UM: Food Course

Writing on her “View from the cube” blog, Lisa Rudgers – vice president for global communications at the University of Michigan – describes the class “22 Ways To Think About Food,” taught by LSA associate dean Phil Deloria: “As he spoke, Phil showed the next PowerPoint slide: a picture of a green field and a white bucket filled with strawberries. ‘When I was a kid, I picked strawberries in the summer to earn a few bucks. We’d fill six or seven buckets a day in between goofing around and throwing berries at one another. But I remember the migrant workers who slept in their cars, picking alongside us. They could pick 35 buckets a day, because that income was all they’d have to live on.’ It was a personal food lesson about inequality, hard work and putting bread on the table.” [Source]