Informational Session, Monday, Oct. 29, Summer Ecogastronomy Intensive in Florence

Here's a note about the informational session on Monday, Oct. 29. 

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.