Food Studies
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Food Studies: From trimmings to terrine
Food Studies features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and agriculture-related programs at universities around the world. You can explore the full series here. Who wouldn’t be turned off by forcemeat? The name alone sounds pretty gross. When it was time to focus on these cold, repurposed meat preparations […]
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Food Studies: Deconstructing Big Food
Photo: Krystian OlszanskiFood Studies features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and agriculture-related programs at universities around the world. You can explore the full series here. I’m in a food systems class this semester that is focused on the complex way that food moves from farm to plate (which […]
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Food Studies: Post-communist pork, the Goat Whisperer, and other stories from the field
Mangalica pigs in Hungary. Food Studies features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and agriculture-related programs at universities around the world. You can explore the full series here. Over the past few months I’ve visited food producers, large and small, all over Europe. I’ve been behind the scenes on […]
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Food Studies: Canvolution!
Canning is hip again, a century after it first caught on -- but for very different reasons.
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Food Studies: The life of an airline chef
Meet the people behind the plastic trays.
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Food Studies: the taste-testers' blind spots
Why taste tests conducted in controlled environments don’t tell the whole story.
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Food Studies: Try this at-home smell training course
Want to talk about wine without sounding like a snob? Grab some oak chips and butter extract and try this sensory exercise yourself.
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Food Studies: future terroir
What can the taste of place mean in a country only three and half times bigger than Washington D.C.?
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Food Studies: the science of cookie texture
Water activity and moisture migration sound complex, but make all the difference between chewy and crispy cookies.
