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Food Literacy Project Speaker Series: Dr. Claire Bunschoten on Vanilla and How it Shapes American Life

Smith Campus Center, 2nd Floor, Mt. Auburn Room

Dr. Bunschoten is the Abbott Lowell Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow in American Material Culture at Boston University’s American and New England Studies Program. Her manuscript project “examines the politics and social worlds of vanilla—as an ingredient, a flavor, a fragrance, and a euphemism for race—in the context of everyday life in the United States. Cumulatively it explores how vanilla contains multitudes yet communicates the ordinary alongside normative ideological positions as they are tied to class status, ethnicity, gender, and race in the United States.” Registration is encouraged, as seating is limited.

See-food @ Harvard Earth Day Event

The Science Center Plaza 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Join us on Thu Apr 18 2024 at 12:00 PM at the Harvard Science Center Plaza for a fun-filled seafood event celebrating Earth Day. Take bites of delicious seafood samples prepared by Harvard chefs while learning how to be climate-adaptive sea-foodies, guided by New England's leading seafood sustainability organizations. Experience the fun of blind-tasting games and win surprise prizes! This event is open to everyone, and we encourage you to stay through the whole event. However, tasting samples are limited, so be sure to reserve your spot now!

ReVista Launch Agriculture and the Rural Environment

CGIS South S216 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Join the launch of the Winter issue of ReVista, “Agriculture and the Rural Environment”. This issue covers topics ranging from agribusiness to climate change to new alternative crops. It explores the challenges and accomplishments of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean today.