the desire to […]
Today marks the beginning of the Spring Break holiday at Boston University, so we’ll hope that at least some of you are reading this week’s Food News Round Up from a white sandy beach somewhere. No matter where you are, may you enjoy chewing on this smattering of food news focusing on systems, conflicts, trends, […]
If you didn’t watch the Oscars last night, you might have missed that The Muppets won for Original Song. And any Muppet lover knows that Jim Henson is also responsible for the characters of Sesame Street. In a, we’ll admit, slightly bizarre six-degrees-of-separation-kind-of-way, that explains why we’re doing Food News Round Up Sesame Street-style this week. […]
by Emily Contois One of my favorite things on a weekend afternoon, a weekday evening—well, we can go ahead and say just about anytime—is to spend a few glorious hours of levity and escape at a museum. I’m lucky to live in Boston where world-class museums abound as plentifully as colleges and universities, but sometimes, […]