New York City Food Cultures: From Page to Plate
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Course Details
The course "New York City Food Cultures: From Page to Plate" explores the city's iconic dishes as cultural artifacts, tracing their roots, evolution, and significance in the making of urban identity. The course includes in-class tastings and optional neighborhood fieldwork, offering a sensory lens on the city's neighborhoods and their edible histories.
Course Objectives
- Understanding of iconic New York City dishes as cultural artifacts that reflect histories of migration, identity, and urban transformation
- Ability to analyze food writing from historical texts to memoirs and criticism
- Engagement in sensory and field-based research to explore the relationship between food, neighborhood identity, and social change in New York City
Ideal for
- All members of the community—working, retired, and in between
- Those with a love of food, literature, and NYC history
Academic Divisions and Departments
- Center for Global Affairs
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- Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies
- Division of Programs in Business
- Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality
- Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport
- Schack Institute of Real Estate
University Policies
New York University is committed to maintaining an environment that encourages and fosters respect for individual values and appropriate conduct among all persons. The university's policies include but are not limited to its Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy.
