image copyright http://www.Eats101.comSince this week is all about food and gardening, it's a happy coincidence that we just learned about a really cool sustainable food-related course here at UNC. Yes, I said sustainable FOOD-related COURSE! Here's the overview:
Since its inception in 1997, UNC’s Honors Seminar in Food and Culture (HNRS 352-001—aka “Eats 101”) has explored cultural, social, economic, and environmental sustainability through the lens of historical and contemporary food practices. Designed as a fourth hour “lab,” the new sustainability section connects students with sustainable food initiatives at home and abroad in addition to facilitating hands on experience with food production, acquisition, and preparation.Awesome!! Students in this course have made site visits all around town (e.g. Carrboro Farmer’s Market, Counter Culture Coffee, Chapel Hill Restaurant Group, Peregrine Farms, Chapel Hill Creamery, SEEDS, Baldwin Farms, Weaver Street Bakery/Market), hosted and prepared a dinner at the first Southeast Regional Food Activist Summit Conference, and even presented at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Special thanks go to Professor Jim Ferguson, who developed this course, and Lauren Wilson, a Food Studies major in Interdisciplinary Studies and French major at Carolina, for bringing our attention to this course!
Holy cow, I wish I was in the course! Learn more about Eats 101 online at:
http://www.eats101.com/
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