Last May, my family joined the Cotuit Civic Association in a roadside clean-up of our hometown. We walked up one side and back down the other of a well-traveled road, trash bags in hand, and picked up the litter that had accumulated over the course of the year. We couldn’t help but be astonished by…
Category: From the Field
Sign Language Frappé
The very first lesson in my Greek Sign Language class was how to order coffee. My standard order at the time was “frappé, sweet with milk:” a frothy instant coffee beverage practically synonymous with Greek café life. The fact that coffee was our first lesson did not surprise me one bit – my coffee order…
Team Fieldwork: Oyster Eating
Tasting and eating are important methods for my research, and I’ve made sure that eating oysters forms a part of my research on climate change and oyster farming on Cape Cod for BU’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. That fieldwork continued this week at a team effort oyster tasting with another…
Place and Time in Food Memory: Reliving the AFHVS / ASFS 2018 Panel
I’m still basking in the glow of chairing and presenting on my first panel at an academic conference – the joint annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society. The panel topic was Place and Time in Food Memory: Migration and Nostalgia, and I…
Tips for Attending Your First Food Studies Conference
Last weekend, I attended the AFHVS / ASFS 2018 Annual Conference, one of the biggest food studies conferences in the United States. I attended as a student member of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. This was my first time attending this conference, and my first time presenting at an academic conference,…
Ariana Gunderson 