Category: Outside the Classroom

Sustaining Stillman’s: Turning a Profit at the Boston Public Market

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Gastronomy student Kendall Vanderslice shares a story on Kate Stillman, owner of Stillman’s Quality Meats, opening a stall at the Boston Public Market

Tags: Boston Public Market, Kate Stillman, kendall vanderslice, Massachusetts' Farmer's Market Association, Stillman's Farm, Stillman's Quality Meats, value-added products

Sampling Scientific Cooking with Kenji Lopez-Alt at Harvest in Cambridge

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By Jerrelle Guy A private luncheon was held at the historic Harvest restaurant in Harvard square on Monday, October 26th, and a few people from the Gastronomy program attended. You all remember Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt from his column in Serious Eats, right? Well, Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt has taken his M.I.T. degree and brought that proficiency […]

Tags: Harvard Square, Harvest Restaurant, Jerrelle Guy, Kenji Lopez-Alt, science-based cooking techniques, Serious Eats, The Food Lab

Butchering Lamb at Lightning Ridge

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By Lindsey Barrett After a sunny forty-five minute Sunday drive from Boston to Sherborn, Mass., my Sous Chef Josh Turka and I arrived at a small white poster paper sign with a thin black arrow pointing us to 38A Bullard Street. The narrow gravel path, surrounded by thick green brush, opened up to a single-story […]

Tags: Boston Chefs, Jacks Abby, Lightning Ridge Farm, Lindsey Barrett, Savenour's, The Salty Pig

Course Spotlight: Food and Gender

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Dr. Karen Metheny will be teaching Food and Gender during the Fall 2015 term. This 4-credit course takes an anthropological, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary approach to the study of food and gender, looking at how masculinity and femininity are defined through beliefs and practices surrounding food and body. Students will engage in a semester-long research project […]

GSA End of Semester Fiesta

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The semester is over, some of us are graduating, and we say goodbye to a long, hard winter as we welcome the warmer weather. Join the Gastronomy Students Association in celebrating all of this, as well as anything else you might want to raise a glass to, at the End of Semester Potluck Party on […]