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...Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy at Boston University and an undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate program in Food Studies at NYU. Though Harvard does not have a formalized food studies program, students can study food laterally through various departments, from Anthropology to Human and Evolutionary Biology. Francesca T. Gilberti ’10, founder of Real Food Harvard College (which is connected to the Slow Food on Campus program), has pursued food studies within the bounds of her History and Literature concentration. “I certainly have found ways to academically shape what I do around food...
...Gilberti! Certo!” Eureka...
...This trip was a shot in the dark: no plans, all instinct. Despite the fact that this escapade was one of many Gilberti family Italian road-trips in which my dad hugged the ancient hillsides at sickening speeds while I doled out peaks of Toblerone we’d purchased at the Autogrill, it takes the award for craziest. Since my grandfather had arrived at Ellis Island on a boat from Naples in 1925, the goal of this reverse voyage was to locate Papa’s birthplace, tool around the town, drink a caffé, and say we?...
...friend quickly forgot our traffic transgression and, assuming the role of chauffeur with my dad squeezed in back, continued in the wrong direction on the senso unico narrow street to the Gilberti residence. He rapped on the door, and out came a woman named Zia Theresa in a housecoat...
...That hot August afternoon, we stepped into The Gilberti Family: The Movie. We abandoned the map, followed a hunch, and let go of reality. After all, that’s what it takes to get out of the ordinary. The next day my stomach recovered, but I will always blame my clean plate phobia on that episode in Italy. Sure, I have a healthier sense of who I am and where I come from, but no appetite for tiramisu for at least the next few decades...