Welcome to the blog for Colgate University's interdisciplinary course on food. This is the place to keep up with what students in the course are experiencing in their work at Common Thread Community Farm and through their everyday encounters with food.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

CORE 333: Food

This is the blog site for the Colgate course, CORE 333: Food, a course that examines the cultural, political and ecological implications of food in our lives.  This semester students in the course will be reading a variety of texts that explore these dimensions of food (see list below) as well as working for a few hours each week at Common Thread Community Farm, a local farm that follows the CSA (community supported agriculture) model.  Some of the students in the class will be contributing their thoughts on food through this blog, so please check back often for more insight.


Required Books in "Food"
Harper, Douglas, 2001. Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture.
Ingalls Wilder, Laura.  Farmer Boy.
Lyson, Thomas, 2004. Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community.
Mintz, Sidney, 1986. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History.
Pollan, Michael, 2009. Food Rules.
Steingarten, Jeffrey, 1998.  The Man Who Ate Everything.
Watson, James and Melissa Caldwell (editors), 2005. The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating.
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