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…
Tag: Eating is Learning
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…
Eating is Learning: Oysters
From my first class at Boston University’s program in Gastronomy, one of my core research principles has been that eating is learning. There are many ways to conduct food studies field work, and I respect researchers who retain dietary preferences of any kind in the field. But in my field work, I choose to incorporate eating…
DonutPoetry Project
In the fall of 2017, I created a collaborative Instagram project on Donuts and Poetry. After taking a picture of a donut, the collaborator would write a poem about their experience eating the donut. With this project, I aimed to get people thinking and writing about their food, and demonstrate how much there it to…
Is Food Nostalgia Inherently Feminine?
Is food nostalgia inherently feminine? Matt posed this question to his dinner companions at a recent Nostalgia Dinner.* This idea bubbled up when we realized that every dish was originally made for the participant who brought it by a female caregiver. Nana’s polenta, and Aunt’s pasta piselli, a grandmother’s manicotti: each dish was a comfort…
Ariana Gunderson 