Category: Outside the Classroom

A Cheesy Trip to Vermont 🧀

I can’t remember the last time that I went on a field trip. Sometimes, just the words themselves bring back for me memories of specially packed lunches, tightly packed schedules, and of course, a day off from school doing something slightly educational but often more fun than anything else. So when I found out that […]

Course Spotlight- Food Marketing

MET ML565, Food Marketing will be taught by our newest part-time faculty member Robin Cohen in Spring 2025. The class will meet on Mondays from 6 to 8:45 PM. Food Marketing applies the fundamental concepts of marketing and brand management to the food industry, with a particular focus on the New England culinary scene. The […]

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 Kelly Fernandes

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student Kelly Fernandes.  Kelly completed a project in which she created a summer program for the Food Waste course taught by Steven Finn here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Here’s Kelly’s vision for the project: In one of my reflections, I spoke about creating a summer program that would […]

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 […]