Category: Students

For student profiles, specific student achievements, projects, awards, and activities.

Sebastian Crissey’s Article in The Chronical!

Check out the published work by one of our current graduate students, Sebastian Crissey. Sebastian takes a walk down memory lane with his mother as they discuss 20th century supermarket shopping for this ethnographic study. https://www.thechronicle.com/news/a-willimantic-history-of-food-shopping-all-the-way-back-to-1970s/article_74c7f655-71aa-4557-a892-56b4057affd3.html.

Julia Child Student Writing Award

The Gastronomy Department is proud to announce that Amy Phuong has been awarded this year’s Julia Child Student Writing Award. This award is given to matriculating MA students in Gastronomy and honors their outstanding academic work. Below is a Q&A with Amy on her award-winning work that uses food mapping– a technique that allows researchers […]

Student Work Highlight – Francesca Furey

This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student Francesca Furey who recreated a historical recipe as a part of Dr. Karen Metheny’s Cookbooks and History class this past semester. Recreating Halibut Chowder from 1923 Forget deviled eggs, charcuterie boards, and savory dips this holiday season. Could soup be the star of a social hour? […]

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 […]