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Commensality at the Lunch Table

The next in our series of posts from Summer Term course, Anthropology of Food (MET ML 641) is from Gastronomy student Meghan Russell. If you read popular newspapers or magazines, you may have seen that the American lunch hour is being threatened. More and more Americans are working through their lunch hour, skipping it altogether, […]

Explore the Art and Craft of Japanese Culinary Tools

We continue with our series of posts from Students in Dr. Karen Metheny’s Summer Term course, Anthropology of Food (MET ML 641) . The Fuller Craft Museum in Brocton, MA, is currently exhibiting Objects of Use and Beauty: Design and Craft in Japanese Culinary Tools. The exhibition has been curated by Debra Samuels and Merry […]

Fika: Taking a Break in Sweden

Students in Dr. Karen Metheny’s Summer Term course, Anthropology of Food (MET ML 641) are contributing guest posts this month. Today’s post is from Norma Tentori.     During discussions and readings in Anthropology of Food, the class delved into many different human cultures and their social traditions that surround food. A topic I found […]

Recreating the Taste of Mexico in a Crowded Cambridge Kitchen

Students in Dr. Karen Metheny’s Summer Term course, Anthropology of Food (MET ML 641) are contributing guest posts this month. Today’s post is from Sam Dolph. In April, my partner and I decided to  finally take the frozen banana leaves out of our freezer—purchased many months before —and to dedicate a whole day to making […]

Reflections from the 2018 AFHVS/ASFS Conference

We’re back from the big annual food conference, hosted this year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference is hosted by two academic organizations: The Agriculture Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (hence, the conference is called AFHVS / ASFS).  Current BU Gastronomy students attended and […]