Gastronomy Director Joins Connecticut Public Radio to Chat Kitchenware
Metropolitan College Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Gastronomy Megan Elias recently joined The Colin McEnroe Show to discuss an interesting food topic—what people keep in their kitchen.
Gastronomy Director Offers Lesson on Bygone Refrigerated Dessert
Every kind of food has a history. Food has context, character, and, above all, it has people who love it—otherwise, how would it withstand the test of both taste and time?
Knowing Food: BU MET Hosts Global Gastronomy Conference
From May 31 through June 3, 2023, Boston University’s campus was abuzz with culinary scholars, foodies, and explorers of gastronomic traditions from near and far attending the 2023 Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS).
Gastronomy Director Elias Explains Role of Nostalgia Amid Gas Stove Controversy on NPR
Metropolitan College Associate Professor and Director of Gastronomy Megan Elias isn’t one to shy away from a hot-button issue. And with debates about the merits, drawbacks, and potential regulation of gas and electric induction stoves ongoing nationally, the food studies scholar and cultural historian was invited to make a radio appearance on NPR The Colin McEnroe Show to lend her perspective into why where we cook matters so much to us.
Return to Workplace Makes Lunch Hour More Important, Gastronomy Director Says
As author of Lunch: The History of a Meal, Dr. Megan Elias is an authority on the midday meal. The Gastronomy program director and associate professor of the practice, who has previously noted that lunch was the meal most impacted by the pandemic, was quoted in a recent Boston Globe story regarding the challenges faced […]
BU MET Gastronomy Director Megan Elias Guests on the BBC’s The Food Chain
Dr. Megan Elias, associate professor of the practice and director of MET’s Gastronomy programs, was a featured guest on the BBC podcast The Food Chain. In the episode “The Recipe Collectors,” released March 3, 2022, Dr. Elias—a cultural historian who collects recipes—joins fellow preservationists from Ghana and India to dig into the cultural value of […]
Gastronomy Podcast Opens New Ears to Food Studies
On the podcast Food &, students, faculty, and alumni of the Gastronomy & Food Studies Programs at BU’s Metropolitan College come together to tell stories that illustrate the depth and breadth of food studies, as well as the numerous possibilities the academic field affords. MLA in Gastronomy students Kenrick Mercado and Elizabeth Weiler, who are […]
The Key to Enjoying an Oreo? Nostalgia, According to Gastronomy Director
Popular Mechanics was in search of a quantifiable answer to an uncommon question: What makes Oreos delicious? Students in the BU MET Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy program know that food is both a hard science and a social one, so perhaps it was little surprise when Dr. Megan Elias, who directs the program, […]
Home Economics Historian Elias Weighs in Amid Betty Crocker Controversy
When the Boston Globe investigated a new marketing initiative by Betty Crocker, purportedly designed to encourage women in STEM fields by reconceiving of the kitchen as a home for culinary experimentation, it brought new scrutiny to archaic ideas about gender roles and the kitchen. As the author of “Stir It Up: Home Economics in American […]
Follow the Bread Crumbs: How an 1800s Black Inventor Kickstarted the Industrial Kitchen
A recent Forbes article delved into the life of trailblazing 19th century Black inventor Joseph Lee, who was born enslaved in South Carolina and served as a Civil War blacksmith before finding entrepreneurial success in and around Boston as a baker, caterer, and hotelier around the turn of the century. After the war, Lee traveled […]