Each week:
Food and Travel sections of the New York Times.
A free subscription is available to all City Tech students: Log into Cuny First and follow link University News. (So you have no excuse.)
Week 1 (reading due second class):
Milan’s Expo 2015 Finds Success, but With a Muddled Message
Week 3 (readings due fourth class):
Everyone is responsible for reading the introduction to Lucy Long’s Culinary Tourism (page 1-15). See especially the highlighted sections. It is under “files” on the Course Profile page.
In addition I will ask the following students to define the following terms in class. Give a brief definition that is easy to understand by a City Tech student (don’t just read something you read). See additional notes below. Use the indicated readings. If something doesn’t make sense do a little research on the internet to figure it out. Since you’re presenting as a group figure out who is saying what ahead of time.
Pauline, David, Misha
Artisanal:
Read Artisanal Defined. Define and give us 3 examples of artisanal products and their industrially produced equivalents. Why would culinary tourists care about this?
Week 7 (reading due eighth class):
Week 8 (reading due ninth class):
Cooking up Heritage Harlem post
Tourism Australia Uses Food to Drive Luxury Travel Spending
How the Mast Brothers fooled the world into paying $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate
