Post Tagged with: "Food studies"

Students at the OHIO Student Farm continue to harvest bounties of produce even as the days get colder and winter months approach. Produce harvested from the OHIO Student Farm is available to students at Jefferson Marketplace, located on campus and close to student housing. Sweet and hot peppers are among […]

You may be more familiar with the name of Barilla from the pasta aisle of your local supermarket. The company, founded in 1877 as a bakery shop in Parma, Italy, by Pietro Barilla, has grown to a multi-national corporation with an annual revenue of more than $450 billion (2015). In […]

As the colder months approach us this fall, the colder-weather crops at the OHIO Student Farm are becoming ready for harvest. A recent harvest at the farm included about a dozen blue hubbard squashes, an heirloom squash variety. From this blue hubbard squash harvest, students learn not only about growing […]

The Food Matters Club, a student organization associated with the Food Studies theme at Ohio University, made a group trip to the Athens Farmers Market on Sept. 22. While many club members attend the market regularly, for some club members, the visit was their first time experiencing the Athens Farmers […]

In addition to her Food Studies theme public lecture on the history of pasta and Italian identity, Professor Karima Moyer-Nocchi led a pasta-making class in Human and Consumer Sciences’ Thomas Stevenson’s state-of-the-art test kitchen in the newly renovated McCracken Hall. Moyer-Nocchi, an Ohio native, has lived in Italy for 30 […]

Dr. David Bell, Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics, and Dr. Theresa Moran, Director of the Food Studies theme, spent the early summer of 2018 giving talks in Umbria and Tuscany. At the 2018 Perugia Food & Sustainability Studies Conference: “Exploring Ethics through Food Choices” held, at the Umbra Institute […]

Margaret Sheskey and Flynt Smathers came to the OHIO Student Farm recently to harvest about 400 pounds tomatoes for the Nelsonville Food Cupboard, a food pantry serving all of Athens County. The Nelsonville Food Cupboard strives to have fresh produce, as well as other fresh staples such as eggs, available for […]