Food Literacy Project
It's the Season for Apple Picking
For some, picking apples from a tree as opposed to off a shelf in a dining hall might equate to unnecessary expenditures of energy. After limited sleep and seemingly endless amounts of reading, this view is, on the one hand, understandable. On the other hand, this means missing out on one of the season’s quintessential experiences.
Allston Farmers' Market Struggles
The Harvard Allston Farmers’ Market—envisioned as part of the University’s outreach into the Allston community—has had trouble attracting customers and vendors.
Free Cheese at Cambridge Queen's Head Pub
We're always fans of free food wherever we can find it. For today's freebie, visit the Cambridge Queen's Head Pub between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. The owner of a Vermont cheesemaking company will be speaking at an event hosted by the Food Literacy Project, and many cheeses made in New England will be available to sample.
Annenberg Top Chef
Freshmen, using ingredients only available in the dining hall, compete to see who has the most culinary creativity, in Annenberg's Top Chef: competitors had 30 minutes to dish out a main course and a dessert entree.
Harvard Top Chef To Begin This Week
Ever had dreams of competing in a culinary competition? Or do you just have a knack for cooking and want to show off your skills? Starting Monday, HUHDS will be hosting its annual Top Chef competition.
New FLP Cookbook Offers Fresh Recipes
Imagine this: you walk into the dining hall, stomach growling, and realize to your dismay that Korean BBQ really has vanished. Instead of reaching for yet another plate of squash, you can now spice up your dining experience thanks to "The FLP Cookbook: A Field Guide to Dining Hall Ingenuity," which may be the answer to your dining hall blues.
Freshmen Take Annenberg Kitchen Tour
There is a pig living in the kitchen at Annenberg Hall. But this pig doesn’t oink or roll in the mud. Instead, it spends its day grinding leftover food and napkins.
Dingman Hosts Cooking Class
Everything has its benefits, even fat. A group of ten freshmen learned this lesson—and more—last night at a vegetarian cooking class, held at the house of Freshman Dean Thomas A. Dingman ’67.
Students Taste Miracle Berry
Under the dim chandelier lights in Winthrop dining hall, students gathered last night to try synsepalum dulcificum—more commonly known as the ‘miracle berry’—a small fruit that makes sour foods taste sweet.
Focus on Food: Chocolate
Students roll and coat chocolate truffles on Thursday as part of a Food Literacy Project event that also included a tour of Taza chocolate factory and a movie screening.
Optional Winter Activities Week 2011
In January 2011, Harvard had its first "Optional Winter Activities Week." Students were able to return to campus a week before the spring semester started in order to participate in a broad range of student-initiated activities.
Chocolate Truffles and Mousse
After tagging along for cheesemaking on Tuesday, we caught up with 12 students on Thursday as they embarked on a chocolate-filled HUHDS adventure. In an Optional Winter Activities Week event organized by the Food Literacy Project, these students learned to make chocolate mousse and truffles.
Focus on Food: Cheese
Matthew Pierce, Sous Chef for Culinary Operations, shows students how to make mozzarella and ricotta cheese on Tuesday as part of the Food Literacy Project's "Focus on Food" series of cooking classes, tours, and movie screenings.
Making Chocolate Truffles and Mousse with HUHDS
Students learn to make chocolate truffles and chocolate mousse during an Optional Winter Activities Week event organized by the Food Literacy Project.
Cheesemaking with HUHDS
As part of the Food Literacy Project's Optional Winter Activities, 12 lucky students spent Tuesday learning about cheese. We caught up with them in the HUHDS kitchen as they learned to make mozzarella and ricotta cheese with Sous Chef for Culinary Operations Matthew J. Pierce.
Cheesemaking with HUHDS
Students learn to make mozzarella and ricotta cheese during an Optional Winter Activities Week event organized by the Food Literacy Project.
Focus on Food: Chocolate
Students participating in the Food Literacy Project's chocolate event on Thursday made chocolate mousse and chocolate truffles under the direction of Executive Sous Chef Brian Corcoran.