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 […]
Discovering and Documenting the “Archaeology of Food”
The newly published Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia includes more than 250 entries, which, as the publisher explains, “add depth to our understanding of food.”
Gastronomy Program in Daily Free Press
On November 20, 2014, the Daily Free Press article “BU gastronomy program combines academia with ‘culinaria,’” examined the master’s program in Gastronomy at BU’s Metropolitan College. The program was founded by Julia Child and Jacques Pépin, with academic support from BU College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology Mary Beaudry (currently interim […]