Tag: gastronomy curriculum

Gastronomy for Good: Daily Table’s Mission-Based Gastronomy

Today, we are highlighting more work from students in Steven Finn’s course: MET ML626 – Food Waste: Scope, Scale, and Signals for Sustainable Change. This is another post from Megan Perlman.   Traditional notions of gastronomy may conjure up a vision of white-toqued students making milles-feuilles, a critic with a notepad at a fancy restaurant, […]

From Global to Individual: Getting Personal with Food Waste

Today, we are highlighting work from students in Steven Finn’s course: MET ML626 – Food Waste: Scope, Scale, and Signals for Sustainable Change. This post comes from Emily Shawn.  But I don’t contribute to the global food waste problem, right? I’m not the one throwing away my meals and clogging up landfills. Am I? Household waste matters, and way […]

Saving the Planet in a Tasty(?) Way: Eat Bugs

Today, we are highlighting work from students in Steven Finn’s course: MET ML626 – Food Waste: Scope, Scale, and Signals for Sustainable Change. This post comes from Megan Perlman.  With the world’s population forecast to reach nine billion by 2050, food production will have to nearly double to keep up. Yet our planet simply cannot […]

Commonwealth Kitchen: Innovating for a Sustainable, Equitable Food System

Today, we are highlighting work from students in Steven Finn’s course: MET ML626 – Food Waste: Scope, Scale, and Signals for Sustainable Change. This post comes from Sarah Thompson.  If you are in Massachusetts, chances are, sipping on Madhrasi Chai, snacking on GRIA nuts, or dining at Clover Food Lab, you have enjoyed the fruits […]

Course Profile: Cultural Tourism

Anyone in the BU Gastronomy program is aware of just how popular food has become within the past decade. The advent of the “foodie” has meant that more and more people are paying closer attention to what they eat and food has become more than just a means for sustenance but a form leisure activity. […]