Category: Gastronomy at BU

Posts about the general gastronomy program at BU – sponsored lecture series, faculty and staff news, etc.

Fall 2021 Pépin Lecture Series in Food Studies & Gastronomy

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Fall 2020 lectures will be presented in webinar format. Registration is free and open to the public: please follow the link for each program to register. Cheffes de Cuisine: Women and Work in the Professional French Kitchen Rachel Black, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department Connecticut College Though women enter France’s culinary professions at higher rates than […]

New Gastronomy and Food Studies Students, Fall 2021 part 3

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We look forward to welcoming a wonderful group of new students into our programs this fall. Enjoy getting to know a few of them here. Dedicated to closing the gap of achieving higher education, Melvin Nguyen has served as a College Access Mentor for Breakthrough New York, Let’s Get Ready, and Strive for College to […]

New Gastronomy and Food Studies Students, Fall 2021 part 2

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We look forward to welcoming a wonderful group of new students into our programs this fall. Enjoy getting to know a few of them here. Emma Campbell was raised in a suburb south of Boston and spent almost every Sunday of her childhood going to Sunday dinner at her grandmother’s house. This tradition and the […]

Gastronomy Students, Faculty and Alumni to speak at 2021 Food Studies Conference

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Just Food: because it is never Just Food, the 2021 Joint Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS); the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS); the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS); and the The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) will run from June […]

Living Landscapes:

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A Conference Using Foraging to Explore the Intersections of Environmental Stewardship, Racial Justice & Food Sovereignty Join the Boston University Gastronomy community for in-depth discussions and (remote) hands-on foraging experiences! Since the start of the pandemic, the connections between environmental racism, climate change, land (in)access, social justice, and food sovereignty have become clearer than ever. […]