{"id":685,"date":"2024-10-17T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/?p=685"},"modified":"2024-10-17T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T21:18:25","slug":"gastronomy-alum-teaches-trailblazing-latinx-food-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/2024\/10\/17\/gastronomy-alum-teaches-trailblazing-latinx-food-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastronomy Alum Teaches Trailblazing Latinx Food Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/foodstudies\/files\/2024\/10\/lopez-ganem.jpeg\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Ganem \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65308 alignright\" style=\"width: 200px; border: 2px solid #138387;\" \/>When Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Ganem (MET&#8217;22) earned his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/degrees-certificates\/ma-gastronomy\/\">Master of Art in Gastronomy<\/a> at BU\u2019s Metropolitan College, he learned key lessons on how to unlock the stories food have to tell us about the world. Now, he is pivoting from student to teacher with his online course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/courses\/gastronomy-food-studies\/#course-METML610\">LatinX Experiences of Farming, Cooking and Eating in the United States (MET ML 610)<\/a>, which will be offered in the coming fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>The course, L\u00f3pez Ganem says, examines the \u201cfundamental force\u201d that \u201cLatin American or Spanish-speaking people\u201d bring to the food culture of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very interested in creating something with the stories of the people that I was hearing about in Latin America and in my own country here,\u201d he told <em>BU Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/new-gastronomy-course-explores-latinx-food-culture-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>BU Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Ganem (MET&#8217;22) earned his Master of Art in Gastronomy at BU\u2019s Metropolitan College, he learned key lessons on how to unlock the stories food have to tell us about the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21777,"featured_media":687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}