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Food & Sustainability Studies [Back To Gallery]

Food Studies & Sustainability students Travel Italy to hunt truffles and pick olives - all while learning how climate change affects Italian agriculture and the history of truffle and olive oil consumption.<br />
Find out more at: http://bit.ly/20r0X3J<br />
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#StudyAbroad #StudyAbroadBecause #Food #Sustainability #Italy
Food Studies & Sustainability students Travel Italy to hunt truffles and pick olives - all while learning how climate change affects Italian agriculture and the history of truffle and olive oil consumption.<br />
Find out more at: http://bit.ly/20r0X3J<br />
<br />
#StudyAbroad #StudyAbroadBecause #Food #Sustainability #Italy
Umbra HSIT 350 History and Culture of Food in Italy students learn the fables and truth behind the history of Pizza before creating their own pizzas under the watchful eye of a master pizzaiolo (pizza maker) from Napoli, the home of the original pizza. <br />
Learn more about the course: http://bit.ly/1PQGUrB<br />
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#StudyAbroad #StudyAbroadBecause #Italy #pizza
Sustainability and Food Production students visit a local synergistic garden to understand the importance of gardening and sustainable care methods implemented in standard synergystic garden practice.
Food and Sustainability Studies students enjoy an introductory cooking class as Italy teaches them how to cook without waste.
History and Culture of food students take a trip to Parma to discover sustainable production practices implemented by larger Italian producers.
History and Culture of Food students learn about the history of tradition and culture relative to the umbrian truffle.
Food studies learn about typical food sustainability practices in Italy as they participate in a cooking class.
Food studies learn about typical food sustainability practices in the kitchen
Food and Sustainability students visit a sustainable farm to learn about sustainable agricultural practices
The History and Culture of Food students visit an Italian covered market
An olive oil workshop.
Students watch the process behind parmesan cheese.
An excursion to how prosciutto is made - and of course they tasted it afterwards!
Students at the gelato workshop
Students on a field to see Dario the butcher.
Students in the woods of Umbria on a Truffle Hunting trip.
Cheese Workshop
Truffle Hunting
Class trip to Montevibiano.

 

 

 

 

 

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