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…
Tag: Food Studies Activity
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to his dinner companions at a recent Nostalgia Dinner.* This idea bubbled up when we realized that every dish was originally made for the participant who brought it by a female caregiver.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 