Join us for another summer of intensive food study at WWU and in Italy -- June 17-19 (WWU, online option available) and June 23-July 7 (in Florence). Enrollment limited to 18. See http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/eesp/summer/swissitaly/index.shtml
Optional excursions, Switzerland and Lopez Island (San Juan islands)
Informational
session for this ecogastronomy intensive is Monday, Oct. 29 in CH 137, 2:30 pm....please spread the word.
Florence,
Italy Faculty-led Study Abroad Info Session
When
Mon, October
29, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Where
College Hall
137
Description
Learn more
about this Faculty-led Study Abroad course in Florence, Italy. Travel with Western students
and faculty while earning credit through a faculty-led study abroad program.
Participants
will:
• Study Italian language and food
culture at the University of Florence’s sensory taste sciences department.
• Learn about food aesthetics and
sensory taste science in the home of northern and central Italy’s “Slow Food”
movement.
• Experience Italian farmhouse cooking
in a hands-on culinary intensive.
• Participate in carbon-offsetting at
Inspiration Farm in Whatcom County (optional).
Here are some
images from 2011.
And, here are some images from 2012.