We were thrilled to be part of A & E Network Asia, History Channel’s“The Food That Built Asia” 6-episode documentary about the history, key people, and important moments behind Asia’s greatest foods. We were on…
Food Writing
South Africa’s Culinary History through Cooking, Consumption, and Language
Thanks to the Culinary Historians of New York (CHNY), we received a Scholar’s Grant to research about South African food. The capstone was a presentation we gave on June 9, 2022, for the society. Here…
Travel to Eat: Culinary Tourism
We eat when we travel. But we can also travel to eat. “Culinary tourism,” a term first suggested by scholar Lucy Long describes the idea of tourists experiencing other cultures through food. Food is both…
Ree Drummond on Food, Life, and Family
Celebrity chefs enter our living room, mobile phones, and kitchens through their cooking shows, kitchen and food products, and cookbooks. This is the third post of a three-part series where we share what we’ve learned…
What We Learned about Cooking from Bobby Flay
This is the second post of a three-part series where we share what we’ve learned from watching cooking shows. In this post, chef Bobby Flay is highlighted. Incredibly talented, Bobby has an impressively diverse and successful…
Spoons, Forks, Knives, Chopsticks- What Your Silverware Says About You
What you choose to eat with can give you clues about your personality and who you are. There is a children’s book called Spoon with anthropomorphized utensils. Little Spoon isn’t happy and wants to be…
Food in mid-18th century France: Disney’s Beauty & the Beast
Disney released Beauty and the Beast, a faithful yet fresh live-action re-telling of its 1991 animated classic. Cutting across generations, the film sets an all-time highest-grossing March opening in the U.S., with a $170 million…
Increase Your Literacy and Multiliteracy Through Food
Literacy and its newer, more complex cousin multiliteracy are terms that are used in the teaching world as ways to talk about what skills are needed to communicate. But these concepts are useful to those…
What Creatives Can Learn from 101 Dalmatians
Growing up, we would watch few movies, but when we did, it was usually in the Disney category. A particular favorite was 101 Dalmatians that we watched, partly in terror of the angular-shaped, purple-lipped, aptly-named…
Food for Jet Lag
Air travel takes a toll on your body and spirit. You may be returning from an invigorating hike through the Lake District, or a tranquil week lying in the sun in Waikiki, or a grueling…