Category: The Senses
Potato Chips + Class
You many not think about it as you crunch your way to the bottom of the bag, but potato chip packaging says a lot about social class. In this post, I’ll tell you about how the Boston University Gastronomy Program got community members thinking about chips + class, and then share a how-to guide for…
Reminiscents: Greek Mountain Tea, Scent, and Memory
I hold the tea like a bouquet of flowers, thumbing the soft fuzz of leaves and buds clinging to brittle, woody stalks.[1] I breathe in and smell incense: the inside of a small church on Monastiraki square where I stop to light a candle; a censor waved by the German teens who dress up as…
Tasting Sweetness
The human experience of flavor, of tasting and eating, uses all of our senses. We interact with our food using every sensory mechanism in our body: most of us hear, see, feel, smell, and taste food when we eat. In this mediation, I invite you to engage your senses fully and mindfully by consuming a…
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…
Ariana Gunderson 