A Taste of Many Cultures

How does the American ideal of healthy eating exclude other cultures? That was the question posed to students by instructor Erika Anna BS’13 in a creative writing exercise called “six-word stories.”

“Eurocentric diets promoted over others’ cultures,” one student wrote.

“Only American foods represented as healthy,” wrote another.

A third put it more bluntly: “Others feel their food is bad.”

It gets to the heart of what students explore in Nutri Sci 377: Cultural Aspects of Food and Nutrition. It began as an online summer term course in 2019 and was a fall semester offering for the first time in 2020.

Read the full article at: https://grow.cals.wisc.edu/departments/on-henry-mall/a-taste-of-many-cultures