Tag: Food

  • Nation & World

    Hearkening to herbs

    At the Harvard Herbaria, Steph Zabel is a curatorial assistant who digitizes collections of dried plant specimens. After working hours, she tends living and local plants, running her own herbalism businesses.

    3 minutes
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    A healthy replacement for dieting

    Three specialists spoke to students about the benefits of intuitive eating in an event at Sever Hall.

    3 minutes
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    The leadership of Cesar

    Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.

    4 minutes
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    Color-coded labels, healthier food

    Using color-coded labels to mark healthier foods and then displaying them more prominently appears to have prompted customers to make more healthful long-term dining choices in their large hospital cafeteria, according to a report from Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital

    3 minutes
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    Gripes between bites

    A Pusey Library exhibit, “Dining and Discontentment,” is just one of many at Harvard that illustrate the power of investigating material artifacts in order to understand the past.

    6 minutes
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    Dining in the dark

    Nick Hoekstra, a blind student at the Graduate School of Education, devised a three-course meal for 30 students, an affair called “Dining in the Dark.”

    3 minutes
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    The whys of rising obesity

    A panel discussion held by the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health probed the reasons for the modern epidemic of overeating and its particularly harmful effects on children, who are especially susceptible to food marketing.

    4 minutes
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    How the garden grows

    Thanks to an abundant garden, the Harvard Faculty Club is saving money and producing even better-tasting food.

    2 minutes
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    Fresh storytelling

    While Harvard’s Farmers’ Market is known for transforming the Science Center Plaza into a farm fresh mecca, it also hosts a weekly read-aloud where children of all ages can enjoy stories read by a Cambridge Public Library staff member.

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    Feast your eyes

    Shoppers share their ideas and recipes for making the best usage of fresh summer ingredients purchased at the Harvard Farmers’ Market.

    4 minutes
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    A landmark, that’s no lie

    Pinocchio’s Pizza is a Harvard Square fixture for decades, serving as a late-night standby for generations of Harvard students.

    1 minute
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    Hallmarks of healthy eating

    The Mediterranean Diet has been lauded as a healthy eater’s dream, but it’s still a mystery to many Americans. Greek cooking guru Diane Kochilas and cardiac health expert Frank Sacks — who have worked to enhance the diet’s presence in Harvard’s dining hall menus — visited groups across Harvard last week to share insights and…

    6 minutes
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    ‘Thou shall be inventive’

    Chef-mixologist Dave Arnold and kitchen science author Harold McGee kicked off the third season of the “Science and Cooking” lecture series, looking at both the history and versatility of food.

    4 minutes
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    When microbes make the food

    A Harvard Summer School class spurs learning through food, by examining how microbes — bacteria and fungi — can help as well as harm when they get into food, doing much of the work preparing cheeses, beer, soy sauce, and even chocolate.

    4 minutes
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    Chef to receive Healthy Cup Award

    Jamie Oliver, the internationally acclaimed chef of “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” will be honored by the Harvard School of Public Health for his substantial achievements in working to end the childhood obesity epidemic.

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    The no-diet dietitian

    Forget nutrition labels and calorie counting. Michelle Gallant, a clinical dietitian at Harvard University Health Services, is on a one-woman mission to teach how proper eating means trusting your gut.

    4 minutes
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    Registration open for intuitive eating seminar

    Tired of the endless cycle of deprivation and overeating? Harvard University Health Services is offering an intuitive eating seminar, and registration is open now.

    1 minute
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    Feeding a bigger family

    Growing up in a home of 14, David Davidson was used to big Thanksgiving dinners. As the new managing director of Harvard’s Dining Services, he’s now preparing to feed hundreds.

    4 minutes
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    Service project helps out at holiday

    A food packaging service project sponsored by the Harvard Interfaith Collaborative will be held on Nov. 20, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Student Organization Center at Hilles.

    1 minute
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    Intuitive eating seminar open for enrollment

    Harvard University Health Services’ Intuitive Eating Seminar is open for registration.

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    Harvard Farmers’ Market

    From lettuce to lobsters and everything in between, Harvard Farmers’ Market vendors dish on the fruits of their labor.

    1 minute
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    A cuisine reigns supreme

    Harvard Summer School students sharpened their knives, fired up the hibachis, and went to work for this year’s sixth annual Iron Chef Competition, a showcase of local ingredients and budding culinary talent.

    6 minutes
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    Garden party

    The Harvard Farmers’ Market is back and its offerings are fresher, better than ever.

    2 minutes
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    Farmers markets to return in June

    The popular Harvard Farmers’ Market will return to campus on June 14.

    1 minute
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    A look inside: Dunster House

    Of Dunster House’s three major yearly events, those being its “Messiah” sing, the Dunster House opera, and the spring goat roast, it is the tradition of the roast that sets it apart from the other Houses.

    2 minutes
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    Wholly (and holy) organic

    Harvard Divinity School has a new blessing, a pluralist plot of paradise, in its own community garden.

    4 minutes
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    A look inside: Currier House

    The crest of Currier House shows a field of red, representing Harvard, surrounding a simple golden tree. Within their own communal “tree,” Currier residents have been “greening” the way they live.

    2 minutes
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    ‘Circuits of sense and sensibility’

    A Harvard biologist succeeds in mapping a neural network for learned olfactory behavior, using a roundworm model to trace the dislike of a particular smell to the reaction that avoids it.

    4 minutes
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    A look inside: Dudley House Co-op

    Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept.

    2 minutes
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    More diner than dining hall

    The Quincy House Grille — part of 57,000 square feet of social space renovated or constructed by the College over the past five years — is a popular spot for Quincy residents and their undergraduate classmates from the surrounding river Houses.

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