A large chunk of my 2020/2021 was spent working on my thesis for a Master of Liberal Arts in Gastronomy for Boston University’s Metropolitan College. This work will likely feed into later research and included me learning to use Tableau Public. I would like to share the acknowledgments and dedication for the work with hyperlinks added from “Intersections of Print Cookbooks and Information Science: Creating a Workflow to Visually Explore Historical Printed Cookbooks (1872–1920).”
Dedication: I would like to dedicate this work to all of the students in the Gastronomy Program, and to the Kitchings and Keenan families.
Acknowledgments: My readers Karen Bescherer Metheny, Ph.D., and Megan Elias, Ph.D. provided constructive feedback and support on multiple versions of this project over several semesters. This project has also benefitted from the support of the Gastronomy Program’s entire faculty and staff.
The Northeast Popular American Culture Association (NEPCA), The Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), and individual classes in the Gastronomy program provided supportive spaces for me to workshop this and other projects.
The American Antiquarian Society of Worcester, MA, The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and The Boston Athenæum encouraged and supported my use of materials in their collections throughout my time in the Gastronomy Program.
Participants and leadership in The Gastronomy Program’s Student Association (GSA), the Graduate Association of Food Studies (GAFS), and Historians at the Movies (#HATM) created fun and supportive spaces to participate in discussions about the intersections of popular culture, academia, pedagogy, history, politics, and food studies.
This work benefited from my participation in workshops at Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Eating through the Archives: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Foodways held at by Folger Institute as part of the Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Culture project.
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