Honors First Year Seminar: Exploring Food, Drink, and Place

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the relations between food, drink, and place. Food production, circulation, and consumption will be examined critically through examining their local and global import and the assumptions that inform different food systems. Alternatives to industrialized food will be explored through both organic foods and the slow food revolution. Other themes to be examined will be food and identity, social class, and gender in particular. Students will have the opportunity to sample diverse cuisines and to discuss their relation to both place and culture. Field trips will be taken to the Rochester Public Market and to various Rochester urban gardens.