The Shaping of Chinatown Cuisine
In seven short paragraphs, Professor of Anthropology Merry White’s Boston Globe feature provides a solid grounding in “How Boston’s Chinatown Dining Scene Came to be.” Peking Duck anyone? Read about “150 Years of Asian Food”. Source: BostonGlobe.com 06.10.15
The Secret to Japanese Coffee is in the Detail, Says MET’s White
This May, Ogawa Coffee will join Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts in the competition for morning caffeine dollars in Boston’s Financial District. As Professor of Anthropology Merry White told the Boston Business Journal, the new chain may add some special ingredients to its brews. “The first thing a foreigner will experience (in a Japanese coffee shop) […]
MET anthropologist addresses the question, “Does Seaport have soul?”
More than 10,000 people call it home and condos sell for millions, but is Boston’s burgeoning Seaport District really a neighborhood? That’s the subject of a recent Boston Globe piece featuring Merry White, professor of anthropology at MET and BU’s College of Arts & Sciences. In White’s assessment, “You need people living there over generations […]
Merry White, Professor and Food, Wine & Arts Instructor, in BU Today
The BU Today article “Studying Brahmins, Baked Beans, and Baseball” profiled a course taught by College of Arts & Science Professor of Anthropology Merry “Corky” White. Among the BU students enrolled in “Boston: An Ethnographic Approach” were three students from MET’s Evergreen program, which allows those 58 or older to audit BU classes. The course […]
Gastronomy Professor Merry White on Ogawa Coffee in Boston
On October 24, 2014, the Boston Globe reported that Japanese coffee chain Ogawa Coffee will be making its debut in Boston. In the article, College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Anthropology Merry White explains, “There is a real Boston coffee scene now. It wasn’t true 20 years ago.” Professor White, who teaches in MET’s […]
Professor Merry White Quoted in Film Review
BU Professor of Anthropology Merry White, who also lectures in MET’s Seminars in Food, Wine & the Arts, was quoted in the Boston Globe film review, “Clash of culinary cultures in The Hundred-Foot Journey.” White—along with another anthropologist, a French chef, a French-born university lecturer, a Francophile, and an Indian-American artist—was invited to critique the […]
Dr. Merry White Featured on WBUR
Boston University Professor of Anthropology Dr. Merry White was interviewed on WBUR on her experiences in making multicourse meals.