{"id":87243,"date":"2024-06-20T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=87243"},"modified":"2024-06-20T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:12:30","slug":"food-studies-director-gives-taste-of-americas-hot-sauce-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/food-studies-director-gives-taste-of-americas-hot-sauce-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Studies Director Gives Taste of America\u2019s Hot Sauce History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/Megan-Elias-nw.jpg\" alt=\"Core Faculty -Megan Elias\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65308 alignright\" style=\"width: 200px; border: 2px solid #138387;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/Megan-Elias-nw.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/Megan-Elias-nw-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>As director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/programs\/gastronomy-food-studies\/\">Food Studies programs<\/a> at Metropolitan College, Associate Professor of the Practice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/profile\/megan-elias\/\">Megan Elias<\/a> is frequently sought out for her specialized knowledge of food history. Recently, she was interviewed by WGBH\u2019s <em>Under the Radar<\/em> as part of a feature on hot sauce. \u201cThere is a really, really long history of use of hot and spicy foods in the Americas,\u201d she said, explaining that the capsicum, or bell pepper, was an American crop that was traded across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the complete story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgbh.org\/news\/local\/2024-04-26\/a-drop-of-ghost-pepper-with-your-clam-chowder-a-new-cambridge-hot-sauce-festival-will-bring-the-heat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WGBH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As director of Food Studies programs at Metropolitan College, Associate Professor of the Practice Megan Elias is frequently sought out for her specialized knowledge of food history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21777,"featured_media":87245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,32,163,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87243"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87254,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87243\/revisions\/87254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}