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 […]
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 […]
“Those in closest proximity to structural ‘power’ shape our food, body, and health beliefs.” – Patrilie Hernandez, Founder of Embody Lib. Fat studies meets food studies in a recently revised course. MET ML613 – Debating Diet, will be taught online in Spring 2025 by Catie Duckworth. Course Description: “Diet” hails from the Greek word “diaita” […]
This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy graduate, Sarah Thompson. Sarah completed a project in which she recreated a historical recipe for the Cookbooks and History course taught by Karen Metheny here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. The Nameless Cake The Nameless Cake—I feel kind of bad for this cake because in Malinda Russell’s […]
This week we’re highlighting the work of Gastronomy student Celeste Femia. Celeste completed a project in which she recreated a historical recipe for the Cookbooks and History course taught by Karen Metheny here at Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Recreating a 19th Century Orange Fritter In my search to find a historical recipe for recreation, I stumbled […]