"Let's Eat! The Material Culture of Food,"

The University of Delaware's Center for Material Culture will offer a series of talks, "Let's Eat! The Material Culture of Food," this fall.

Aug. 28: Sandy Isenstadt, associate professor of art history, "Visions of Plenty: The American Refrigerator in the 1950s."

Sept. 4: Jaime Margalotti, senior assistant librarian, UD Library Special Collections, "Cookery, Curatives and Community: The Cookbook Collection in the UD Library."

Sept. 11: Tom Pauly, professor emeritus of English, "American Food and Wine Since 1960."

Sept. 18: David Ames, director of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design, "Fast Food Architecture."

Sept. 25: Bill Deering, assistant professor of art, "Visualizing Desire: A Food Photographer's Romp."

Oct. 2: Deborah Krohn, associate professor, Bard Graduate Center, "Pots and Pans in Renaissance Rome."

Oct. 9: Jennifer Lindner McGlinn, UD alumna, cook, blogger and author, "Living Deliciously as Brought to You on Screen and Page."

Oct. 16: Lauren Brincat and Philippe Halbert, Winterthur Fellows, "Records and Recipes: Food and Drink in Early America."

Oct. 23: Fred DeMicco, ARAMARK Chair of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, "Beds, Burgers, Booze and Cruise."

Oct. 30: David Leicht, regional culinary director, ARAMARK Higher Education, "A Chef's Perspective on Great Food for Great Numbers."

Nov. 6: Perry Chapman, professor of art history, "400-Year-Old Cheese: Food in 17th Century Dutch Painting."

Nov. 13: Anne Krulikowski, supplemental faculty, Department of History, "You Are Cordially Invited: Eating and Entertaining at Rockwood."

Nov. 20: Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women and Gender Studies, "Mr. Peanut, Dandy."

The Shed

The Shed is sort of a permanent farmers market and store; Founders Cindy Daniel and Doug Lipton " sought to create a place where the beauty and aliveness of the complete food cycle—the growing, preparing, and enjoying of food—would become visible, revealing and reinforcing the path from farm to table."

K.S.A.

"According to the U.N., Kuwait has the highest proportion of obese adults in the Middle East, with 42.8% of its population considered severely overweight. Saudi Arabia follows at 35.2%."

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Planetary Supper Club

The idea is to provoke debate about architecture and cities. “These Planetary Supper Club dinner parties are about getting people talking about the events of our time,” says artist and cook Zack Denfeld of the Center For Genomic Gastronomy, who devised the menus for the event, as part of Lisbon's forthcoming Architecture Triennale.... 
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/food-that-will-serve-up-a-serious-debate-8764269.html

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make farming patriotic and ubiquitous, behind homes, hospitals, schools, even prisons.