New Food Archeology Encyclopedia from Gastronomy Professors Comes “Highly Recommended”
MET Gastronomy instructors and anthropologists Mary Beaudry and Karen Metheny edited “Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia,” the first reference work devoted to the study of food and foodways through archaeology, which is now being lauded for its ability to help students “understand the complexity of what may first appear to be a simple subject—the food […]
The Shaping of Chinatown Cuisine
In seven short paragraphs, Professor of Anthropology Merry White’s Boston Globe feature provides a solid grounding in “How Boston’s Chinatown Dining Scene Came to be.” Peking Duck anyone? Read about “150 Years of Asian Food”. Source: BostonGlobe.com 06.10.15
The Secret to Japanese Coffee is in the Detail, Says MET’s White
This May, Ogawa Coffee will join Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts in the competition for morning caffeine dollars in Boston’s Financial District. As Professor of Anthropology Merry White told the Boston Business Journal, the new chain may add some special ingredients to its brews. “The first thing a foreigner will experience (in a Japanese coffee shop) […]
MET anthropologist addresses the question, “Does Seaport have soul?”
More than 10,000 people call it home and condos sell for millions, but is Boston’s burgeoning Seaport District really a neighborhood? That’s the subject of a recent Boston Globe piece featuring Merry White, professor of anthropology at MET and BU’s College of Arts & Sciences. In White’s assessment, “You need people living there over generations […]
Dr. Merry White Featured in the Boston Globe
Boston University Professor of Anthropology Dr. Merry White talks to the Boston Globe on how her acclaimed cookbook Cooking for Crowds came about, how Julia Child saved one of her stews, and on roasting squab for Jacqueline Onassis.