Traditional foods at IP in Romania (7) Student reflection

Four previous blogs reported on the Intensive Program on Traditional Foods in Romania which took place during the first weeks of February. Students who participated were asked to reflect on their experiences. Written by Rineke Boonen. Saturday the 28th of January the time was come. Four students from Wageningen University replaced Wageneningen for two weeks [...]

Oproep Onderzoeksstage “Smaak van het varken”

Gezocht: Studenten die in de periode mei-juni-juli een onderzoek willen uitvoeren naar aantoonbare verschillen in smaak en smaakbeleving tussen verschillend gevoerde varkens van Piggy’s palace in Bathmen. Het Nieuwe Veehouden van Piggy’s Palace De familie Stegink uit Bathmen is eigenaar en initiatiefnemer van het Piggy’s Palace concept. De familie bestaat uit Erik, Paula , Bart, [...]

Traditional Foods at IP Romania (6) Student reflection

Four previous blogs reported on the Intensive Program on Traditional Foods in Romania which took place during the first weeks of February. Students who participated reflect on their experiences. Written by Hylke Sibtsen While watching the airplanes departing from Schiphol airport take-off from a runway with perfectly white lanes of snow on either side I [...]

Traditional Foods at IP Romania (5) Student reflection

Four previous blogs reported on the Intensive Program on Traditional Foods in Romania which took place during the first weeks of February. Students who participated reflect on their experiences. Written by Cho-Ye Yuen Not knowing what to expect, we arrived in Cluj-Napoca, where it was minus 15 degrees during the day and minus 20 during [...]

Insect food taboo?

Just like last year, the first week of the course Food Culture and Customs deals with what a food taboo is and discusses theories on how a food taboo comes into existence. These theories inform an assignment where students question people for their opinion on insects as food. Clearly, insects are a food taboo in Western countries, [...]

Grassroots Science course with Boerengroep and St Otherwise

Last year’s Food Farmer Fork series organised by Boerengroep and Otherwise was a big success. Some 750 people came to one or more of the 9 evening lectures and activities. The series could also be followed as a Capita Selecta course with the Rural Sociology group. Initially, 40 students enrolled and 20 students finalised the course [...]

Traditional foods at IP in Romania (4)

As argued in previous blogs on the IP in Romania, the category ’traditional’ is socially constructed by social relations based on current perceptions of ‘tradition’. Foods celebrated and successfully marketed now as traditional, a positive category which offsets itself against placeless, mass-produced, standardised foods, can have a troubled social history. Some of these foods came into being as [...]

Traditional foods at IP in Romania (3)

At the IP in Romania (see two earlier blogs) students study various aspects related to traditional foods, from discussions over micro-organisms and hygiene rules to marketing and rural development. The category ‘traditional’ is a social construction, what is considered traditional changes with time and cultural context. Tradition is influenced by new techniques and innovations; which one is allowed [...]

Traditional foods at IP in Romania (2)

At the Intensive Program for two weeks in Cluj-Napoca, students from France, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands study the relationship between traditional foods and micro organisms. Next week, they will receive lectures in micro-biology and they will go on a study trip to the mountains to learn about Slow Food in Romania. [...]

Traditional foods at IP in Romania

Two weeks of Intensive Program are currently in progress in Cluj-Napoca, in the North West of Romania. Coming from 7 different countries, 42 students are learning about Traditional foods in relation to micro organisms. The course is international and interdisciplinary, this week they first had lectures in Sensory Analysis from colleagues of France, Belgium and [...]