Gastronomy Professor Merry White on Ogawa Coffee in Boston
On October 24, 2014, the Boston Globe reported that Japanese coffee chain Ogawa Coffee will be making its debut in Boston. In the article, College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Anthropology Merry White explains, “There is a real Boston coffee scene now. It wasn’t true 20 years ago.” Professor White, who teaches in MET’s Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy program, is author of the book Coffee Life in Japan (University of California Press: 2012). White notes that Ogawa’s debut in Boston is significant because no other Japanese coffee chain has ever opened in the U.S.