FX’s ‘The Bear’ Rings True for Food Studies Faculty
A recent BU Today story examined the verisimilitude of the restaurant-oriented FX television program, The Bear, with a few Metropolitan College Food Studies instructors weighing in.
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A recent BU Today story examined the verisimilitude of the restaurant-oriented FX television program, The Bear, with a few Metropolitan College Food Studies instructors weighing in.
When José López Ganem (MET'22) earned his Master of Art in Gastronomy at BU’s Metropolitan College, he learned key lessons on how to unlock the stories food have to tell us about the world.
As crime rates in Boston plummet, BU Today spoke with MET crime analysis expert Dr. Shea Cronin to get his perspectives on the trends.
Ana Calderon (MET’24) recently earned her Master of Urban Affairs as one of Metropolitan College’s City of Boston Scholars. Because her day job, working as the chief of staff for Boston City Councilor At-Large Henry Santana, intersects with her field of study, her tuition was covered by the scholarship. It’s helped her pursue her passion for civil service.
MET Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Shea Cronin recently told the Boston Globe that people sometimes mistakenly conflate incidents like neighborhood drag racing with a rapid rise in crime.
Gastronomy is less a narrow field of study than it is an expansive prism through which scholars can assess all manners and facets of the human world. It’s a field designed to challenge boundaries, and that quality was on display when BU’s Metropolitan College hosted the first-ever Queer Food Conference.
Like so many spaces, the art world is in the midst of massive change. Technology, an evolving post-pandemic economy, and dynamic reevaluations of cultural norms are only among some of the disruptors facing the field.
Global Marketing Management master’s degree student Parth Mutha is believed to be the first BU student with a product available on Amazon—PROMUNCH, the vegetarian snack he launched during the pandemic.