This post was written by current student Hannah Spiegelman. Read more of her work here. Happy Halloween season, fellow gastronauts! Many assume that Halloween’s food connections start at candy and end at pumpkins, but I like to dispel that belief. This season, I created a handful of spooky-themed ice cream flavors inspired by history and literature. If […]
We continue our introductions to student who will be joining the Gastronomy Program this fall with these three bios. Victoria Collins grew up moving around the globe (Missouri, Maine, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, South Carolina, Dominica, and Spain). Throughout her travels, she developed a deep passion for food, culture, and history. After graduating from Drake […]
Dr. Ellen Messer teaches Food Policy classes in the Gastronomy Program and has prepared this overview of her classes. NYT front page headline news asserts “Climate Change Threatens the World Food Supply, UN Warns” by Christopher Flavell, 8 Aug19). But how do agricultural and nutritional policies contribute to causation and potential mitigation? Can better […]
We continue our introductions to student who will be joining the Gastronomy Program this fall with these four bios. Danielle Jacques spent her childhood jumping on hay bales at her grandparents’ dairy farm in Maine. Too busy dunking homemade cookies in fresh milk, she never realized the hardships of small-scale farming and was shocked […]
Programs in the Pépin Lecture Series in Food Studies & Gastronomy are free and open to the public, but registration is requested. We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God With author Kendall Vanderslice The gospel story is filled with meals. It opens in a garden and ends in a feast. […]