It's like Harry Potter...

This jetlag is killing me softly. I fell asleep at 6pm (at no accord of my own. It just happened, ok?) and the biggest torrential downpour I have ever seen (or heard) woke me up at 1am. So here I am, sitting in the dark, writing away.

I'm getting my master in Food Culture and Communications and many have asked exactly what it is I will be studying. I finally have my complete curriculum, so here it is:


Social History of Italian Food since 1861
Theory and Interviewing Techniques
The Sociology of Tourism and Gastronomy
Gender in Traditional Small-Scale and Alternative Agriculture
Ethnoecology
Urban Food Systems
Food Design and Place: the Restaurant and the Supermarket
Food, Consumer Culture, and Gender in Postwar Italy
Food and Landscape in Italian Cinema
Food in the City: the Bronx
History of Specialty Products
Culture, Place, and Heritage
The Space of Food in the Indian Diaspora
Semiotics of Gastronomy
Media Studies
Food and Media
Professional Food Writing
Food Documentary
Editing Techniques
Cinema and Gastronomy
Travel and Food Photography
Techniques of Food Photography
Enogastronomical Communication
Food in Popular Culture
Ethics and Aesthetics of Food
Medieval Food History
Social History of Food: Networking, Hierarchies and Identities
Theory and Methods in the Anthropology of Food
Consumption, Food and Culture
Food, Environment & Sustainability
Food Economy
Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
Ethnobiology and Human Ecology
Food Justice
Food Law
Elements of Food Technology
Wine Technology
Molecular Basis of Taste
Wine Sensory Analysis
Food Sensory Analysis
Food Sciences and Public Nutrition
Sense of Smell
Cheese Tasting
Chocolate Tasting
Cured Meat Tasting
Olive Oil Tasting
Beer Tasting
Wine Tasting

Seminars:
Seminars on honey
History of SF
Slow Food International
Education/Event
The Philosophy of Slow Food
Introduction to the Study Trips in Italy
Sustainable Gastronomy

These topics are covered within 10 months and I finish the program with an internship. Wish me luck!!

Oh, have I mentioned the campus is in the agency of the Castle Pollenzo??? I'm going to school in a castle. It's like Harry Potter, but en Italiano!

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