Press

Association for the Study of Food and Society Member Spotlight

“Given that it was just pie day (3.14), Alanna Higgins interviews Claire Bunschoten, Abbott Lowell Cummings Posdoctoral Associate in American Material Culture at Boston University, where she teaches a material culture class centered on pie. She shares with us her experience as a post-doc, a bit about her research that centers on vanilla and American-ness, and what has informed her as a public historian and teacher. And, she answers the question: chocolate or vanilla.” March 20, 2024.

Extracting Extraordinary Things

“Claire Bunschoten spent a year at The New York Botanical Garden unpacking the history and culture tied to one of America’s favorite flavors: vanilla.” April 24, 2023.

Learning about the broader contexts of food

“Focusing on topics ranging from North Carolina’s pork industry to school lunches, the College of Arts & Sciences' ‘Southern Food Studies: Food and Race in America’ course is causing some Carolina students to think twice about the food on their forks.” November 25, 2020.

Savoring Southern apples

“Digital research projects in a senior seminar in Southern studies illuminate the history, stories, locations and culture of Southern apples. Students at UNC-Chapel Hill are the first to explore a new collection of papers on Southern apples in the Southern Historical Collection in Wilson Library.” May 1, 2019.